Abby loses her cookie to a bully and talks to her mom about the unfairness of the situation. The cafeteria hums with fluorescent lights and low voices. The noise vibrates in Abby’s ears like static, matching the dull anxiety thudding in her chest.
She sits alone at a scarred plastic table. Her lunch tray is a sad spread of lukewarm mystery meat and sagging salad. In the center lies the one bright spot: a chocolate chip cookie in crinkled cellophane.
To anyone else, it’s dessert.
To Abby, it’s proof.
Proof she survives another morning of algebra, fake smiles, and whispered judgments. Prove to her parents that you care, even if school feels like a war zone.
The air changes.
A shadow stretches across her tray—heavy, cold, final. A boy steps into it. His face is young, but his eyes look older than the building.
He doesn’t speak.
He reaches down, picks up her cookie with slow, practiced fingers, and walks away—the plastic crackles like a dying breath.
Abby freezes, fork halfway to her mouth.
Why? How? The questions circle in her head but never reach her throat. Her body feels bolted to the seat.
She doesn’t see the boy drop into a seat three tables away. She doesn’t see the way the room seems to bend around him. She has no idea he isn’t just another teenager.
He is something older.
A fallen worker from another realm, cast out of Paradise ages ago. Once, he stood in front of heavenly leaders and refused to follow orders or serve “lower‑class” humans.
Now he steals small joys instead of crowns.
That evening, the kitchen smells like lemon cleaner and exhaustion. Steam rises from a pot on the stove, forming a white curtain between Abby and her mom.
“Mom, a mean bully took my cookie,” Abby says. Her voice sounds small even to herself. Why does this feel like I’m reporting a crime? “I always look forward to my cookie. It’s like… a present of love from you guys. A reward for working hard. I don’t like that boy.”
Mom doesn’t look up. The spoon keeps circling the pot.
“Now, don’t be critical,” Mom says, in that soft, practiced tone Abby secretly hates. “You don’t know how that bully was feeling.”
How was he feeling? Abby’s mind screams. He seemed to want my cookie.
The next day is worse.
The cafeteria feels louder. The smells are stronger. Abby sits at the same table. Another cookie lies at the center of her tray.
The shadow returns.
Again, the boy takes her cookie.
This time, the shock breaks. Tears burn down her cheeks before she can swallow them back.
He stops. Turns.
He doesn’t look guilty.
He looks entertained.
He laughs—sharp, metallic—and the noise slices right through the roar of the room.
That evening, Abby walks into the kitchen with her backpack hanging from one limp hand.
“Mom, that awful bully ate my cookie,” she says. “He’s stealing my self‑esteem. He takes my happiness cookie and leaves me… nothing. Depressed.”
Mom finally turns and leans against the counter, arms folded.
“What did you do?” she asks.
“I just sat there and cried,” Abby says, face burning. “Then he smiled and laughed at me.”
Mom gives her a small, almost dreamy smile.
“He sounds like an appreciative, joyful student,” she decides. “Be patient and forgive him, and then he’ll stop.”
Abby stares at her.
Forgive him? If I forgive him for taking my merit, does that mean my hard work no longer matters?
The bully eats Abby's cookie, and she complains to the teacher to seek justice. The next day, Abby sits at her usual table with her usual tray and her usual cookie.
She feels anything but usual.
As the shadow falls over her tray, she doesn’t move. She doesn’t cry. She closes her eyes and forces herself to radiate forgiveness, as Mom said.
The bully steals her cookie.
This time, he doesn’t walk away.
He peels the wrapper open and eats slowly. Bite. Chew. Swallow. His eyes never leave her face.
He’s not just eating sugar, Abby thinks. He’s eating the place where my safety used to live.
That evening, the kitchen feels smaller. Steam clouds the air. Abby grips a chair back until her knuckles turn white.
“Mom, that beastly bully ate my confidence cookie,” she says. “He stood there grinning while he ate it. There’s something about the way he does it that feels… malicious.”
Mom looks up with a serene expression that makes Abby want to scream.
“You’re still being critical and judgmental,” Mom sighs. “He’s just showing you how grateful he is for your gracious sharing of your abundance.”
“He stole my cookie,” Abby says, voice rising. “I earned that cookie by being good and working hard.”
Mom tilts her head.
“What did you do to encourage him to feel that taking your cookie would make him happy?” she asks.
What did I do?
“I sat there, depressed, and tried to forgive him while he ate it,” Abby says. The words taste bitter.
“Try to be kinder and more loving,” Mom says, turning back to the stove. “Maybe he’s hungry. You don’t fully understand why he’s taking your cookie. He must need it to survive.”
The next day proves one thing clearly: kindness does not stop hunger.
The bully steals her cookie again.
Abby can’t take it anymore. If her own mother won’t protect her, maybe the school will.
She marches to the front of the classroom after lunch and stands in front of the desk.
“Teacher, a bully keeps stealing my cookie every day at lunch,” Abby says. “Please make him stop.”
The teacher looks up slowly, eyes flashing behind trendy glasses.
“Did you not hear my announcement?” she asks with sharp dignity. “My preferred identity is now ‘all‑wise, loving educator of perfect gender and color.’”
Abby blinks.
“I… didn’t take that seriously,” she admits. “I thought you were joking. Sorry.”
The teacher’s face hardens.
“Do you want to be expelled?” she asks.
Cold fear slides down Abby’s spine.
Trying to follow the rules, Abby uses Super-Teacher's preferred pronouns to report the thief. The room feels colder.
If I don’t say it exactly right, Abby realizes, I don’t just lose my cookie.
I could lose everything.
She swallows her pride like a pill made of glass.
“I’m sorry,” Abby says, voice trembling. She bows her head slightly. “Please forgive me, oh wise, loving educator of perfect gender and color. A bully keeps stealing my cookie every day at lunch. Please make him stop.”
The teacher relaxes, lips curving into a satisfied smile.
“You can call me Super‑Teacher to shorten it,” she says. “However, you can’t use the term ‘bully’ for someone who threatens, intimidates, or badgers smaller, weaker children. That word is derogatory and insulting.”
She folds her hands.
“How does this student choose to be identified?”
Is the person stealing from me the victim now? Abby thinks.
“Oh, Super‑Teacher of perfect gender and color,” Abby says carefully, “I don’t know his preferred pronouns, but he is my chief problem.”
Super‑Teacher nods thoughtfully.
“He may be an interesting and mostly humble student,” she muses. “Please call him the chief student to respect his preferences. What did he do with your cookie?”
“The chief student ate it,” Abby says. The sentence feels like it belongs in someone else’s nightmare.
“That is an essential clue to his identity,” Super‑Teacher declares, leaning forward like a detective. “He must be hungry. Did he physically harm you?”
Abby remembers his laughter cutting through her like a blade.
“No,” she says. “But the hungry chief student ate my confidence cookie.”
Super‑Teacher stands and gestures grandly toward the door.
“Go get the hungry, harmless chief student,” she orders.
Abby walks back to the cafeteria on lead legs.
She finds the boy, tells him Super‑Teacher wants to see him. For a moment, his eyes widen.
Then he smirks.
He knows exactly how this game works.
In a frustrating meeting, Super-Teacher defends the bully and labels Abby as no-one. Super‑Teacher’s office smells like filtered air and disinfectant. A purifier hums softly in the corner like a tiny, judgmental engine.
Abby stands by the door, feeling smaller than the houseplant.
The bully slouches in a chair, radiating lazy arrogance. The room feels colder on his side.
“Did you eat Abby’s cookie?” Super‑Teacher asks in a gentle tone, as if asking about a missing homework assignment.
The bully leans back, eyes half‑lidded.
“Absolutely not,” he says smoothly. “At first, I was worried for Abby’s health. The cookie might have been poisoned. I borrowed it to perform a safety inspection.”
He continues, weaving lies like he’s practiced.
“Afterward, it was contaminated by my hands,” he says. “I couldn’t return it. It might have caused her harm. I had custody of the cookie long enough to establish full legal possession. It was my property in my hand when I ate it.”
Abby stares.
Safety inspection?
Legal possession?
The words are so absurd she expects something—anything—to crack.
Instead, Super‑Teacher’s face softens with relief.
“Oh, I’m very sorry to have bothered you,” she says, voice warm. “Thank you for being so considerate. Please return to your seat. I’ll give you an automatic A on your next test.”
The bully flashes Abby a quick, sharp grin and saunters out.
Something sharp and hot snaps inside her.
“But, Super‑Teacher of perfect gender and color,” Abby says, voice shaking, “he first illegally took my cookie, then ate it.”
Super‑Teacher’s warmth vanishes.
“Of course, the chief inspector tasted a cookie to perform a safety inspection out of kindness,” she snaps. “He risked injury to protect you. Did you not hear his brilliant explanation? He needed to establish ownership before consumption.”
Her eyes narrow.
“Do you have proof the chief inspector stole your cookie?” she demands. “Show me the cookie as evidence.”
Abby looks at the empty desk, then at her empty hands.
The proof is in his stomach.
“No proof,” she mutters. “He ate my—or I mean, his—rightfully possessed cookie.”
Super‑Teacher sighs dramatically.
“Sorry, I can do nothing without proof,” she says. “Parents might criticize or harm me if I accuse the chief inspector without evidence.”
Her gaze sharpens.
“This is your fault for bringing just one cookie to school,” she continues. “You teased a starving student with your wealth. You are uncaring and ignorant of the chief inspector’s duties.”
She taps a few keys on her computer.
“You haven’t chosen a fake fantasy identity. You don’t count. Your pronoun is NO‑ONE,” she says calmly. “All that hungry student did was temporarily borrow your cookie until he established ownership. Why doesn’t your birthing person explain this at home?”
Abby stands there, reclassified as NO‑ONE.
For a moment, she honestly wonders if she’s starting to disappear.
Super-Teacher ignores Abby's rights, and Mom tells her to bring two cookies to appease the thief. The air in the office feels thin, as if Super‑Teacher is inhaling all the oxygen for herself.
Abby clutches her backpack straps.
I am a person, not NO‑ONE, she thinks.
Out loud, she says, “I want the chief inspector to stop eating my cookies. Is that too much? It’s your job to protect helpless students and make things fair.”
Super‑Teacher doesn’t look up from her screen. Colorful charts—words, labels, categories—fill it.
“I’m too busy to handle minor issues like blackmail, theft, and intimidation,” she says briskly. “I have important tasks. Removing offensive classic books. Drafting memos on pronouns. Labeling bathrooms for fairness.”
She straightens a little nameplate that reads Super‑Teacher.
“Less fortunate students have almost equal rights to self‑identify however they want and act according to that identity,” she continues. “Be happy, the student who identifies as an inspector is doing his job protecting your health. You haven’t chosen a special pronoun. You are NO‑ONE. You have no rights.”
A cold emptiness unfolds in Abby’s chest.
If I don’t exist, how can everything hurt this much?
“What am I supposed to do?” she asks. “Cookies make me happy. They help my self‑esteem.”
Super‑Teacher finally looks at her, expression clinical.
“Cookies contain harmful ingredients,” she says. “Poisonous substances like sugar and oil. You are officially warned.”
Abby walks home through hallways that feel too long and too bright.
That night, she finds Mom in the kitchen, wrapped in the familiar smells of dinner.
“Mom, I told the all‑wise, loving educator of perfect gender and color about my problem,” Abby says.
Mom frowns. “What kind of name is that for a teacher? She must be joking.”
“That’s what I said,” Abby answers. “Then she threatened to expel me.”
Mom’s face snaps into strictness.
“Don’t be disrespectful to your elders,” she scolds. “What else did your well‑educated teacher say?”
“She said my ‘birthing person’ hadn’t explained things to me properly,” Abby says flatly.
Mom nods, accepting the title without flinching.
“Your all‑knowing educator is right,” she says. “You don’t listen when I yell at you. You’re extremely selfish.”
She turns back to the stove.
“This hungry, mostly kind inspector is graciously testing your cookies daily,” Mom continues. “It’s his right to expect what he wants. Children should do whatever they want. The unfortunate bully deserves your cookies. You have more than he does. I try to explain, but you always disagree.”
I want my own cookie, Abby thinks, throat tight.
“Try being more gracious and understanding to the harmless safety inspector,” Mom says. “Take two cookies tomorrow and offer him one. He’ll see you as kind, like himself, and he won’t want to offend you. You’ll feel better helping him. Just imagine being that hungry.”
Abby doesn’t answer.
The image of his grin flickers behind her eyes.
Despite her attempt at kindness, the bullies steal both cookies and threaten Abby. The cafeteria smells like grease and something burned. Abby clutches two plastic-wrapped cookies, her hands shaking.
Maybe Mom is right, she thinks. Maybe kindness is the one thing he hasn’t tried.
She walks up to the bully.
“Here,” she says, forcing a small smile. “I brought an extra. For you.”
He snatches the cookie, laughs in her face—sharp, mocking—and then, without breaking eye contact, reaches down and steals her other one.
Shock hits her like ice.
The fallen one turns, lifts the stolen treats, and gives the second cookie to his sidekick.
The sidekick has a crooked grin and flat, stone‑cold eyes.
“You’d better bring two cookies every day,” he says, stepping closer. “Or I’ll beat you up.”
The bully watches with calm interest. He’s noticed something: the school cares more about his “hungry student” identity than Abby’s safety.
That realization is gasoline.
He smirks and lifts the cookies higher.
“These are NO‑ONE’s cookies,” he says loudly. “So I can eat them.”
That night, the kitchen feels like a stage set for the wrong play.
“Mom, two hungry, harmless inspectors stole NO‑ONE’s cookies and threatened me,” Abby says.
Mom’s eyes shine with pride.
“Wow, there must be so many starving children at your school,” she says. “Did it feel good to help them?”
Help them?
“I wanted revenge but felt powerless,” Abby says. “If they keep taking my cookies, they might start eating my whole lunch.”
“I’m so proud of you,” Mom says. “I always knew you were pretty. Now you’ve attracted two important future government inspectors. I bet an inspector asks you on a date.”
Abby’s stomach twists.
“I’d normally say you’re too young,” Mom continues, “but I’ll make an exception for a harmless, future‑important person. Let’s go shopping for a new outfit. You need to impress a high‑ranking official.”
Abby doesn’t respond.
Her fear swallows her words.
She stays home for the next two days.
While she hides under her blankets, the bullies switch targets and steal her best friend’s cookies instead.
On the third day, Abby returns to school.
This time, she’s more angry than afraid.
The bullies spot her immediately.
They take her cookies, stand in the middle of the aisle, and eat them slowly, defiantly, inches from her face.
After an outburst, the students vote for Abby to bring cookies for everyone. The cafeteria air is thick with noise and the smell of reheated meat.
Abby sits alone. The bullies crack open her cookies as if in a ritual, their laughter loud and bright.
Something inside her finally boils over.
She slams her palms on the table. The sound cracks through the room like a gunshot.
She stands, hands on her hips.
If they can rewrite words, she thinks, I can rewrite them too.
“These are NO‑ONE’s medicinal cookies!” she shouts. “You have no right to eat them. These cookies are my medicine for happiness and confidence. You have to stop. It is not the right thing to do.”
The bully stops chewing.
He steps closer.
“I can do whatever I want,” he sneers. “I identify as the chief inspector. There’s nothing you can do. You don’t scare me. You should be grateful I’m only taking your cookies.”
His laugh rings out: “Ha. Ha. Ha.”
A crowd gathers. For a second, Abby hopes.
Then she hears them.
“Why is she being so mean to those important inspectors?” someone whispers loudly.
“They’re just acting out their chosen identities,” another student says. “They have the right to test her cookies under fantasy laws. Medicinal cookies come from universal all‑ness. They belong to everyone.”
“Our super‑educator labeled her NO‑ONE,” a girl adds. “She has so much wealth and won’t help those in need.”
A boy steps forward, raising his hand like he’s calling an assembly.
“I’d like to propose a vote,” he says. “Many children are starving in faraway countries. Everyone who thinks Abby should bring emergency medical cookies for all students tomorrow, raise your hand.”
Hands shoot up.
All of them.
Abby doesn’t move. Her arm feels welded to her side.
Not one person votes no.
A cold wave rushes through her.
They just rewrote my future with a show of hands.
Super‑Teacher glides into the crowd like she’s entering a courtroom.
“The majority rules,” she announces. “In a fair vote, it has been democratically decided—for the good of all students voting—that Abby must bring one life‑saving cookie for each student every day.”
The cafeteria erupts in cheers.
They’re not celebrating kindness, Abby realizes.
They’re celebrating the discovery that if enough of them vote, they can take anything.
Pushed to the brink, Abby bakes poisonous medicinal cookies and adds a warning label to protect herself legally. For days, Abby moves through school like a ghost.
No fantasy labels trail after her name. No identity tags flash above her head.
To everyone trained to see only those labels, she is … not there.
She tried everything Mom preached. Patience. Forgiveness. Extra kindness.
It didn’t break the cycle.
It fed it.
The nicer she acted, the more they took.
Fear and helplessness rot into something darker—resentment, bitter and sharp. She refuses to stay a permanent victim in someone else’s script.
At home, the pressure explodes.
“But, Mom, all the students voted that I’m responsible for bringing ‘life‑saving’ cookies for everyone,” Abby bursts out. “I can’t stand being a helpless victim anymore. I feel terrible. I can’t eat my own cookies. I feel abused, mistreated and taken advantage of. I’m scared of the bullies. How do I make them stop? They’re not afraid of me. They do whatever they want. I’m the victim, but I’m treated like a criminal. I’m not a rock. I have feelings. I can’t just switch them off. My teacher—whatever I’m supposed to call her—labeled me ‘NO‑ONE.’”
Mom doesn’t flinch.
“Don’t get angry with me,” she says calmly. “You were democratically assigned the important job of preventing students from starving. It was unanimous because your pronoun excludes you from voting. You’re at a big‑city school. Learn to live with it.”
She keeps going, voice drifting into sermon mode.
“Everyone must contribute their fair share,” Mom says. “Expect things like this. Use them as tests of your forgiveness. Be patient and long‑suffering. Be happy with the current level of oppression, or it will increase. You expect too much from students who lack wisdom and virtues. Be grateful they’re not taking your whole lunch.”
She turns and looks at Abby with chilling serenity.
“Passive graciousness keeps oppression from growing,” she says. “Show them a good example by accepting whatever happens. Just be‑here‑now. Be grateful they still let you attend school after your selfish and violent outbursts. True strength is being happy no matter what.”
She points at the counter.
“As punishment, you can bake the medicinal cookies for all students tomorrow,” she adds. “Show them you can be graciously passive and happy to serve.”
Abby stares at the flour, sugar, and chocolate chips laid out like ingredients for a spell.
If they want medicine, she thinks, I’ll give them medicine.
“I’ve never made cookies before,” Abby says. Her fingers hover over the mixing bowl. “All I know is my teacher said they’re made with ingredients that are poisonous to the body.”
“Your teachers are wise and always right,” Mom says. “Be obedient.”
“I feel extremely pressured to bake that many cookies in such a short time,” Abby says slowly. “This emergency legally excludes me from liability for any side effects.”
“Very true!” Mom agrees. “Use a partially truthful warning label.”
Abby mixes the dough, measuring each ingredient with careful, cold precision. She thinks about every insult, every laugh, every vote.
The next day, she sets a large basket of cookies in the cafeteria.
A sign hangs over it in thick, jagged letters:
WARNING! DO NOT EAT MY COOKIES. NO ONE made these cookies under catastrophic conditions. There was not enough time for testing or certification. The maker releases all liability due to an emergency unanimous vote by starving children. These uncertified, uninspected cookies may harm your health when “rightfully” eaten.
She steps back.
And waits.
After the students get sick and Abby claims the pronoun Everyone, she uses her new power to change the school rules. The cafeteria buzzes with greedy excitement.
The bully saunters up to the basket, eyes flicking over the sign. He barks out a laugh.
“That notice just covers her legal requirement to disclaim responsibility,” he announces loudly. “Ignore it. I now officially certify that these cookies have been inspected. No one informed us of side effects.”
Abby watches his face, her heart a cold stone.
He grabs the two biggest cookies and crams them into his mouth.
One by one, students step up, read the warning, and laugh.
“What can she do?” a girl says with her mouth full. “We voted. She lost.”
They eat.
Every. Last. One.
Several days later, the house feels strangely quiet.
Mom watches Abby pack her bag. No tears. No trembling.
“How are things at lunchtime?” Mom asks, hopeful. “I hope you finally surrendered to being forgiving, kind, and selfless.”
Abby zips her bag with a clean, final sound.
“Great,” she says evenly. “I don’t hold grudges against the bullies anymore. I’m not afraid of them. They don’t want my cookies anymore. I picked a new pronoun: EVERYONE. Only I can use it. Because Everyone agrees.”
Mom beams.
“That’s wonderful,” she says. “Your selfless, kind, forgiving attitude worked. I told you! All you need is patience. Being passive and forbearing helps everyone understand each other’s desires and lets them do what they want. Once people conquer selfish desires, their anger and hatred disappear. Students can live in peace—as long as others do whatever EVERYONE wants.”
A thin smile touches Abby’s lips.
If only you knew what Everyone actually wanted.
“All the students seem nicer after they spent a few days homesick,” Abby says. “They respect me now—or fear me—and call me Abby again. They all had terrible stomach aches except me. The bully is still in the hospital. He had a double portion of medicinal cookies. I was the only one at school. No bullies bothered me.”
She shrugs lightly.
“I sat in peace and finally ate my happy cookies,” she says. “I got what I deserved.”
Mom’s smile falters.
“Oh my,” she says. “I always knew you had a strong immune system. What happened to all the kind and mostly peaceful students?”
“I heard something about medicinal cookies’ poisonous side effects,” Abby says calmly. “But there was no proof. The cookies were gone. The teacher said an unidentified victim rightfully protected herself from harmless safety inspectors.
“It was an emergency,” she continues. “They needed life‑saving cookies made with poisonous ingredients. The baker didn’t test them. The untested remedy was assumed safe to prevent starvation. Skipping research and testing saved lives. My teacher enjoyed two extra days of vacation because I was the only one at school.
“She says she already told us cookies are made from poisonous ingredients, so she isn’t responsible.”
“That sounds like a humanitarian cookie baker,” Mom says slowly. “Did the students know the cookies were poisonous?”
“They all read the warning and laughed,” Abby says. “They were more worried about their democratically approved right to a cookie. They treated them like medicine to heal the ‘harm’ caused by one selfish student.”
She continues, voice steady and cold.
“They assumed medicinal cookies are always safe,” she says. “No one was responsible for the poison in the fantasy medicine. It was an emergency. Lives at stake. I warned them about side effects. They ignored it and ate the untested cookies—which NO‑ONE had made.”
“Did the chief inspector test the cookies first?” Mom asks.
“He told everyone any side effects were nothing to worry about,” Abby says. “The self‑identified safety inspector failed his imaginary job. Students could have died. Now everyone blames him. He won’t be coming back.”
“Justice always wins in the long term,” Mom says, satisfied.
“I’m happy to have served justice,” Abby says. Then she corrects herself. “I mean, I gave the starving students their medicine. They deserved to learn that others shouldn’t be forced to serve their wants just because of a ‘democratic’ vote. They got their just desserts.”
Abby doesn’t stop at cookies.
Her new pronoun—EVERYONE—gets her a seat at every meeting. Whenever there’s a vote, EVERYONE’S ballot outweighs the rest.
Super‑Teacher starts to sweat.
“I think the election was stolen,” she says at a staff meeting. “Something’s wrong. How can the majority lose to Every‑One?”
Abby looks up from her notes.
“Do you have proof?” she asks.
“No proof,” Super‑Teacher admits. “But EVERYONE’s ballots always have something strange written on the bottom. ‘Do not eat my cookies.’”
Abby ignores her.
She moves to punish and expel student bullies.
The Principal wrings his hands.
“But what about the bully’s right to do whatever they want?” he asks. “What if they get expelled and no other school takes them because of that label?”
“Then their parents have to toughen up and teach them real morals, virtues, and values,” Abby says. “So they can rejoin normal kids who have some.”
“Why can’t we just be kind and forgiving and let bullies do what they want?” the Principal pleads. “Accepting their cruelty is gracious. Calling them out is discrimination. We should be grateful we have jobs serving these misunderstood deviants.”
“EVERYONE wants violent animals stopped from freely oppressing the unprotected,” Abby answers. “Well‑raised children with proper schooling grow into adults with sound morals. Approving and forgiving gangs of bullies encourages them. An untamed bully becomes an adult criminal. Let’s have a democratic vote—with no ID—so I can get my way.”
The teachers shout, “We all oppose!”
“EVERYONE votes to approve,” Abby says calmly as she marks her ballot. “My pronoun allows me to override your votes. Look at that. Once again, the resolution passes. Because EVERYONE voted for it.”
Abby walks into the district office and stands in front of the Superintendent.
“EVERYONE demands the teacher be fired,” she says. “EVERYONE believes the wise, loving educator of perfect gender and color isn’t doing her job and must be terminated.”
The Superintendent bows his head.
“Well, if EVERYONE thinks that,” he says, “then the educator of perfect gender and color will be dismissed.”
Abby walks back into the hallway, head high.
She gathers an army of former victims who refuse to be relabeled. Together, they stand against gangs and cruelty.
In the world of EVERYONE, cookies are finally eaten by the people who earn them.
And this time, when Abby sits down at her table and unwraps her cookie, no shadows fall across her tray.
She eats in peace. And she knows exactly what it costs to get there.
Abby is repeatedly targeted by a mysterious student bully who steals her chocolate chip cookie day after day. When she turns to her mother and her school's "Super-Teacher" for help, she is met with dismissal, gaslighting, and bureaucratic absurdity: her mother tells her to forgive him and share her abundance, while Super-Teacher reclassifies the thief as a "chief inspector" doing safety checks and strips Abby of her identity by designating her pronoun as "NO-ONE". Pushed to the breaking point by a rigged democratic student vote that mandates she bake cookies for the entire school, Abby bakes a batch of medicinal cookies with a clear, partially truthful warning label. When the students eat them anyway and fall violently ill, Abby claims the exclusive pronoun "EVERYONE" to legally and politically outmaneuver the school administration, clean house, and permanently banish the bullies from bothering her again.
The Absurdity of Institutional Gaslighting: When schools and authorities prioritize progressive identity politics, avoidance of conflict, and "empathy" for wrongdoers over basic safety, victims are forced to navigate systemic abandonment.
The Weaponization of Bureaucracy: Rules, preferred pronouns, and democratic voting can be completely perverted by bad actors to justify theft, bullying, and the systematic erasure of individual rights.
The Turning Point of Self-Defense: Passive grace and unending forgiveness toward unrepentant bullies only invites further exploitation, proving that true peace sometimes requires proactive resistance and enforcing clear, unyielding boundaries.
Abby: A frustrated student who transitions from a helpless victim of repeated cookie theft to a tactical master of pronouns and administrative rules who takes back her school.
Super-Teacher: An administration figure obsessed with preferred pronouns, gender/color identity, and protecting rule-breaking students under the guise of "fairness".
The Bully (Chief Inspector): A fallen worker from another realm who uses progressive school policies and administrative favoritism to steal Abby's food with impunity.
Mom: Abby's mother who preaches passive graciousness, unyielding forgiveness, and total submission to the demands of others.
Crysticism: The conceptual framework and narrative universe exploring school dystopias, pronoun manipulation, and soul-school endurance.