True Life...

I Was Harassed By My Clique

     This year was great!  I was popular, I had amazing new friends from the school that merged with ours, and I loved it!  One weekend I got sick with some sort of virus, it was going around at the time.  I was sick for 4 days including monday and tuesday, so I had to miss school and not see my friends.  You can imagine that I felt really out of the loop when I got back to school because I had missed 2 days of everything.  Finally when I got back on wednesday, my friend informed me of something.  All my "friends" at my lunch table had been talking about me when I was out sick.

     I was shocked that all my close and best friends had talked about me when I had no chance of defending myself.  It was a scary thought knowing that you couldn't trust a lot of your close friends enough to leave for a few days and know that they would talk about you!  I was really mad at all my friends, especially my 2 best friends at my school who sat at the table with me who had also talked about me.  When I got home from school that day I was outraged!  I called my best friend on the phone and started getting all my feeling of hatred and spite out on to her, because she was my best friend who talked about me.  I had a tone if my voice and everything and I was so mad I was on the verge of crying out of hatred for them.  After I stopped talking, my "best friend" started crying horribly on the phone.  It was sad hearing her but I was so mad I didn't really care and I just hung up the phone and ran to my room.

     The next day, I went to my "friend's" websites and left comments that said "I'm mad at you..." amd things like that.  After I sent those comments, things started to get really ugly.  My group of friends (you might call it a clique, but I don't think it is) split up into 3 groups.  There was the group against me, the not taking sides group, and the my side team.  There were 5 people in the group against me when I didn't even do anything, 2 people in the not taking sides group, and lastly, 2 peope in the group on my side of the arguement. 

     Then that night, I went to the movies with 5 of my other friends and me.  It wasn't a great movie, but it was fun to be with all my friends after all this drama!  After the movie 4 of us went to my friend's house to hang out and spend the night there.  After we got there, we went to a smoothie place called Smoothie King, and we were just hanging out, talking, and having a great time.  We were even going to teepee one of our guy friends and we went to the grocery store and got the teepee and everything.  Then, all of the girls who were against me were mad at Jill for her telling me about them talking about me.  So, then the girl who told me, called them to say that she was sorry and that was when all the drama started.

     When Jill called the girls who were against her and myself, we wanted to talk to a specific girl.  But, just our luck, another girl picked up the phone and said, "No, go away Ally doesn't want to talk to you right now!" She said it in a really mean tone too so me and Jill started freaking out!  After that, it kind of turned into a calling war between me and Jillian, and the other girls who were against us.  My best friends, the ones who were not taking sides, just sat there listening to the insults and things that went on between groups.  Finally the calling war ended and me, Jill, Sara, and Morgan went over to the couches in Jill's basement and started to watch TV.

     In the morning, me and Jillian were worried out of our minds.  We weren't sure if the girls were still mad at us, of if they were over it yet.  They had basically killed our social life, leaving us mean comments on our web sites and more.  It was a disturbing expreience.  I wasn't even sure if me and my best friends were friends anymore.  For the rest of the day, I was just sitting at home or hanging out with Jillian and Morgan.  Me and Jill were both really scared to go to school on monday, which was only one day away...

     Finally the dreaded day came.  At school in first hour, there was one of the mean girls in my class.  We avoided each other, even though we had been almost best friends before the fight.  I avoided all of the girls until lunch.  During lunch, I sat at a different lunch table with my other friends and Jill.  Towards the end of lunch, the girls who had been so mean to me came over to me at the other table.  They told me they were sorry for talking about me, and they had never been mad at me, they were just mad at Jill for telling me.  I forgave them, because they apologized and I wanted to be nice.  After that we all hugged and all that stuff and it was basically all better except 2 things...

     The girls still haven't forgiven Jill all the way and some of them are still mad at her.  I feel really bad though, because I know exactly how she feels right now.  Also, now I have trust issues with those girls because now I don't feel like I can trust them if I would ever leave the school.  Drama in middle school is worse than most people think, and I just wanted people to know how it feels to be in it first hand.

Thanks,

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