I study in an all-girl Christian school. Unfortunately, that does not keep it from being hit by the Twilight craze. So a lot of my classmates have become fans of the book, but most of them are sane and I get along with them perfectly fine, even with a few serious fangirls. There is one girl who I absolutely cannot stand.
For all intents and purposes I will call her Princess - pretty much because she acts like one.
Princess has spent a lot of her life (and every summer) living in France. Normally I would find that cool or interesting, but she brags about it way too much and is a total Francophile (she wears a beret, namedrops French celebrities, etc.). What annoys most of us is when she shows off that she can speak a little French (again, would be awesome if she wasn't such a showoff).
So when the Twilight craze hit our school, she of course went right into reading it. It annoyed me that she would run up to random classmates and ask them, "Have you read Twilight?" and when they half-heartedly answer "Yeah", she goes,
"I read it! Both the English and the French version. Did you know that they don't translate their names? Like Jacob Black stays Jacob Black and not Jacob Noir."
An anti friend and I were laughing about this one day, where she said, "I bet the French version of Twilight is called Toilette." Lame joke, I know, but we laughed anyway.
Unfortunately, little miss Princess heard this and stormed up to us, holding a French translation of Twilight. Their cover is the same, except it's called Tenation or Temptation in English. She started ranting to us about how we should respect such a holy book and that we were sinning by making fun of it. (What do you expect from a shallow Catholic schoolgirl?)
So I said, "C'mon, Princess, we were just joking." Of course, this never wins over a rabid, so she swore in mixed French/English and maturely shoved me from my chair and onto the ground. Luckily, a nun entered the classroom at this moment and took her away to "have a talk". We overheard her defending herself by repeating "It's a holy book!"
Sometimes I don't understand how someone can be multilingual but can also be... this.
Anyway, today was our last day of school before the Christmas break, and it was already dismissal time. I'm heading towards the exit, when I realize that someone is closely following me. Forget the suspense, yeah, it was Princess. Y'see, she's extra girly. Being in a Catholic all-girl school, we're required a uniform and black shoes - hers have a hundred inch heels. And she's wearing those fake stick-on sharp, long nails.
She's pretty much boiling mad, probably trying to get revenge for my getting her in trouble with the nuns a few days earlier. She's holding the same French Twilight in her hand, her "holy book". She says, "I hate you." I try to ignore her and greet Merry Christmas to a friend passing by. Then she shoves me in the back and I stumble over, but regain my balance. I shout, "Hey, stop that!"
She starts hitting me with her French Twilight book, screaming something along the lines of "YOU'RE AN IDIOT FOR NOT LIKING TWILIGHT! YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS OF BELLA! YOU'LL NEVER GET IT! BLAH BLAH EDDYKINS BLAH BLAH!"
A few people have stopped to stare, others trying to come near to help me but not get hit by her book. I try to defend myself by holding my hands up to my face, but that just hits the book out of her hand. With nothing else, she starts scratching me in the face with her fake nails.
I stupidly open my eyes for a moment when her fingernail comes into my right eye. I get this horrible, horrible horrible stinging feeling, and my right cheek felt sort of wet. I don't know where the fangirl ran off to, I was sort of crouched down and too panicked to open either of my eyes. I put a hand up to my eye and can't tell whether it's wet from blood or tears, but from the gasps and screams from bystanders I figure I'm bleeding. Two friends then help me up and bring me to the clinic. I learn later there's this huge, deep and infected gash across my eye - it'll heal in time, but it's pretty damaged.
So now I have this gauze pad over my eye. It only stings a little now, but I can manage. What sucks is that it's currently a school break so I can't go to the principal and complain, but my mom is planning to contact the fangirl's parents somehow.
Moral of the story: Twilight makes my eyes bleed in so many ways.
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Re: My eye is bandaged up because of a fangirl. « Reply #3 on Dec 18, 2008, 10:50am »
PuzzleChick: Yeah, I was scared I'd be permanently blinded. I was just a sobbing mess by the time I got to the clinic, thinking it was true. But don't be too scared to leave it, we antis are always hanging around to be with you.
Starry: Thanks for the cookies. They are delicious. C:
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Re: My eye is bandaged up because of a fangirl. « Reply #7 on Dec 18, 2008, 11:35am »
The mom of one of my good friends is head of the school's "family council". I've already told her about it and she promises to help and get that girl what she deserves, but my own parents aren't sure about going as far as reporting it to the police.
The mom of one of my good friends is head of the school's "family council". I've already told her about it and she promises to help and get that girl what she deserves, but my own parents aren't sure about going as far as reporting it to the police.
You should definately report it to the police. It's a serious crime. I mean, you could have lost your eye!
Re: My eye is bandaged up because of a fangirl. « Reply #9 on Dec 18, 2008, 11:46am »
O_O
What the...?!
No. No, you need to report this psycho to the police. That is assault. That is not right. And I think there needs to be some serious compensation here.
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Re: My eye is bandaged up because of a fangirl. « Reply #10 on Dec 18, 2008, 11:54am »
Yeah, I think you're both right. We've just been a little scared of anything happening to me any more. But I've convinced them to go to the police first thing in the morning - sort of because it's 1 A.M. here right now. But I do have witnesses, not just my classmates, but also the school nurse since she saw me with my eye still bleeding.
Yeah, I think you're both right. We've just been a little scared of anything happening to me any more. But I've convinced them to go to the police first thing in the morning - sort of because it's 1 A.M. here right now. But I do have witnesses, not just my classmates, but also the school nurse since she saw me with my eye still bleeding.
And you've seen a doctor, right? That should also help.
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Re: My eye is bandaged up because of a fangirl. « Reply #12 on Dec 18, 2008, 12:08pm »
Yes, I have. Both my parents are doctors, so we had all the medical items needed right in our house. One I had a temporary bandage on, they brought me to an eye doctor friend who got it to hurt much less and gave me a proper gauze pad. It was all extremely convenient.
Otherwise I would've had to be driven to the hospital holding tissue over my throbbing bleeding eye.
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Re: My eye is bandaged up because of a fangirl. « Reply #13 on Dec 18, 2008, 12:31pm »
Im so sorry! I hope you get better soon! The Twilight fangirls are scary!!! What ever happened to freedom of speech? Well, where ever it went, someone find it!!!!! Hope ya get better soon! ^_^