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Mind over body
On a sunny day in Brazil, we see John running and dodging people in the streets. He was running as fast as he could but suddenly he fell, three guys were following him and they were able to catch him. They began to hit him only because he had bumped against them a while ago while walking out of the supermarket. He ended up pretty wounded that day.
After a week, he decided to start training so that he could become a faster person; this is because he didn´t wanted to get caught again by these bullies any more. He trained for 3 weeks and began gaining speed each time. A month passed and he didn´t bumped the bullies any more, but in the second month he saw them bulling a little kid. He went there and tried to become a hero, but he couldn’t, he caught the attention of the bullies, but they remembered him, they remembered how they had caused him problems, so this time they didn´t hit him, but began telling him stuff, making him feel bad and changing his point of views about things. He ended up crying, he had to talk to someone but he didn´t know who, he only had two friends and one of them was in another country. So he decided to go with his other friend, although they hadn´t talked in a long while. He called his friend and told him everything that had happened to him, at the beginning his friend took it as something funny, but he saw it was something serious and decided to help him solve his problem. After that, they began seeing each other after school. They went to different schools but had a point in which they always saw each other at the end of the day. They began planning how they were going to get revenge on these bullies so that they would never bully and one ever again.
They were getting many ideas but after a while they decided it was not the correct thing to do, they had to talk to them to see if they could find out why they were the way they were. First they had to find out how to talk to them so that they wouldn´t get punched or kicked by them. They thought that the school was the perfect place to do that, because supposedly the teachers in there are able to help you and protect you if they begin to hit you or to tell you stuff. So they had the first part of their plan figured out, so now they had to get them together there, but how could they do that without letting them know everything was planned. They kept thinking about this and he remembered how John had been training to gain speed and that could be the perfect place to figure out if he actually gained speed or just trained for nothing. So until that moment they already had 2 of the 3 parts of the plan, they just needed to find out a way to make them talk. They hired an actor, and he played the part of a teacher, so he could talk to the bullies and scold them for their actions, but they wouldn’t know that he was an actor.
They began their plan and everything was going out perfectly, they began chasing John in a park close to the school and he ran directly to the school. His training did actually work because he began to loose them and had to run slower so that they could catch up and not give up. After he got to school he made a feint as if he got in a room and the three bullies got in the room. Suddenly the door got shut. They were trapped. They began to shout and suddenly out of nowhere the actor came out acting as the principal of the school. He threatened them that if he heard that they bullied another student again they would be expelled from the school and then he let them out of the room. After that, they never bothered anyone again.
by:
Guillermo Mortera, Roberto Martinez
