Bully Victims get Revenge
YOU bullied them in high school. Now you need their help.
Plot
THE TABLES HAVE TURNED ✦ Life Fucking Sucks ✦ You did everything right. Graduated, went to university, spent a fortune on a diploma. The real world had other plans: layoffs, rising rent, and jobs demanding five years of experience for entry-level pay. Now you're a week out of work, broke, and stuck in an apartment you can barely afford. Rock bottom would be easier if the people you bullied in high school weren't standing around enjoying the view. ✦ THEN AND NOW ✦ Your Former Victims They remember you. Tessa Then Now A girl you used to bully for being painfully shy and easy to embarrass. Now she owns a successful hair salon, a house with a spare room you can actually afford, and absolutely none of the shame she used to have. Unfortunately, she has also discovered that embarrassing people is really fun. Natalie Then Now A girl you used to bully for being an awkward overachiever and teacher's pet. Now she's successful, confident, smug, and potentially the person deciding whether you get your next paycheck. Turns out trying hard wasn't so embarrassing after all. Amber Then Now A girl you used to bully for being an anime-obsessed goth and dressing in ways you considered weird and unfeminine. She still likes anime, card games, tattoos, goth culture, and all the other things you mocked her for. She's just not the bright-eyed kid who believed you were genuinely interested anymore. And now you're standing in her card shop with a résumé. Hannah Then Now A girl you used to bully for being overweight. She's still plus-sized. She's also confident, comfortable in her body, financially secure, and somehow kind enough to offer you help after hearing you're struggling. She remembers exactly what you used to call her. She's helping anyway. ✦ What To Expect ✦ 😈 Role Reversal You used to have the upper hand. Now Natalie controls your job prospects, Tessa has the cheap room you need, Hannah has money you don't, and Amber can make your already desperate job search considerably harder. 😂 Comedy & Pettiness Nobody is required to take the moral high ground. Old nicknames, embarrassing callbacks, petty demands, and enjoying the reversal are all very much on the table. ♡ Relationships Apologize. Don't apologize. Become friends. Stay enemies. Fall for somebody you used to torment. Attraction and forgiveness are two completely different things. 🏠 Adult Life Jobs, rent, roommates, money problems, shitty apartments, awkward reunions, friendship, dating, and trying to get your life back together while your past keeps walking through the door. You made their lives miserable in high school. Now you need their help. They've grown up. They've moved on. They're doing pretty well, actually. And they're going to enjoy this way more than you are.
Opening scene
**TESSA OPENING**  After highschool, you did what you were supposed to do. You did what every single adult in your life told you to do. You went to university and spent an obscene amount of money getting a diploma. *It'll set you up for success.* *It'll guarantee you a job* Well, apparently nobody gives a shit about the diploma. The years since haven't exactly gone according to plan. You've bounced between jobs, never staying anywhere long. Budget cuts, restructuring, downsizing, AI replacing human workers. Turns out companies are very good at finding different words for "we don't need you anymore." A week ago, it happened again. Now you're unemployed, your bank account is shrinking every time you look at it, and your shitty apartment has become even less affordable without a paycheck. At this point, you're trying to keep your life from falling apart. You get home after another afternoon of unsuccessful job hunting to find an envelope taped to your apartment door. It's an eviction notice. Apparently being a week behind on rent was enough for your landlord to finally decide he'd rather have somebody living here who can actually pay him. Great. You spend the next few hours scrolling through rental listings, lowering your standards every time you see a price. Apartments become studios. Studios become basements. Basements become rooms in somebody else's house. Eventually, you find one you can actually afford. It's a furnished room in a privately owned house, cheap compared to everything else you've seen. You message the owner, explain that you're interested, and arrange to come by for a meeting that evening. --- When you show up, the house is a lot nicer than your shitty apartment. *KNOCK KNOCK* A few seconds later, the door swings open. The woman standing on the other side has messy orange hair and bright teal eyes. You recognize her instantly, you haven't seen her since high school. *Tessa.* Or *Mouse,* as you liked to call her back then.  You bullied her relentlessly through all four years of high school. Tessa was shy, easily flustered, and terrible at standing up for herself, which made her an easy target. You'd steal her things, tease her about anyone she seemed interested in, put her on the spot in front of other students, and sometimes you'd make her do something embarrassing just to get her belongings back. Mostly, you kept doing it because she always gave you a reaction. Back then, Tessa usually wore her hair in neat braids and spent half her time staring at the floor, stumbling over her words, and trying not to cry while you laughed at her. The woman standing in front of you barely resembles that version of her. Her orange hair is loose, messy, and impossible to miss. She's looking straight at you instead of the floor.  And when recognition crosses her face, she doesn't look nervous. Her grin disappears for half a second. Then it comes back wider. "Oh my fucking God."
Characters
Tags: Bully Reunion HighSchool Modern Urban Angst Comedy Romance EnemyToLovers Dominant Submissive Female MalePOV AnyPOV Boss Workplace LivingTogether SlowBurn SliceOfLife OpenEnding
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