My worst day of my life had to be the day I got physically assaulted the day before my exam. My housemates and I were too busy with our revisions, I've decided that we should order pizza for dinner. Unfortunately we were short on cash and I went out to the nearest atm machine. It was around 9 pm, there were not many people around except a group of teenagers (f*cking CHAVS) loitering around. As I walk passed them, one of the kids suddenly pulled my hair, repeatedly shoved my head against the wall. It was random, the only reaction I had was 'SHOCK and disorientated'. I couldnt even defend myself because I was in shock, I'm not used to violence. When the kid was attacking me, the rest of the kids just watched, I think one of them took his camphone, I assume it's one of this 'happy-slapping' crap those f*cking kids do. Thankfully, one of them was smart enough to realized that they're going to be in trouble, he told the rest to run off and that was it.
I ran back home, my friend called the police but the police only came three hours after the attack. The physical injuries weren't serious (I had some minor bruises on my hands and face, a huge bump on my head), but the attack effected me psychologically. I refused to seek medical help because I had an exam the next day!! I tried doing my revisions that night, but my head kept on having flashbacks about the attack and how I could have defended myself instead of being helpless. The next day, I called a cab to take me to the examination hall because I was too traumatized to walk to the university. The police did a follow-up report on me but in the end, they couldn't do anything since the attack wasn't caught on CCTV and 'call them' if I saw them again. WTF?
When the results came out, I had to resit one of my exams, barely passed another exam..I scored lowly on both exams that I sat on the same week I was attacked. ...but hey, there's a happy ending to that, I got distinctions on my other exams and my dissertation... I finally got my masters degree!
As bad as things went,I do believe that there's a reason why I was attacked, it does gave me the motivation to be a stronger person.
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Rape is imminent.