Sunny side up?

 

 Pants: LaRedoute, Shirt: Zara, Shoes: Ash, Crown: DIY

Aloha!

Here are the original pictures (->one of them was for a cover of Mode Republic)!

I don’t feel like writing a happy blog post now… I’m actually always positive and my motto is ‘sunny side up’, but so much has happened these past months!

I really don’t know what the hell is happening to the world!

Well, I think I better start explaining what happened:

A few months ago I was chilling in the park (near the place where I live). It was sunny, LOTS of children were playing at the playground and my boyfriend and I sat on a bench just eating candy and talking about our vacation plans. All of a sudden a few boys started to bully us (yelling stupid things, asking stupid things,… you know: acting stupid!). But that happens quite a lot, so we ignored them. Like always.

They continued talking to us; one of them even started screaming things next to my ear! Then the bullying went to far… they were throwing sticks and stones to my boyfriend’s head and they even hit him a few times with a branch. So of course he stood up and got angry, telling them to stop acting like that. The next thing I knew was that one of the boys just hit him in the face for no reason… (I clearly want to indicate that my boyfriend didn’t start the fight, he said nothing aggressive nor had an aggressive body language)

I won’t go in to detail too much, but we both tried to calm down the boy (he acted like he was possessed or something…?). So my boyfriend didn’t punched him once, cause that would set the guy off even more (plus my boyfriend is +18, so if the other boy was a minor we, as a victim, would be in some serious trouble and not the boy who started this… That doesn’t make any sense right?)

I luckily got out of the fight unharmed; I really tried to protect my boyfriend! I remember grabbing his face, so that the idiot would stop hitting him and would beat me instead (but he didn’t). One boy did spat in my face… really unnecessary…

To make this long story short: we did call the police even though the teachers (remember all the children that were playing at the playground? Well, they ALL saw what happened… and their teachers were with them) said we should get out of the park and act like nothing happened…

I found the boys while we were driving in the police car. They got arrested, but we still didn’t heard anything from the police since then. I don’t know whether they got punished, or if they paid for my boyfriend’s doctors visit (his nose was possibly broken)… When they got arrested they lied about what happened (I was attacking the boy who spat my face? Yeah, I’m really going to attack another gang member if his friend is beating my boyfriend… really believable…). So I’m guessing that nothing happened to those idiots…

And yesterday my boyfriend got mugged (at the park near his house, again: lots of children were playing) by a couple of assholes… So now I’m really pissed!

I’m pissed because I can’t walk the street on my own without being called a whore (or other alternatives), I can’t walk the street on my own without being followed, I can’t wait for my bus at the bus stop without being addressed, I have to act like I’m phoning someone so I won’t be hassled,… I’m just really scared right now. I finally got my confidence back up again to go out and then they do such a thing to my boyfriend… 

So this is actually the reason why I stopped blogging for a while (+exams of course). The first weeks I didn’t feel like blogging, and now, I don’t have the guts to go out to take pictures…

I am really sorry if this post sounds depressing! It just feels so good to write this all off! Writing heals… ^^

So now I want to know: did something like this ever happened to you? To your friends? … What did you do to get over it? + Do you put some stuff in your handbag to protect yourself? Because I really want to have something with me, just in case… But things like pepper spray are illegal in Belgium… So I need some ideas! =D