Your UnSlut Project

Submitted by @Jaylee_CJ

In 8th grade, Maria, Jake, Andrew and Jada were my friends. One day in gym, Maria, who is one of my best friends, and I were chatting.Then, Andrew came out of the boys' locker room and told Maria that Jake called her a slut. I was pissed. I also had a crush on him at the time, but I didn't care when I needed to straighten him out.

So once he came out of the locker room, I smacked him across the face and yelled at him for calling Maria a 'slut.' After that, he decided to call me 'slut' because of it. At first, I didn't care. He was one of my best guy friends and he never indicated that he wanted to hurt me.

Some people were more cruel though. I did wear tighter clothes, like leggings, really short shorts on the last days of 7th and 6th grade, my shirts had cuts all over them, I wasn't a big prude or very modest.

Some people figured out I liked Jake, and said that I slept with him since I was desperate, that's why he called me a slut. It made sense to everyone else, but not to me nor Jake.

I used to cry a lot over it. It wasn't the slut shaming that bothered me the most, it was the fact that nobody believed me, and that it was incredibly awkward to be near him in public.

It really bothered me once I found out it was actually Jada who started this rumor. I was more angry than sad. I made a statement though, but it was pretty mean. At lunch one day, she still thought I didn't figure it out that she started it. I sat next to her, took her pizza and wiped it all over her face! It was priceless! The entire school laughed at her.

She told me I had it coming from her, that the rumor was going to be started by someone any day.

Eventually by freshman year, everyone forgot. Not a word was mentioned. Maria, Andrew and my new friends are close, the world is good now.