Kay got another message as she was
leaving for school.
unknown number: You’re so ugly.
She put her phone back in her pocket
and set off for the bus stop. There
were more messages every day now
and it was really getting her down. She
didn’t know who it was or why they were picking on her. It might be more than one person. They
kept changing names. The phone beeped again.
candybear76: freak!
She’d always got on well with everyone and she couldn’t think why anyone would do this to her.
Now her friends were avoiding her. Becky was the only one who’d stayed by her. They’d been
friends since they were six. The phone beeped again. I’m not going to look, she thought. But what if
it was Mum? She looked. It was a comment on her Facebook profile picture.
princesspusheen: Stop taking photos of yourself. No one wants to look at you. Loser!
Her heart was pounding now. She turned her phone off. She’d tried to delete the posts and block the
user but they kept coming back with a different name. Becky thought it must be a hacker. Kay had
sent messages to the sites telling them what was happening but they’d done nothing yet.
Becky was waiting for her at the bus stop. 'Hi, Kay, are you all right? You look terrible!' 'No, I’ve been
getting those stupid messages all morning. I’ve got to do something, Becky. I’m starting to go mad.
Do you think I should go to the police?' 'Well, you could try,' said Becky. 'But I heard they won’t do
anything. And besides, he’s probably using anon.com. Hackers use that site to hide their identity so
the police will never be able to find them. Anyway, I wanted to tell you, I think I might know who it is
...' Just then the bus came and they got on.
There were lots of kids from school on the bus. Kay felt they were all looking at her. Julie McGann
was whispering something to her friend. They both started laughing. Kay and Becky sat down. 'Who
is it?' asked Kay. 'Shh! He’s sitting at the back. Don’t look!' Kay looked around. Ollie Jones was sitting
on the back seat. He was looking at his phone. 'But why?' asked Kay. 'Well, you did just finish with
him, didn’t you?' said Becky. 'What? We weren’t even going out,' said Kay. 'And I don’t even like
him.' 'Yeah, well I heard he really liked you.'
That day at school was terrible. When she didn’t have classes with Becky no one would sit next to
her and everyone kept looking at her then looking away. She should have left her phone switched off
but she didn’t. She couldn’t stop herself from looking at the messages.