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I collapsed on my bed, putting on my hood and closing my eyes, recounting the events that happened at school. It was the same thing. Every. Single. Day. Getting bullied, for my height and my lisp. Having almost no friends. The one friend I do have is too embarrassed to even talk to me in public.
I sigh quietly, shutting my eyes tighter to avoid letting a tear slip out. I'm pathetic. This is literally the basic fucking high school story. The loser has no friends, a nerd that's bullied everyday. Boohoo. I need to just suck it up. It's already been like this for a year and a half. I just need to make it through another two years.
I sigh again, pulling out my phone. Zero notifications. What did I expect. Since I have nothing better to do, I open Google and, like a loser, begin looking up shit like "how do i get cooler" and "how to get people to like me" Next thing I know, it's like an hour and a half later and I've dug myself into a deep pit of Googling.
I found myself on a question-and-answer site. This random kid asked, "I'm bullied every day at school. I've become really suicidal, and no one talks to me. Even my parents hate me. Any solutions? Please." I scroll through the comments, finding almost copied-and-pasted respomses I found on other questions similar to this one. Be yourself my ass. But one comment in particular catches my eye. It says, "I've heard of something called a squip that I think could help you. The problem is that you can't find like anything on Google about it, no one's ever heard of it, and they're almost impossible to find."
What the fuck is a "squip"?
In the searchbar of the website, I type the word squip. Just as the person predicted, nothing came up. I spend like 15 minutes scrolling through the answers and questions that were siimilar to my search. I'm just about to give up and go to sleep when I see 5 letter word I'm looking for. This question says, "Why can't I find anything on squips when I look it up? I feel like that's kinda weird."
That's what I'm saying.
There's only one answer to this question in the comments, and it isn't an actual answer. The only thing there is a link. I cautiously click on it. It brings me to a dinky-looking website, offering a little gray pill titled a "Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor (SQUIP)" Whatever the hell a squip is, it's realy expensive. I'm talking $600 expensive. There's no way in hell it isn't a scam.
I sigh, turnig off my phone. Sure, I hate getting bullied. But is it so bad that I would pay $600 for a likely scam to make it stop? Maybe not. I set my phone on my nightstand and roll over, attempting to fall asleep.