title: My Inside Is Brighter Than My Outside: How I Overcame Bullying
author: Simply Badd
description: Simply Badd is a former professional wrestler with eighteen years in the ring. He worked for the UWA and a number of promotions, capturing individual and tag team gold titles. He is the founder of S.B.O.P., Stop Bullying on Purpose, and works with numerous anti-bullying programs, including the WWEs Be A Star campaign.
zlib_text: **One**
  
  The first time I met Hunter Zaccadelli, I punched him in the face. Granted, he
  completely and totally deserved it. He also asked for it, in so many ways.
  
  When our fourth roommate bailed on us three days before school, Darah, Renee
  and I assumed housing would take care of it and shove some poor unfortunate in
  with us. Probably some poor girl who had decided to switch colleges at the
  last minute to follow a boyfriend, or someone who had their apartment plans
  fall through. We weren't sure what to expect, but come move-in day, I did not
  expect who was waiting outside when I opened the door. I knew the upper-class
  housing was co-ed, but never in my wildest and craziest dreams did I think it
  would actually happen to us.
  
  Instead of a desperate and frazzled girl, he showed up with a footlocker,
  backpack and a guitar. It was so beyond cliché that I didn't say anything for
  the full three seconds it took for me to assess him. Dark hair buzzed so short
  his head was almost shaved, purpos