You’Re Not the Boss of Me

By Ranarda Nash

Alex is a young student in Elementary that’s being bullied by a much older student. Jessica been bullying Alex for a long time. Alex takes the bullying for a while then decide that it’s to much to deal with. Alex never told anyone about her being bullied, Alex breaks down after the last incident. She ran away from home so nobody could find her. After searching and searching for Alex her parents finally found her three days later but not in the way that they wanted her to be. After getting her back home and nourishing her back to health, her parents transferred her from her long time child hood school leaving her sad. As Alex attend her new school she begins to like it and meet new friends. Alex cousins attend school with her, after months of being at her new school she learns that her cousin is being a bully. Alex cousin being a bully lead up to a school shooting leaving the staff and his parents in tears !!!!!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796080957

Ranarda Nash

Author Ranarda Nash Born and raised in Baton Rouge Louisiana Mother of four, one Grandson at the time with an amazing fiancé my gift and passion is writing I’ve written nine Books with this Book being the latest one my goal is to reach and encourage many folks as possible

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Chapter One

This summer has been a long summer but a very good one, I’m still not ready to go back to school just yet. When I was in the Third Grade, I was excited about going to school. It seems like the closer I get to Middle School the kids get mean to me. I do good at ignoring them though. My sister was going to school with me, so it wasn’t that bad because she looked out for me. Next year I’ll be in the fifth grade and I can’t wait I will soon be in Middle School. My sister will be going to Middle School next year leaving me all alone. I’m a big girl I think I could make it without her. When we get in an argument, she always tell me she’s tired of being my body guard. I love my mean sister, but we just stay into it with each other, and the fact that it’s just me and her makes it even worse. I have to deal with her all day. I really love my big sister so much. My Momma doesn’t let our fussing get on her nerves, she just ignores us and tune us out she always tell us we will figure it out. But she will not allow us to fight one another.

I’m here by my Auntie house keeping my cousins’ company. My Auntie is one crazy lady she’s always cracking jokes about everything, she’s nothing like her sister which is my Momma. My Moma always trying to be serious about everything she cracks jokes every now and then. I must admit she’s a pretty good Mother she’s just a strict one. She always tells us we’re going to thank her later from being strict on us, and she’s probably right. I just don’t see her needing to be strict on us we never ever do anything extremely bad. Sometimes I wish we had a big brother. My sister is okay, but I just wish my Mother would’ve had more kids, she always tell us she doesn’t want anymore kids. This lady is acting like we just some bad kids but were not and we’re older kids. I was so heart broken when her and our Father split up, it seems as though they were the perfect couple, I guess not after all. They still have a good relationship I guess for us, my Daddy comes by the house and have dinner sometimes. We be so happy when he comes by for dinner, he never brings his new girlfriend with him. He said he doesn’t want our Mother to feel bad. I’m glad he takes our Mother feelings into consideration.

Time is really passing we have a week left before were back in school and this will be my last year in Elementary it will be good bye Elementary hello Middle school. I just hope they don’t try to treat us like big kids, because we will be just coming out of Elementary, We don’t know all the big things yet but I’m quite sure they will be more than happy to teach it to us.

We’re headed out on a road trip with our parents, we are so happy that they both is taking us on a cruise, they took us shopping we got so many clothes. My Daddy even brought my Momma some clothes and a watch, I’m beginning to think he want our Momma back. I sure hope that they get back together they were so much better together. Sometimes his girlfriend gets mad at him because she thinks he spend way too much time with us and our Moma. I don’t think it’s so much of us she’s really talking about him spending time with Moma. But they don’t do nothing that’s not inappropriate well I guess not around us, I’m not trying to find out I’m just enjoying both of my parents. Momma do seem more happier when Daddy is around, I will be glad when she finds her someone to deal with. Maybe she won’t be so dang on rough with us, she would have someone to keep her occupied. My friend said her Moma is like our Moma too and she don’t have a man neither, maybe those women just need to get them a man. I’m going to pray hard that they find one right away.

It’s been three days since we’ve been on this cruise and were really loving every minute of it, we’ve taking so many pictures. I can’t wait to upload them on my Facebook page to show my friends where we took our vacation at. We go on a trip every summer I’m loving it. We only have one more day left here, and then we headed back home. I been praying that the days pass by so slow because we’re having the time of our life. My Daddy been smiling since we been here. I’m glad he’s enjoying his self to as well as we are. Nobody seems to be ready to go back home but we have to go. Hopefully this school year pass by fast so we will be back on a trip. We always take 2 trips a year. Our next trip will be toward the end of the year and I ‘m ready, already and we haven’t even came off this trip.

We’re on the way back home, now it’s time to go get the rest of our school supplies. My Moma and Daddy got all of our uniforms already, we only have our shoes and supplies. I don’t know what kind of shoes I really want, our Moma be fussing because she say we always getting those expensive shoes trying to keep up with the other kids but that’s so true. We be trying to keep up because if we don’t the kids will tease us, and I don’t want that to happen. The kids tease you about the least little thing, but we know that wouldn’t happen to us. I have so many friends and they don’t let anyone mess with me. I’m thinking about being a cheerleader next year because all my friends are going to be one and I don’t want to be left out, and plus I know how to dance so it will work out just fine. We’re all going to the same Middle school which is the one my sister going to. I think everyone goes to that Middle School. That’s our neighborhood Middle School so that’s convenient for all the kids in the neighborhood. I think once I get to Middle school, I’m going to participate in a couple different sports. I just like to stay active, I get really bored quick, even my Moma knows if I don’t have nothing to do, I’ll start picking on my sister and sometimes with my Moma until she be threatening to whop me. That’s the only way I straighten up. I’m glad I’m the baby because I do get away with a lot from my Moma and my Daddy. My Daddy really let me have my way.

My Daddy and his girlfriend broke up today, he came by and was telling Moma and I over heard them talking. I think Daddy and Moma going to try to get back together. My Moma trying to act like she doesn’t want them to get back together but she’s always making her self available for him. It’s not a coincidence that she’s always available to chat with him. That woman can be at work and if he calls, she’s going to find a way to talk to him even if she has to go to the restroom, because she tells us that she talks to our Daddy while she’s at work. But that lady has the nerves to tell us it better be an emergency if we call while she’s at work. We be laughing at her because if we call while she at work, soon as we hear her voice we have to hurry and say Moma nothing wrong and then we proceed to go ahead and tell her what we want, and there she go screaming talking about if you’re not dying text me or it can wait until I get home. I be saying alright Moma stop trying to get an attitude and she be saying y’all better stop playing with me little girl. She a mess but we love that lady and we have the same love for our Daddy because he’s a good Daddy. He does just as much as she does. He love us unconditionally.

Today my sister and I went to the hair dresser and got our hair done, our hair is so beautiful we can’t wait to go to school on Monday morning. I’m surprised my Moma letting my sister wear her hair down, she never let us wear our hair down. My Moma always keep plateaus in our hair, but I’m glad she did different with my sister because people would’ve been teasing her so much, she probably would’ve got into a fight about her hair. Whenever i try and ask her why i still wear pony tails she always say because I’m not grown. I be like Moma I know I’m not grown but you can drop the pony tails I’m getting older now. My Moma doesn’t be trying to hear that mess. I don’t even try to argue with her because it just makes her very angry and then I might be wearing pony tails until I’m twenty one years old, that lady doesn’t play at all. My Moma say she’s so protected of us because her Moma was like that with her and her siblings, I be looking at my Moma like but Moma we’re totally different from you and your siblings. Then sometimes I look at some of the other kids that goes to school with us, and they pretty much do whatever they want. Them kids be smoking at school being disrespectful. I be thinking to myself who in the world is raising these dang on kids, they really doing all kinds of things.

I would’ve never thought Elementary kids would do such things that I’ve seen and heard. I try to stay away from trouble kids. Not that I think I’m better than anyone else, I just don’t be wanting to get in any trouble. Trouble is easy to get in but hard as I don’t now what to get out of. My Moma always says if you make your bed you will lay in it. At first, I had no clue what that lady meant, but as I get older, I’m beginning to see what she’s trying to tell us. My Moma talks to us as though we’re teenage girls. She always says she not going to treat us like babies.

I asked my Moma can we have a little sleep over, lord if looks could kill I would’ve been dead. That little lady can be so mean at times. She always say we can’t have kids sleep over because she doesn’t know how other people parents are raising them. That make sense, but she doesn’t have to worry about us being followers are changing up on her. We already know what our Moma will go for and what she won’t go for. She reminds us every day of what she expects out of us. When we were much younger, we knew that if she took us somewhere, we better act right are she was going to spank us where ever we acted up at, she didn’t care if it was at church, we were getting it a whopping.

Chapter Two

School has now started I’ve met some new friends, they are very smart and sweet. I sure hope my Moma starts letting our friends come over to our place. These girls are very intelligent, so I know she shouldn’t mine at all. I asked my sister how she like Middle School she said she loves it. We both loving our schools. Last year I was beginning not to like school, I notice one of the girls that didn’t really like me isn’t here this year and that’s a good thing. That girl would come to school trying to boss everyone the teachers would have to get on her about trying to boss people around and I tried to stay out of her way. I bet she’s somewhere else being bossy. I even tried to talk to her and ask her why she was being so bossy she said she like being a bossy person respect her mind with her being like that. She also has a brother too, but her brother is not like her at all. Her brother is on the honor roll. I haven’t seen neither one of them I’m praying there’re gone somewhere else. For some reason the teachers are extremely mean this year, I guess since I’ve made it to fifth grade, they are getting strict on us, we’re still in Elementary we’re not big kids just yet. I hate when you’re a good student, but the teacher is still mean. They don’t have to be mean to all the students just to get their point across. I sure hope they loosen up in a couple weeks. They’re going to have me scared to even ask a question are even talk to anyone in class, I guess we shouldn’t be talking in class anyway. I follow all the rules because I don’t want the teachers to have to call my Moma for nothing at all. One time my sister was cutting up at school and her teacher called, our Moma took off from work just to come to the school and whop her in front of the whole class. She didn’t want to go back to school, but of course she didn’t have a choice. Now you can’t pay her to act up at school she been doing good ever since that incident happen.

I thought Jessica and her brother Chad was gone to another school, I was wrong they are back at school. Jessica is in my class this year. Now I’m ready to get this school year over with. This going to be a long school year for me. I never ever was in Jessica class and I would always say I was glad she wasn’t in my class, I was glad I didn’t have to deal with her. I would see her and keep going. But I always heard bad things that she was doing to other kids at our school. I’m just going to stay to myself and try not to make eye contact with her. I don’t want to be bothered with her for nothing. They shouldn’t even have her here in Elementary she’s fourteen years old she’s way too old to be in class with us. I just pray that she doesn’t start messing with me. I can’t wait to get home and tell my sister that she’s in the same class as me. I don’t think she was ever in the same class as my sister, if she was my sister never said anything about her being in her class. Then my teacher got her sitting right on the side of me. I’m so nervous with her sitting next to me. I’m going to go home and pray hard that she doesn’t bother me and that this year will past by so fast. I’m going to just be extra nice to her because I don’t want to get on her bad side. I often wonder why she is so old in Elementary, I guess she’s not smart as all the other kids, but her parents should’ve got her some help way before now, that girl going to probably be twenty one years old getting out of school.

Thank God it’s the weekend I couldn’t wait to the weekend get here, Jessica had my nerves so bad and she haven’t even said anything to me yet. But I’ve heard so many of the students talking about how bad she is. Normally when kids be bad like that they mess with any and everybody. When I told my sister, Jessica was in my class she said please don’t show no eye contact with her, and always be nice to her. She said when she’s talking about someone make sure I don’t laugh and egg her on because she would want me to