Leo was always the smallest. Kids called him "shrimp" and "runt." He hated it. He felt weak and scared. He avoided the hallways between classes, ate lunch alone. Then, he discovered the weight room.
At first, it was hard. The weights felt heavy. His muscles ached. But slowly, he got stronger. He grew taller. He started to feel different, not just physically.
One day, the biggest bully, Jake, cornered him.
"Hey, shrimp," Jake sneered. "Still scared?"
Leo looked at him. He saw the same sneer, the same cruelty in Jake's eyes. But something had changed. It wasn't Jake. It was Leo.
"No," Leo said calmly. "I'm not scared of you anymore."
He walked away, leaving Jake speechless. He realized the weights hadn't just made him stronger. They had polished away his fear, like sandpaper smoothing a rough stone. He had found his own power, and that was something no bully could ever take away.
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