Beware the ides of march

So sitting in class today, I watched something I strongly feel against.
We were all working on our work that we were supposed to do, and I was lingering off into la la land as i usually do every five minutes, and then I hear him screaming at her.

I watch as she folds her arms on her desk and buries her face in them.
I've seen that happen before.

He shoves her desk, taunting her, oh no, this isn't pretty.

I try to look away but I can't. My eyes are peeled now.
I miss part of his sentence, but I hear it end with "... you bitch!"

She screams, raises a fist to him and looks like she's about to cry.

He says it again.

That's it. He doesn't have the right to do that.

I had to step in.

I scream from across the room, "Shut up, don't you dare talk to her like that,"
and am ignored. Perhaps just not heard.

I jump in again.

"She doesn't deserve to be treated like that, shut up."

Another classmate echoes my words from the other side of the room.

"Learn how to treat your friends."
Again, we both go unheard.

Everyone's watching now as she's screaming at him to leave her alone, how he needs to stop calling her names and hitting her.

I don't, he taunts her back, again.

Ask everyone in the class!

They both have everyone's attention now.
One more time I jump in to stop this.. again, unheard.
The teacher comes over and calms things down.

Eventually he's sent out of the room.

Good.

Now everyone is completely silent. I break it by starting up project talk with my group.

Now, where were we?

After class I text her, and I tell her that I'm proud of her for doing what she did, that she has no right to be treated that way.

Because she doesn't.
From anyone.

I can't believe how long it's been since I was beside her, and how different things have been. What brought this on?

Watching someone else hurt her for no reason, I couldn't let it happen.
Even if I wasn't heard, I know I tried my best to help protect her.
No matter if she was doing perfect on her own.

She's stronger than any could ever imagine, I only dream that someday I can be a fraction of that. And I'm sick and tired of all the crap we've all been putting each other through, and it ends right now.

I'm serious when I say this, if anyone doesn't like it we can speak directly about it, but for right now, I finish with this.

No one will treat anyone else like crap anymore. We're all going through our own problems in our own lives, but that doesn't give us the right to take it out on each other. I don't care what you've done to the other person or what the other person has done for you. We were all there for each other at one point or another, and maybe we're not all there for each other anymore.

But I will be there- for those who are there for me- starting right now.

I'm going to try to mend the things that I have broken, because of my own misjudgement I ruined many things.

So, no one will be treating anyone with anymore disrespect.

It stops right here.

Bam. Done.