"Don't let them treat you like this anymore" Zach said to me as I cried in his arms. "You are worth more than this, you have to stand up to her" "I don't think I can", I would always say. "You can do anything you put your mind to Nic" "Do you really think so" "No. I know so. You need to find your strength" Nicole Grellen has been bullied her whole life. She only has one friend and is seen as a nerd in everyone's eyes.She lives with her demanding stepmother, and a father that is never home. At home she is like Cinderella with her evil stepmother only in nerd form. She had no one except the only person that really cared about her. Zach. He is all that matters to her. The only thing keeping her from crumpling under everything going on. This is the story of a girl who was tired of being pushed around and wanted to get away from it all, the way she found her strength in a boy she has always loved, and how she escaped it all. This is my story, I am Nicole Grellen.