Bullying punishment by XX

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Patially based on a true story on a guy from my school. English is not my native language so please forgive the mistakes here!

Scott is an 18 year old guy that lives with his widowed dad, Ken, in Ohio. The best way to describe Scott is that he is one of those jocks in school that is tall, handsome and popular with the girls, with his toned body, blue eyes, athletic build and carefully styled brown hair. He plays American football after school and attends the gym regularly to keep up his handsome apperance. He has recently started pursing a girl in school named Lucy, but she repeatedly plays hard to get and is proving to be a challenge for Scott to woo her. In short, Scott is a popular guy.

However theres also a dark side to Scott: he is a bully. He hangs out with his jock buddies Josh, Ray and Curtis in school and almost daily they would cause trouble for the less popular students, especially the nerdy types with no friends. Once, Scott went up to a nerdy guy with glasses in the school canteen and just poured his drink all over the poor guy's face. These antics always ends up with detention however nothing changes and then a few days later he does it again, purely for the joy of himself and his buddies.

Now onto Scott's dad, Ken. Ken is an ex-army veterean who since his wife (Scott's mom) died has been 100% hands off with Scott's upbringing. As a result, Scott has become an arrogant but handsome bully at school with no parental discipline at home.

Last summer, a quiet girl in his school named Elizabeth was diagonsed with leukemia and as a result she was off school for 9 months for chemotherapy treatment, resulting in her losing all of her hair. Upon her return to school, Elizabeth was still totally bald and wore a headscarf to all her classes. That day, Scott was feeling particularly nasty and said to his buddies: "$10 bet I'll rip off her head gear?" However, this proved to be even too much for his friends "Come on man, she has cancer. Don't do this, this is a step too far." Scott just shrugged it off: "Y'all are p*****!". Later on at lunchtime in the canteen, Scott did the unthinkable: he crept behind Elizabeth and tore off her headscarf then pointed at her, shouting: "BALDY!". As all the students at lunch turned around and gasped at what he had done, Elizabeth immediately bursted into tears and ran into the girls washroom. Scott then walked back to his buddies, laughing. However they were unimpressed: "Dude, that's messed up." Scott just carried on with the rest of the day, as normal.

When school finished that day, Scott was suddenly called into the principal's office. He suspected this was about Elizabeth's headscarf incident but thought to himself, "I'll just do detention for a few hours then be done with it, as usual. No big deal." As Scott entered the office, he saw his dad, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's parents all sat there with Mr. Henrikson, the principal. "Uh Oh, this is more serious than I thought", Scott said to himself. Scott saw the angry, stern look his from dad's face that he had not seen before.

"Mr. Henrikson", Elizabeth's dad loudly demanded as Elizabeth sat there still teary from early on, "I demand Scott to be punished with full force. How DARE he do this to my poor little girl? Doesn't he have no compassion? Absolutely disgusting!" Mr. Henrikson agreed and suspended Scott from all his American football games and ordered him daily detention for 3 months. "Mr. Henrikson, Mr and Mrs Jones" said Ken, "I apologize unreservedly for my son's unforgivable behavior. I will do better as a parent. From now on, I promise I will make sure Scott doesn't bully again."

As Ken drove Scott home, they sat in silence. Everytime Scott glanced at his dad, Ken gave him an angry look. As they got home, Ken said to Scott: "You can forget about dinner tonight. Go to your room and think about what you have done! I don't want to see you for the rest of the evening ok?" As Scott retreated to his room, Ken devised a punishment for Scott that he hopes will teach him a lesson.

The next morning, Ken woke Scott up at 4am sharp, when normally Scott wouldn't get up until 6am for school. "What the f*** dad, what's the fuss? Why am I up so early!" "Come with me to the bathroom", Ken said. Scott followed his dad to the bathroom and Ken quickly shut the door and put the key in his pocket. "You are going to be punished. Bullying a bald girl with cancer is just totally wrong. I have failed as a father all these years. I am making the punishment fit the crime."

"Dad, what is going on, what are you doing?" Asked Scott, puzzled.

"Sit down." Ken said. There was already a chair in the bathroom that Ken put there yesterday. As Scott sat down, Ken took out a pair of hair clippers and shouted: "You are going to school with a bald head!"

"Noooooooo!" Scott begged. "That's so unfair! I won't do it again, I promise."

"Too late" said Ken. "You need to learn your lesson."

Ken plugged in the clippers and immediately ran it through the middle of Scott's head. He continued religiously as thick chunks of Scott's chestnut brown hair rained down onto the bathroom floor.

"How is Lucy gonna date me now? Girls don't like bald guys." Scott exclaimed loudly.

"Well you should have thought about that when you bullied Elizabeth. Anyway, girls aren't interested in guys without compassion, nevermind guys without hair!" Ken replied.

In a matter of 5 minutes, Ken has finished clipping Scott's head to 1mm stubble. "Oh my god! I'm bald, Dad this is child abuse. I look terrible!" Scott complained as he checked out his reflection in the mirror.

"Boy, we ain't done yet!" Ken said as he wrapped a hot towel round Scott's head. Ken used his own shaving cream and shaving brush and lathered Scott's head. By this point, tears ran down Scott's face: "Please dad, I don't want a shiny bald head!"

Ken paid no attention to Scott's pleas. Without any further ado, Ken installed a new blade into his Gillette fusion razor and began to scrape the stubbles off Scott's virgin scalp, rinsing the blade in between each stroke. Ken lathered Scott's head again and this time also lathered his face and eyebrows, shaving his head against the grain whilst also removing the little facial hair he had as well as his eyebrows.

"Oh my god, I look like a f***ing egg! I hate you!" Scott shouted, as Ken wiped away the shaving cream from his head.

"Final step and then we get ready for school", said Ken, as he rubbed aftershave lotion all over Scott's head. Scott stared at himself in the mirror. His hairless head, formerly covered in thick brown locks that all girls loved, now gleams and shines under the bathroom light, without a hair anywhere. His eyebrows, gone. His peach fuzz facial hair, also gone.

"Can I please wear a hat at least?" Scott asked his dad. "No hats." replied Ken as they got into the car for school. You need to show everyone your bald head. I hope by the time your hair grows back, everytime you look in the mirror, you'll see what you have done. Everytime you feel your smooth head, you are reminded of what you have done. Everytime someone stares at you for being bald, you are reminded of what you did. Bullying cancer patients is the lowest of the low. I hope you will learn from this!"

Scott walked up to the school gates with his head down, showing his white scalp under the sun. The once confident, charismatic Scott is now a shy, awkard bald teen who looks around for other's student's stares with paranoia. "What are people gonna think? How will they react?" He thought to himself. And Scott got stares from virtually everyone as he walked through the school to his first class. Mr. Henrikson, the principal, went over to Scott in the corridor and said: "Well well well, I see your dad was a man of his word."

"What you mean?" said Scott.

"You see, shaven heads are forbidden in our school dress code, unless for religious or medical reasons. But your dad phoned me last night and asked if you could have an exemption for your punishment so I said yes. I hope you have learned your lesson." Mr. Henrikson replied, walking away.

Scott then walked over to his friends, whom all laughed when they saw him "Ahhahaha. Oh wow. Now who's the BALDY!" they chanted. "Dude, we did tell you bullying a cancer patient is bad karma, didn't we? You look ridiculous. You don't suit a bald head." Lucy, Scott's crush, also walked up to Scott and said to him: "I heard about what you did yesterday, and frankly, I never want to see you again." Elizabeth wasn't at school that day as she took the rest of the week off to recover from the humilation she suffered. Scott had the worst school day of his life, every corner of the school he went to, people stared and it made him super self concious. "I deserve this", he thought to himself.

At the end of his first bald day at school, Scott got home and found his dad, who was shaving his face at that moment. "F*** you for making me do this, it was so humiliating, its disgusting". Ken, upon hearing his, simply waved his razor in front of Scott and said: "Do you want another clean shave on your head? Are you still not sorry? Go to your room!"

About an hour later, Scott came downstairs to his dad and said: "Dad, I'm sorry for bullying Elizabeth. I throughly deserve my punishment, I now know what it feels like to look different. I promise I won't bully people again".

"That's my boy!" Ken said. "I hopeI taught you a lesson. Just one more thing. I want you to apologize to Elizabeth."

"Yes dad, I will." replied Scott.

One week later, Elizabeth has returned to school. Scott, who's hair has now grown to a no.0 buzzcut, walked up to her and apologized to her: "Lizzy, I'm sincerely sorry for what I did to you last week. I was a disgusting coward. It was very wrong of me. My dad shaved my head to teach me a lesson and believe me, the lesson has been learnt. Will you forgive me?" Elizabeth looked at him and replied: "Yes I forgive you. No hard feelings." as they hugged it out.

Fast forward 1 year. Scott and Elizabeth are seen holding hands and are now dating. Elizabeth's hair has grown out to her shoulders while Scott's hair is back to his usual hairstyle. Scott has truly learned his lesson and never bullied anyone again.

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