Me too until I waited for the bully and rammed his face into a chain link fence as if we were in a cage match. Problem solved.
I made the mistake of thinking I could run to my great grandmother to save me. She saw me running down the street crying and locked her screen door on me. She told me to get my butt back out there in the street and wait for the bully.
When the bully saw me standing my ground he decided to walk on the other side of the street and never had a problem again. We ended up as friends but there was no way to avoid him in our tiny town.