BULLYING She gasped for air between sobs. Tears from her wide, moistened eyes streamed unchecked down her pale brown cheeks. The tears tasted brackish to her lips, with a significant tint of bitterness in them: bitterness that she felt and directed at the others for putting her in such a miserable and pitiful condition as she was in that day; Or always, for that matter. Tears blinded her eyes as a new surge of emotion …showed first 75 words of 720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 720 total…where she belonged. Not in a foreign land and amongst natives who had no places in their hearts for people like her. A huge lump appeared in her throat, which hurt unbearably. She would always remain the 'brown and piteous' Naseem-the target to everyone's bullying. An unbearable pain of grief ached in her heart. There was no answer to the turbulent emotion welling in Naseem's chest. It was true: she had no one and nothing.