It all started half-way through year 10. I was fifteen. Things were going great until one day I was told by a friend that I was going to have my head kicked in by another pupil at my school.

After I had been told this I was very worried. When I went in to school the next day, I saw this girl and I asked her if this was true and why. Her reply was, "Yes" and she wanted to do this because she thought that I had gone up to her in school and said I slept with her boyfriend. I replied that I had not done this and that I had been in a relationship for nearly a year.

The following Monday I went to school and as I was walking up towards my school, there she was standing with a crowd calling me names such as "slag" and "slut".

This went on for about a week or two and she was telling my friends she was going to kick my head in. This was starting to get to me a lot. I went home upset all the time. I was scared of bumping into her and I was becoming depressed.

I went and told my deputy head teacher and his words to me were, "I am not going to have a word with this girl because it might wind things up, but if she does hit you, she will not be able to sit her final GCSEs." He also said, "If she does hit you, you will have to contact the police if it happens outside school".

As I was walking home I bumped into this girl and she was the other side of the road with her boyfriend and a friend with a baby. She started to shout abuse at me. I just ignored her and she did not like this so she crossed over to my side of the road. This then made me very panicky and it didn't help because she was screaming at me.

Then all I saw was a fist flying towards me and smacking me in the face. I tried grabbing hold of her to stop this and she started smacking me in the back which made me fall to the floor because I've got problems with my back. She sat on my arms so I could not move them and was smacking my head on the floor.

The injuries I suffered were a bleeding, a badly bruised head, a whiplash-like injury to my neck and a cut lip. Also I had more pain with my back. When I walked through my front door, I was pouring my eyes out. My mother's boyfriend took me straight to the police station and I reported this.

The following day my mother phoned up the school and spoke to the head teacher. He said I had to go back to school even though he couldn't guarantee my safety. This made my mother very angry, so she phoned up the Board of Governors and told them why I was no longer going to school. Their reply was that they couldn't see any problem with my being released, as they are responsible for my safety until I get home.

We waited and waited for them to get back to us as they said they would, but they did not. Because my mother had not received a phone call from the Board of Governors, she wrote a letter of grievance to someone higher but no-one replied.

My mother then had a phone call from the Welfare Officer saying she would be up later on that day. When she arrived she tried to get me to go back to school. I explained to her how the school had let me down and made me feel angry at the way things were dealt with.

I then found out I was pregnant and was also pregnant when I was hit. When I went for my first scan they told me everything was alright with the baby, so I was pleased.

There were still ongoing threats, so I phoned the police station and asked to speak to the officer who was dealing with my case. They told me she was not in so I left a message for when she returned. I waited for almost two weeks and she did not get back to me. I was really upset because threats were being made to my baby and me.

I phoned the inspector, who was disgusted with the way my case had been treated. He put another officer on to deal with my case. I recieved a call from this officer saying he was waiting for the girl to come back that night from holidays. He was then going down to arrest her.

A couple of days later, I received a call saying the girl had been arrested. If she touched me or threatened me or had anyone hit me, she would be arrested again and put in a cell until the case went to court. I felt relieved. Something had been done at last.

Now everything's going ok so far. I've made new friends and I haven't received any more threats. I'm glad I can carry on as I did before.