There's this girl Katherine, about a year older than my sister, but in all her dance classes, and one encounter with her would let you know she's a bitch who needs to be slapped more often.
(relaying this story from my mother;)
Today, at a dance rehearsal, mother number four was attempting to persuade Katherine to get to her place on stage. she touches her shoulder and points, and Katherine immediately goes:
"DO NOT PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME MY DAD IS A LAWYER YOU DO NOT TOUCH ME." To which my mom walks up to her, being a woman who takes no shit, "shut up and get moving."
Not used to this kind of treatment (authoritative) she does as she's told.
Now, today, my mother gets an email from one of the other dance moms who is concerned for my sister, Moira. It seems that Katherine was particularly nasty with her yesterday, and the mother was emailing because Moira seemed very upset afterwards.
Moira, very unlike me, is quiet and very sweet, wouldn't hurt a living thing other than my brother. She doesn't take any of his shit, but she will take and take and take from anyone else. This is why I'm very concerned about what might happen if she were ever to be bullied.
My mother is confused because my sister, not wanting to concern anybody, hadn't said a word about it. So she asks another dance mom who she's close to, and finds out this little shit Katherine made Moira cry. Because her makeup was messed up! This 13 year old girl picked on my younger sister, because her eyeshadow was smudged, and it was supposed to be different for that dance number or some shit.
What the hell?
And of course, my sister, being the kind of person she is, doesn't retaliate at all, but instead ignores it until it hurts her enough to make her cry.
I will never, ever ever, understand why people are so mean. Like, I wouldn't feel so bad if my sister was confrontational. But she's literally just the nice quiet girl. She's not ugly either, so I couldn't imagine what Katherine decided was the best line of verbal attack.
To end this story, I'd like to say that I genuinely hope that at middle school next year she's taught her place.
You do not disrespect people doing their job.
You do not bully others to tears.
You do not threaten people with your father.
Get beat up, Katherine.