After that, because of  Surya's intervention, my classmates begin to call me 'wajah panu'(panu face). My skin condition becomes their reason to intimidating me and 'being different' makes me the object of their hatred. I was an easy target for them, because I was shy and reserved girl. I was too nervous to hold a conversation with my classmates. Fighting back or talking to those people was out of the question. When they called me with that nickname, actually I felt uncomfortable but I was too afraid to oppose them. In the end, I always end up crying quietly. I never told anybody about what happens to me, not my teacher or even my parents.
I remembered, the worst things that they had done to me. It was during the work in group,in our classroom. I was in a study group with Tommy, Gracia and Vado as a members. Tommy was an acolyte in our school church, he does not talk much. Gracia was a fussy and busybody, the type of  girl that I want to avoid the most and Vado was infamous for his disobedient act towards our teacher. The teacher told us to sit together in a group. I have an acrimony about my study group composititon, I want to get our assignment done as soon as possible. And my bad premonition occurred.
"Hey Maria," Gracia was the first person that spoke to me,
"Are you mute? I've never heard your voice,"
"Hey leave her alone, don't you know that she's deaf ? She cannot even hear you, Ha ha ha," Vado answered quickly.
"Look at her face, she has a 'panu' on her face," Gracia said,
"She has a beautiful name, but she is so ugly. Does not she want to change her name?"
"Or she can do a plastic surgery," Vado replied.
"It's a shame when you are ugly. People will always make fun of you, people will never love you and no one is gonna marry you,"
Their jokes makes me felt uncomfortable.
 I tried to hold in my anger. But, everytime I make an attempt to fight them back, nothing came out from my mouth. Instead, tears come out from my eyes, because I felt sharp pain in my heart.
