This is a true story about me witnessing my mum in a catfight, although, to call it a catfight is not entirely true; more like a slaughter!
It happened two years ago when I first enrolled at a college in Liverpool, England to study Art and Design. I was 18 at the time. Because I have High-Functioning Autism I have always been quite introverted, quiet and not very social, and subjected to bullying my whole entire life. As soon as I started class, the other students saw I wasn't quite like them the way I was quiet and kept to myself. One girl in particular, named Louise, who was the complete opposite to myself. She was very loud-mouthed, extroverted, narcissistic and a bit of an attention seeker — decided to make my life hell from my first day at class and after; which first started by her calling me names like "retard", "weirdo", "mummy's boy", etc., and later progressed to her throwing various objects at me, hiding my possessions, and prodding me in the back whenever she walked past — to the amusement of her female circle of friends. I complained to certain authorities at the college, but nothing was ever done about her relentless bullying. I'm only 5'6″ tall and weighed 9 stone at the time, and never had a fight in my life, and ignorant in knowing how to defend myself. I'm a bit of a wimp really. Now, Louise looked to be about 5'9″ tall, weighed roughly 13 or 14 stone and was quite athletic-looking. She had ginger hair and I noticed her hands were very big for a girl. She would always have this look of contempt on her face whenever our eyes met — like a sneer with her top lip curling up. She was in fact very attractive and many lads in college would comment about her sexiness.
After about 8 months, I learned to just get used to Louise picking on me. However, it did get me down, which was eventually noticed by my mum after a while. She asked me if I was okay, and I broke down in tears and told her everything regarding what Louise was doing to me. My mum got really infuriated and wanted to make a complaint about the situation to the college. She also asked how old Louise was. I told her that she was 18 years old. She laughed and said, "well, she's an adult then, and old enough for a good hiding!" I talked her out of making any complaints and doing anything rash, and reassured her I can handle the situation on my own. Now, my mum was 46 years old at the time and only 5'3″, has mousy-brown hair, slightly below medium build, but very feisty and takes no shit off anyone. She is very over-confident about her abilities, unlike me.
To cut a long story short, about 3 weeks after making my mum aware about being bullied by this certain girl, called Louise, we went for a walk — just the two of us — in our local park. It was a Sunday in late May, around 5 o'clock in the afternoon. As we got closer to where the swings, see-saw and climbing frame were; I noticed Louise was there hanging out with 5 of her female friends smoking weed and holding a bottle of liquor of some sort. My heart started to race and I became anxious. I started to quicken my step hoping Louise wouldn't notice me. But to my dismay, I heard her shout, "hey, retard!" Which was heard by my mum too. Louise came running over to us, closely followed by her female entourage.
"What the fuck are you doing here, Toby, you fuckin' dickhead?" She aggressively asked.
"Jus, jus, just going for a walk with my mum." I stuttered.
I could see that Louise was looking my mum up and down sizing her up.
"Your mum's an ugly bitch, isn't she?" "I can see who you take after with your ugly looks now." Said Louise rudely and abruptly.