Now, it’s sixth grade!! Woohoo!! A year for her to finally create a new life!! (Sure…) I mean sure, it’s true that she knew absolutely no one in her classes. But she would make friends fast, right? Right? I honestly don’t know what she was expecting, everyone obviously knew someone, she was the new girl, the outcast. But it’s sixth grade let’s cut them some slack. So yes, she didn’t make friends immediately but she did make friends. In fact she met the girl who is her best friend up till this day! But you know sometimes one friends just isn’t enough. I’m not trying to discount the help the best friend did, I’m only saying that it wasn’t enough.
So many enemies in one year where do I start. I’ll start with her first one. It was a girl in her class that we will call for the sake of the story, mean girl. (I know. “Oh, she’s stereotyping, arrest her!!” It’s just for the story.) Anywho, I don’t think that she, (let, from this point forward, call her SWSNBN: she who shall not be named), did anything to mean girl. Mean girl just started to be mean. One day mean girl was passing a paper back to SWSNBN but instead of passing it to her, mean girl just throws it backwards hitting SWSNBN in the face. It hurt. SWSNBN was really upset.
Of course anyone would be, but that’s just the beginning. Next, while SWSNBN was taking a paper to a teacher to turn in, she heard some very mean things being said about her by mean girl to others. It stung. At this time SWSNBN had a messaging app she could use to contact her parents, and she told her mom about it. You think it’s a weak move, I think it’s strategy. SWSNBN couldn’t help but cry. You see, 6 years in elementary school can really take down a person's self esteem and not to mention that she was having her self esteem ripped out of her on a daily.
Next is the repeating behavior. We would be here forever if I told you everything that happened to SWSNBN, so we will just skip to the guidance counselor. The whole “you bullied me and I told the guidance counselor” thing. And then the whole “I’ll tell the guidance counselor that I won’t bully you but I totally will” thing courtesy of mean girl. Normal behavior, right? It’s not, oh, well, whoops.
It’s about halfway through the sixth grade year, time for the friend betrayals. One day the best friend, who had previously switched teams much to the sadness of both of them, was saying that one of SWSNBN friends, who we will call singer, was saying that she hated SWSNBN and the way she acted. Well being the good friend that the she was, the best friend asked “In what way does she act?” Singer answers “She acts to much like herself and I hate it.” Apparently in sixth grade common sense hasn’t developed totally yet. I mean seriously, she acts like herself, really? Is that the best you can do? Sorry, I’m judging the past, never do that.
So only one friend betrayal not good enough for you, well that’s alright. In this story we have three, that’s right, three. (I know you are all probably thinking why am I acting so happy. Well if I wasn’t funny, you probably wouldn’t have read this far. Don’t lie to yourself about it.) Another was a friend that she kept at a distance, one day SWSNBN and some of her friends were poking fun at one of their friends about liking a person with her same name. Immature? Sure, but again this is sixth grade. One of SWSNBN’s friends suddenly catches on and turns around and blurts out, “Hey one of my friends likes you” and turns back around (The guy the girl liked was sitting at the table behind them).
Everyone at the table was flabbergasted (if you don’t know what it means, look it up). SWSNBN had the courage to say “What the heck is wrong with you? Why would you tell *insert name here* that *insert name here* liked him?” She looked shocked and said “I thought it was you that liked him.” And the friend of the year award goes to… not her. (I know I shouldn’t be so sarcastic, but I just can’t help it). So that happened. SWSNBN never trusted her again. Can you blame her?
Last friend betrayal for the year, a close friend! Her name was Fake. *Any resemblance to a real person is unintentional all characters are fake-ish*. One day Fake just busted out saying that SWSNBN was a dictator and a hypocrite. SWSNBN was not expecting it (of course who would be) and started to cry. Sixth grade has quite a bit of crying doesn’t it, oh well. Fake never seemed to be around SWSNBN, so all if fixed, right? Wrong!!
A day at lunch, SWSNBN was just reading and eating at the table with her friends, when Fake comes and sits next to her. Being the smart bean that she was, SWSNBN asked what she had done to Fake. Never ask that of a bully. Fake responded with her montra, “You’re a hypocrite and a dictator”. Now SWSNBN asks the sensible question, “Can you tell me when and how I do it, so I can fix it?”. A bully never reveals her secrets, Fake just repeats what she said before. And let the tears flow free. At the end of sixth grade year Fake pretends to be SWSNBN’s friend. Sixth graders, so confusing *Insert eyeroll*. But sixth grade ain’t over yet.
You know how there’s always that one annoying kid. Well he sat next to SWSNBN in class and annoyed the heck out of her. Yeah, that’s the whole story. A little short? Sure. But that is the whole story. Scout’s honor. (I was never a girl scout).
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