Bullies-I

School for Puchu was pretty much divided into two broad categories of people. The bullies and the rest. I'll keep the rest for later.
Coming to the bullies. For one, they didn't follow any kind of mathematical formula or equation which satisfied all of them. They existed in all shapes and sizes.(well almost!)
The first bully she encountered was in Prep class. It was a chilly winter morning. Her class teacher was very fond of flowers, and the kids fell over each other to please her with bouquets or small posies. Of course, Puchu didn't want to be left out. Miss had to like me too, she thought. So she asked her mom to make her a nice bunch of flowers from the garden. Like all moms, Puchu's mom dutifully woke up early the next morning and plucked flowers from the garden and arranged it into the most beautiful bouquet ever! But a thorn from the rose bush pricked her finger as she handed over the flowers to a ever grateful Puchu.
Puchu would still tear up over this incident years later.
Puchu hurriedly gobbled up her breakfast and grandpa dropped her off at school. In her excitement, she couldn't quite decide when to make a grand show of presenting the bouquet to her teacher. At that very moment, the bell rang for the morning assembly and she grew more flustered. A last moment decision she made in great haste.
She left the bouquet on the teacher's desk and ran out to join her friends.
Throughout the assembly, she could hardly keep still; she kept imagining her teacher's reaction to the most beautiful flowers in the world.
Assembly that day was probably the longest ever in Puchu's life. She rushed back to class as soon as it got over. Teacher also came in with the attendance register. She saw the bouquet, and her reaction was exactly as Puchu had imagined in her mind. Puchu made a mental note to give her Mum a thousand kisses when she returned home!
Teacher looked up and asked the class about the owner of such a pretty bouquet of flowers. Puchu stood up shyly, because this was the very first time she'd done something like this. Out of the blue, LP stood up and yelled, "Miss, I got it." Now, LP was one of the kids who regularly gave Miss flowers. Each day she would get a rose or a lily and make a huge show of presenting it. Of course Miss believed her. Puchu was so shocked, she didn't even protest. But she had to do something about it!
She couldn't let all that effort of Mum go to waste, could she?
In the lunch break, she confronted LP. It was the bravest thing she had done, ever. LP actually had the audacity to claim credit for the bouquet and called Puchu a liar and actually pushed her away rudely!! Puchu decided that it was a bad world afterall. She would take her own time to serve sweet revenge; but she never got a chance anyway.(Though reliable sources claim that Puchu still hasn't forgiven LP.)
LP flunked the Prep class exams, and left the school that same year. Oh, and Puchu never asked Mum to make a bouquet again for a teacher. She decided that Mum's mornings were better spent sleeping.
P.S She did give her Mum a thousand kisses that evening though :)