Even though families are supposed to protect you and have your back, sometimes they might do the exact opposite of that.

This girl knew she had to take matters in her own hand when her older brother kept bullying her! She was very clever with her revenge and has no regrets.

Check out the full story to find out what she did.

Be Smarter Not Stronger

Sorry this is long but it needs context, I am the youngest of 10 kids.

My siblings are 8-20 years older than I am, as my mom had me when she was 40 and I was a surprise.

Things have always been rough in this family…

My parents were abusive so many of my older siblings learned to take their frustrations out on me as I was the most vulnerable.

This made life difficult sometimes as at the age of 10, my sister and brother closest in age to me were a set of twins, Joe and Hannah, (not real names) who were 18.

Now, imagine a 10 year old little girl vs. an 18 year old guy who works in construction.

That was me and Joe.

She hated the way her siblings treated her!

And Joe loved to torment me.

He picked on me, called me names, told me I was a cow, an elephant, (I wasn’t fat back then but he made me think I was.) locked me in the trunk of his car, picked me up with my arms wrapped around me so I couldn’t do anything etc.

But anything he did was ignored because abuse was pretty normal in our house. My dad used to slap me if I asked a simple question so anything Joe did was considered tame.

Anyway, one day, Joe decided to pick on me. I tried to avoid him but if he set his sights on me, I really couldn’t.

This day, he took my bike which was brand new. I got it for my birthday.

That’s so MEAN!

We were poor and we only got new things on birthdays and Christmas.

Joe decided to lock it in his trunk. He kept it for weeks and wouldn’t give it back and of course my parents wouldn’t do anything.

So, one day, Joe buys a brand new pair of sneakers. He worked a good construction job. After several days, I notice he left his sneakers lying around in the living room and he’s out on a date.

Now we lived on a 4 acres, with woods. I decided to take those brand new sneakers through the woods and down to the creek and bury them.

She knew what she was doing!

He looked for those things.

He asked me if I saw them.

I acted like I didn’t even know he had new sneakers.

It wasn’t until 30 years later that I told him.

But every time he did something to me after that day, I did something, like I threw his car keys in the weeds once.

The revenge continues…

One time, he destroyed my boom box, so I took the license plate off his car. (My dad fixed up and sold used cars so we had magna tags etc.)

I became so devious and he never knew it was me.

He had all this outright brawn. But I was smart and quietly got him into trouble left and right.

He never knew.

She has no regrets!

So be careful who you bully, you never know.

He eventually went into therapy, grew up and became a good man but he never knew that I retaliated every time he hurt me.

YIKES! That sounds like a stressful childhood!

Why couldn’t the brother just be civil towards his baby sister?

Let’s find out what people on Reddit commented about this story.

This user shares how their father treated them when they were very young!

This user is so happy that she got her revenge!

This user feels really sad that this girl had to go through all of that trauma!

This user loves their little sister and can’t imagine someone being so mean!

This user finds this story hard to read!

Someone clearly learned their lesson the hard way!

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