I was getting bullied so much in school I was bordering on suicidal, I was trying to find a way to handle the task where I wouldn't chicken out.

One day I had just had enough with bullies, I couldn't take it any more. During 10am Recess, my little brother was getting bullied by a kid and I happened upon the situation. So I tossed the kid up against the punched him in the face until he hit the ground, and tell him to get lost.

It was a bit terrifying, because I was a scrawny kid, (SEVERELY under weight) I didn't commonly win school yard fights, but having 2 years on this guy gave me the edge.

At noon his cousin came looking for me. She was bigger than I was, and had a lot more muscle than I did. (Don't mess with farm girls who actually help out around the farm!)

She shoved me up against the locker and start swearing and threatening me for hitting her cousin. I tried to tell her her idiot cousin was bullying my brother and I put an end to that. She didn't care. She was telling me about how she was going to kick my ass and that there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it because you don't hit girls.

So I opened the locker door up into her face and broke her nose.

I got detention, had to stay after school until about 4 pm before I was allowed to leave. I'm at my locker, packing up my stuff when someone shouts my name at me.

There's the girls brother walking towards me in a hurry. This guy was known around school, as he'd been held back several times over the years and consistently kicked out of schools for fighting.

He was also 18 years old. 4 years older than me and much larger.

He pulls a knife as he's walking towards me and starts threatening to gut me right there in the hall.

I stood my ground and told him to bring it on. I was just so god damned relieved when I saw the knife. He was going to take the choice from me and I wouldn't have to agonize over it any more. I hoped that maybe if he killed me there, the town would have to start taking bullying more seriously. It was the first solution I'd seen in a long time. God how I wanted him to do it.

Luckily a teacher overheard the exchange and stepped out to investigate. he broke the situation up pretty quick and sent me home. I was mad at the whole universe over that.