“ Zachary! You HAVE TO get dressed!! ’’ I yelled while stuffing my egg and cheese breakfast sandwich in my mouth. “ OK OK OK!!! I am packing my bag FIRST! ’’ He screams. I have a family of 6. Now that goes on hard ESPECIALLY when we have guests over with big family’s to. I am Madison, and just to let you know I don’t have any thumbs and yes that feels normal to me but usually not to other kids. I also have a twin sister named Alayna and two brothers, Jonathan and who I was yelling at earlier Zachary. Adding to that I also have two dogs named Tabby and Max. We are all dressed and packed up ( Exped for Zachary he is not dressed. ) Me, Alayna, and Jonathan are eating our breakfast and then going to pack our bags. Today is a big and special day because……
Me and my siblings are all going to a new school called Airpols High today! But we better hurry up, we are getting on the bus in 5 minutes so we will meet you at the school. “Come on Madison!!! Hurry up grab your bag and get in the on the bus or it is going to leave without you!’’ Alayna yelled while running to the bus. “Coming!” I say. Our mom is on the bus with us so she can say goodbye to us. As we are on the bus Zachary is saying how nervous he is while me and Alayna are talking about if we are going to be in the same class. We pull up into the school parking lot and our mom kisses us goodbye. “Love you and have a good day!’’ She says while waving out the window. “Love you!” We all say at different times. We are at the new school and the bell is about to ring when another ten year old girl stops me and says “ Hey, do you know where Mrs. Loren’s classroom is?’’ “No sorry I am new’’ I said. “O you are me too. I am Isabella.’’ She says in a shy voice. “O that’s a cool n’’ and right before I could finish the sentence… **RING!!!** and there goes the bell “sorry I better get to class’’ I say as I walk away feeling a bit sorry. I never thought I would be stopped while in a new school, and as I was thinking about that in my head I herd “Come on Madds were in the same class!’’ Then I said “ok be there in a sec!” Alayna starts walking towards Mrs. Filons classroom and when we walk in together we see 23 other boys and girls in the classroom.
As the door closes the teacher looks at us and says “Hi! You must be Alayna & Madison!” We both smile feeling shy and way more nervous than we did on the bus. Alayna puts her back pack in her cubby and I follow to do the same. We sit at our desks hoping nobody will notice that we are new students in the class. Mrs. Filon tells the class it is time for morning meeting and that is when I gulp. She claps her hands three times and the class is silent. “Ok class we have two new students today so please be welcoming and kind to them on their first day.” She says in a graceful voice. Then she asks if we would like to introduce ourselves and I stand up. Everybody looks at me and I say “Hi my name is Madison. I have a twin sister, a 13 year old brother and a 5 year old brother too. I was born in Los Angeles and I love to play soccer with my family. ” Alayna is just as shy as me then I sit back down and she stands up as I whisper “ you got this ” so she says “Hi I am Alayna I am actually Madison’s twin sister, I love to climb trees and do cool obstacles and was born in Los Angeles.”
She sits back down and takes a deep breath and it sounds like she wanted to run out of class. We sit next to each other and that is a big bonus for us but as the day goes on we start to feel more welcome. When we get to the park it is hard for me to do the monkey bars but I still have a fun time with my sister and I see Zachary for a minute too. But about five seconds later I bump into Isabella the one who stoped me before class started. I looked over my shoulder and there she was! I gasped the tiniest bit and hoped she forgot me. She looked at me like I was familiar and I was. We were at recess time, two ten year old girls at recess time. She said “hey you are the girl that I asked were Mrs. Loren’s classroom is?” And I said “yup that’s me and your name is Isabella?” She smiled and nodded her head and said that before class I didn’t finish my sentence. I say that I was going to say that is a cool name, and tell her mine. She looks at her watch and says the teacher is going to blow the whistle for the end of reces in 3,2,1 *WOOOO!* The whistle blows loudly like Zachary’s screaming, than she walks away and says “Bye Madison!!!” “Bye!” I say back. We walk into the classroom and it is time for Math class. Mrs. Filon is teaching us Decimals for an hour and then it is lunch time. ( 1 HOUR LATER ) Math is over and it is time for lunch and I have my Sun Butter and Jelly sandwich ( sbj ) and after I am done eating I am going back to the park.
This time I am playing with Isabella because we became FRIENDS!!! I felt like I was so lucky to have a friend on the first day at a new school and then Alayna came running over with another girl and I said “Wow Wow Wow! Slow down sis!” She looks at me like I’m weird and says “anyways… Madison meet my new friend Rylee!” Then said “ Rylee Madison, Madison Rylee. I felt so happy for my sister but then I introduced Isabella to them. They both look at each other and smile but Isabella whispers in my ear and said that Rylee looked familiar and says “are you in Mrs. Loren’s class, Rylee?’’ “ Yes are you because you look familiar to me.” She nods her head and says she was thinking the same thing. Me and Alayna leave them alone to talk and we play together to have some sister time. We play on the swing then go down the slide, it is so much fun then when Rylee and Isabella were done talking we tell them to join us and they do. The teacher yells 3 more minutes so we think of what to do with our time and Isabella came up with an idea first. “LET’S PLAY TAG!!!” She yelled in an excited voice.
I tell them that I want to be it and they approve so I give them 15 seconds to run away and not get tagged. I tag Rylee first and then she goes for me but sees Alayna trying to sneak past her and goes for her. She runs like someone is chasing her which is weird because I tagged her very eiselly. She gets her and Alayna looks at Isabella and cracks her knuckles. She cracked her knuckles so hard that I could hear them from 13 feet away. Alayna lonches and Isabella stops with a good move ducking while my sister try’s to tag her. The whistle blows and then once again we are in the classroom to do reading. We pick a just right reading book and then Mrs. Filon teaches us the lesson on what we are going to be doing. After 30 minutes of learning we are reading the books for 30 minutes. ( 30 MINUTES LATER ) It is the end of the day and me and my sibling get on the bus together and chat about what we did in class and Zachary said that he saw me at recess time and I said “Yes Zachary. Yes you did” and he smiles and turns to Jonathan to talk to him and so I talk to Alayna.
“Don’t you like this school?” Alayna said to me “Yes 1,0000 times yes. It is full of nice and friendly people.” I said back. When we got home our mom asked us how our day went and I said “AWESOME” “same” said Alayna. We go upstairs into our rooms and BTW me and sis share a room. I jumped on to my bed and sighed loudly but in a good way. We talk and talk and talk until it is dinner time and then mom calls us down to eat. We are having Teriyaki Meatballs with Rice and it is sooo good that I eat it in 3 minutes straight ( but also I want to keep talking about school. ) After we are all done with dinner *and talking* We come downstairs to watch a Movie called “Three Years Is One Day” but it is not scary. Then after that we brush our teeth, turn out the lights and go to bed. “Good night Alayna” I said in a whispery voice. “Good night” she said back. It is a new day and another day of school so we pack our bags, say goodbye , and shut the door to run on the bus. When we get to school there are only about 5 people there and that is me and you know my siblings. I walk into the classroom with Alayna and Mrs. Fillon is organizing her paper’s and looks at us in deep surprise. “Wow girls you are somewhat early!” She said in a joyful voice. “Yes we wanted to be on time and I also wanted to tell you something. So it would not become a problem later in the year.” I said. “Ok! Let’s do it sister!” Alayna puts her bag in her cubby so I tell Mrs. Filon “Um so I have no thumbs and If anybody notices can you tell them not to make fun of me please?” I say, while showing her my hands. Her eyes grew wide and then they grew small again. “Of course sweetie I will do anything for my students. Yes I will.” I smiled then put my backpack away. About five minutes later the other students started to flood into the classroom like rushing water. After 2 min the whole class was there. But the DRAMA had started at lunch. I got spotted that I had no thumbs and this boy started to spread my word. I started to worry so I told Alayna and she said not to worry or it would bother me more so I tried not to think about it but within the next week or two I was already being laughed at. “Hey NO thumbs girl” they all said. I ran to my classroom and told Mrs. Filon and she had NO idea that I was getting bullied, so she went to Mr. Jayshawn’s Office ( The Princable ) and told him that I was getting bullied and did NOT like it.
So he went out to the hallway, grabbed a chair, and stood up on it and he said “Everybody listen up! This girl from Mrs. Filons class known as… wait what is her name again?” He asked “Madison” I said. “O yeah right. This girl from Mrs. Filons class known as Madison is getting bullied because she has know thumbs! And I just want you to know that you would not feel good if you were getting bullied that way so don’t do it to other people either so do you understand? “Yes” they all groaned. “Thank you Mr. Jayshawn” I say “Any time” he says back. It was in the middle of period 7 so we were on a break for 15 minutes. After that 15 min was over I just did what Alayna told me to do, don’t think about it or else it would bother me more. But it was about 3 months later that I realized that no one was going to stop bullying me.
That night I whispered in Alayna’s ear and said “Do you think this bullying thing is going to stop soon?” “As long as I am protecting you in some kinda way then I think yes. I mean I am not going to leave my twin sister hanging on a bully trial seeking for help.” She whispers back. I smile at her and act like it is going to be fine but really I am not so sure about it.
“Wanna watch a movie?” I sigh hoping that she will say yes. “Sure lets do it!”she says.” After the movie it is time to go to bed. The next day I try for nobody to see me but that tends not to work. “Hey! Put your thumbs back on!” They all say. I roll my eyes at them and Alayna says “Hey stop doing that!” “Well what ya gonna do about it! One of the boys yelled. She rolled her eyes, and cracked her knuckles acting like she was going to fight them. I stopped and turned around, just waiting and looking at her. “ what? ” she asked. “ Alayna ” I sighed. “ This bullying thing is not your problem, it’s mine and you should not be sticking up for me because I need to stick up for myself. I have not been doing any of that and should start to begin to. If I can’t handle it I would really like your help but I doubt that’ll happen so just thank you. ”
“ Thanks for what? ” she laughed. “ For helping me come out of my shell and stand up to the bully’s. You’ve been my inspiration and helped me through a lot, you know how hard it has been for me. ” I say. She smiles and whispers “ bring it in twin sis! ” We hug and it is the best thing in the world. It is lunchtime and at recess I already have an idea on what I am going to be doing to the bully’s, but I’m asking Alayna to be there just in case something bad happens and I can’t handle it. “ Hey Alayna! ” I call. She looks at me and says “ O yeah? ” “ I was wondering if I could use your help because I have an idea of how to fight the bully’s. ” I say while laughing a bit. “ sure what’s your plan? ” she asked. “ I wanna prank them with the most classic plank EVER! ” I say, but that time I actually laugh hard and I also say “ I am going to prank them by getting them on the slide, but when the teacher isn’t looking, then I am going to scream BEE!!! And when they yell ahahaha and try to find it I am going to push them down the slide one by one! ” I laugh. “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ” WE BOTH LAUGH! The prank so worked except for one teeny weeny thing the teacher saw me push them and I pushed them kinda HARD…
“ MADISON! ” she yells. “ That is not very nice at all! ” I shrug, “ Sorry! ” I yell while riding down the slide. Alayna follows me down and says “ Wait it was not her fault! ” It was the bully’s. ” The teacher looked at her strangely and questioned “ how could that be possible? ” “ M – Mrs. Harper Conle, Trever, and Logan were bullying me because I had no thumbs… ” I said. I begged and begged and begged that she would not punish me. She said that would be ok but not to do it ever again so I accepted. Mrs. Harper was talking to the boys, and Alayna joined her to help with it too. “ They actually said OK!!! Well after I said you better not do it EVER again… ” Alayna gasped. “ Well who cares! They said yes!!! ” I yelled excitedly. A couple seconds later I made my disappointed face. “ O know ” she whispered, “ What’s wrong? ” I looked at her, closed my eyes and opened them again. “ Uh.. I.. Well you were doing all of the standing up and I wasn’t. I feel like a BYSTANDER!! I’m sorry, I just feel like I don’t fit in. ” I looked at her, and tried to smile. “ Are we good? ” I ask “ O don’t worry where good! ” She says in a happy voice. After school I tell mom how good the day went. She was very happy with my answer and same with my brothers too.
Later that evening I went upstairs, and sat on my bed with Tabby. I got on my phone and was looking at Instagram, just petting Tabby and swiping through the posts. I was also thinking about what happened at school and then saw a post from Conle, Trever, and Logan, the peeps who were bullying me. I was looking at the post and then saw the title, “ Yay We Are Friends! ” That is what the title said. I got out of bed and went downstairs there where Max was laying, I jumped over him and was looking for Alayna. After seven minutes of looking, I finally found her and showed her the title of the boys post. She was surprised and asked “ when was this posted? ” I was looking at it for a moment and said “ U.. 2 hours ago. ” “ Ok! Then you are fine, personally I think you shouldn’t worry about it. But if it really bothers you then come to me again later. ” she said. I thought to myself and was wondering, they were just teaming up to bully me? I went upstairs and sat on my bed, I sighed loudly and looked around the room.
I was still sitting on my bed, it was 10:00 pm and I was just looking at the post wondering about it and studying it. I stared at it like an Eagle, scrolled down then back up again. I cut my phone off and layed down asking myself should I be wondering about everything so much?
About the Author
Ailey Soriano was born in Oakland California, has a mom and a dad and has a sister. All of her family lives in different places like the Philippines, Fresno, and Santa Maria. Ailey is 9 years old! She wrote this story to tell and show not to make fun of other children and grownups because she thinks it is just not right, and even though you might see them in a different way they are just as ordinary as anybody else. Talking more about her family she has a very big family. She says that if she slit in up into Cousins, Titas ( ant ), and Uncles she has mostly cousins! Right now at the time in 2020 her sister is 7 years old. One of Ailey’s favorite things to do is draw, but it is not about the drawing that she thinks about most, it is the time she puts into it, and the details. But one last thing about this author is that she LOVES to write songs, which is where I think she got her inspiration to write such long stories. Her love of music and writing is unstoppable.