The Pack Mentality - A High School Story

Mrs. Leighton, my Mom said I should tell you my story. So here it is, I am a Freshman in High School. HS Girls are mean, I mean really nasty. But what’s worse is you never see it coming! The best you can do is try to stay out of their way or try to be their friends, and MAYBE they won’t pick on you. But sometimes you just have to stand up for what’s right even when you know it won’t be popular.

So like some of the girls in the popular crowd (I was in it too) decided they had to make sure none of the other girls in the group had any other friends, outside the popular group. They made a list of the friends we could have, the clothes we should wear and even the boys we could like! I was out that day. The next day when I went to school they told me I had to dump some of my “other” friends. Because one had zits, another was a geek, another… well you get the picture. These “other” friends were good friends. The truth is I like them better than the popular crowd. But when you are in the popular crowd everything (Boys, school, lunch, parties, football games…) is soooo much easier.

I told them I didn’t know about that, and could I think about it? They smiled (looking back it was kinda creepy) and said I could. That Friday we had a sleepover like we always did. I got there late because I had dance after school. What I didn’t know was that some of them were hiding in the closet. They tried to get me to say bad things about them, when I didn’t they jumped out and laughed. It wasn’t a good feeling.

That Monday I told them to forget it, I’d rather be friends with “real friends” than with them. They made my life a living h--- for a while, but they got tired of it, and things are pretty quiet now. And you know what’s really funny? The boy I liked on the Football team? The one they said was “on their side” didn’t know about it, didn’t care about it and is my best guy friend. Who knew?!