We all know them. Those girls who think they’re better than everyone else. They live to bring everyone else down and make themselves look even better.

I remember my best friend back in fifth grade, asking one of the most popular girls in school how you become popular. She said to just start hanging out with someone in the popular crowd and if you have a friend that wants to be popular too, just bring them along. Okay, we tried this and still got rejected.

During a school field trip to a water park there was an empty seat on the bus next to this ‘popular girl’, Candace. It was actually the only seat on the bus I saw that was open, so I sat down next to her. She looked at me and very rudely said, “you can’t sit here.”

There was no where else to sit! So, I just ignored her and sat there. It was very awkward to sit beside someone that clearly didn’t want me sitting there. I was only in 7th grade and didn’t know what else to do! I always looked up to the kids in junior high at how cool they were. I thought that once I changed schools things would change and kids would grow up and be more mature. Boy was I wrong!

On my first day of middle school I put on a brand new outfit that I bought during the summer with my own money that I got from my allowance. I did my hair and thought I looked hot, but people were still mean! When I got into my very first class, I saw there were no chairs left except one in the back so I sat down there. Suddenly this really tall girl with a big nose and messy brown hair came in the room and called me a “chair stealer”! I guess she was sitting there before I got there but left the room for some reason. The teacher told me to sit at the front of the class beside his desk – it was so embarrassing. I mean couldn’t she politely tell me she was there first? Great way to make friends on the first day of school, dummy!

During break, that same girl slammed my best friend’s locker door shut right on her fingers and didn’t say a thing. She just walked on with her big nose up in the air. And people liked this girl? Well it turns out she was mean because her mom recently died – so at the time I felt kinda bad for her. But now I know better. You shouldn’t be mean to people when something bad happens to you. You should be nice to people and try to make friends so you get the love and support you need! Just about everyone was mean throughout middle school. There was one group of girls and guys that everybody liked and were inspired by, and everyone else were just dorks that got picked on and ignored. >>Page 2