"She must not even care"

One day in high school, I was riding the bus home. It was a peaceful ride. I was reading my book, as I normally did, and keeping to myself.

All of a sudden I heard these two boys, one my age one older, start talking about me. These boys knew nothing about me, other than the fact that I was overweight.

They started talking about how gross it was to look at me, how I must be eating all the time to look like that. Then one of them said something that cut worse and deeper than anything else they had said: "She must not even care that she looks like that."

With that, a single tear hit the page I had stopped on.

Before I could even turn around to defend myself from these verbal attacks, they stood up and got off the bus.

I was left there, young, impressionable, and hurt.

They never knew the impact their words made on me, and they never will.