Sounds like a crowd to avoid.. and what was the draw to this group for the MC?? :) Sophomore boys love gore and violence and machismo. …I assume.

@ElshaHawk, it happened when I was 13, the bullies were 16-18, I wrote about it in high school.

@Nagi_schwarz, its non-fiction, the details are still fresh, it was a life lesson moment,. I learned not to fight, the opposite of my bullies intent. I won.

Go you!
There is a time to fight and a time to.. yeah you get the picture.
Usually I’m a lover, not a fighter, but this time… okay okay I’ll stop with the quotes. :)
I thought perhaps you wrote this story, but it is non-fiction. That makes my previous comment pretty obsolete…
Your last line is awesome!

quite an initiation process…