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TIFU by starting a full-scale classroom war with a stool, flower pots, and a ripped cabinet door

This happened towards the end of the school year.

A little context: There’s this guy at my school who has been bullying me forever. He’d trip me up in the hallways, try to steal the food I bought with my own money, just classic toxic behavior. But one day, I completely snapped. He walked up, casually tore an entire page out of my textbook, and smirked: "Oh ops, guess you’ll just have to buy a new one."

I stood up, seeing absolute red. Now, I’m not a fighter. I knew if I went in with my fists, I’d get beaten up three times harder. So I didn't think of anything better than to grab a heavy wooden stool and throw it straight at him.

It missed, but it triggered a total meltdown.

He panicked and started grabbing classroom potted plants off the windowsill, chucking them at me one by one. I dodged the dirt and pots, so he ran out of flowers and started pelting me with pieces of chalk like a machine gun. I was just ducking behind desks.

When he completely ran out of ammo, he was breathing heavily, went full psycho mode, and yelled: "Alright, you're dead!" He grabbed the wooden locker cabinet and literally ripped the door right off its hinges with a loud crunch.

Right at that exact second, our homeroom teacher walked in.

Total silence. Dust and dirt everywhere, smashed flower pots on the floor, chalk powder in the air, me holding a stool, and him standing there with a cabinet door in his hands. We just stared at her. She stared at the chaos, looked at us, and calmly said: "Follow me."

Long story short: we were dragged to the principal. I tried to explain that he provoked me and I only threw one stool in self-defense, but the principal just hit me with: "Well, you escalated it, didn't you?"

In the end, my parents were called, I spent the rest of the afternoon sweeping up dirt and plant roots in the classroom, while the bully was forced to spend hours trying to reattach the locker door with superglue.

TL;DR: Got tired of a bully tearing my textbook, threw a stool at him. He retaliated by throwing potted plants and chalk at me, then ripped a locker door off. We both got caught, I had to clean up the dirt, and he had to superglue a whole door back on.

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