I am a timid person and I usually dont talk much but i dont like people who are aggressive towards me. I have a long history of being late to secondary school because i was unhappy going there. One day i unexpectedly had a fight with another black girl in science class.
It was one of those boring science lessons where you must make a poster about what you've learned, hardly anyone cared to complete the task and just messed about. I would rather get the work done then chill for the rest of the lesson because the teacher would bug me about work even if everyone else was on their phone watching youtube.
There happens to be another black girl next to me that didnt sit there talking her head off to another girl, never spoke to her before so i didnt care about her other than the fact she had taken the entire supply of paper to do posters on just so she can make doodles. I just took one while she wasnt at her seat because there was no where else to get paper and she didnt need 200 pieces of paper like wtf. The other black girl noticed and told her when she came back, again i did not care...till she decided to call me a b****. Of course i reacted and tossed her stuff to the ground and i vaguely remember also tossing her book off the desk knocking over her pens and pencils like bowling pins but idk why she sat next to me in the first place. The girl didnt know what to do other than grab my hair so naturally i grabbed hers then eventually we are both on the floor in a cat fight and theres people screaming.
2 minutes later we were separated and i was dragged into the back room to talk to some lady that comes to deal with fights and she was vaguely told the situation because she wasnt there. I saw her frequently because i was frequently late so she didnt like me. She asked me for my story so i told her everything then asked me why i was hitting her so i asked her what she meant and she said "you should have just blocked her attacks" (as if i was expecting the girl to grab my hair like an animal and start a fight over paper). I told her i dont know how to dodge because really i dont know how to dodge someone right next to me grabbing my hair. But she continually said i should have blocked or dodged and she expected me to just take her hits without hitting her back.
I pleaded that i was just doing my work until this girl bothered me and grabbed my hair over one sheet of paper but all she did was ignore me and repeatedly ask me if i threw a book. I had tossed a book but as i confused and upset as i was i didnt see that she was asking me if i hit her first. She asked me over and over so i said yes because i was just confused why that mattered. But honestly it would make no sense for me to throw a book at someone who sat right me, i would have just slammed her face. Of course that wasnt questioned because she wasnt there and just wanted it over and done with. After that we got the same punishment and we even had to be in the same room as her.
Every single year after people would ask why that fight started and all i could say that she was angry over a sheet of paper. They wouldnt understand and i honestly dont know either. Shes was too full of her self.