Junior high is a confusing time of a teenage girls life. I experienced this first hand. Starting in about 6th grade , I started getting sucked into the vicious cycle of mean little girls. We had always had about 20 less girls than boys in our grade and our little population had always been exceptionally catty compared to the girls in the other grades but things really started getting sketchy in upper middle school and junior high. We would randomly decide that we didn't like of of the girls in our small group of 7. Over the course of the next few months we would proceed to make that one girl feel terrible and try to ditch her every chance we got. It was like mean girls in real life.
When I finally started to realize that it was wrong, it was Kenzi's turn to be the odd man out in 7th grade. She had been one of my closest friends in the group since 3rd grade and I felt terrible every time i thought about how were treating her. But did I do anything about it? Of course not! What if they decided to turn on me?!? Yeah I was that shallow. But karma came back to bite me in the butt. in the end of 8th grade my biggest fear came true, I suddenly realized that I was the hated one, the new outcast and I remember looking to Kenzi to be the one who still talked to me because we were best friends right? Wrong. She did to me just as I had done to her months earlier.
I somehow made it thought the rest of the school year with some of my sanity intact and when we started high school volleyball the next fall, things had changed again. the girls started talking me me again and informed me that now everyone didn't like Maddie. I had learned my lesson though and decided to stay out of it. Angie and I slowly became best friends and worked our way away from the group and away from the drama. Slowly that original group of seven disintegrated and all the drama stopped. We are all still good friends and we have all learned our lesson and will never treat each other that way again.
In those shady years I let the "Mob Mentality" got the best of me and I acted completely out of character for me, I have never been a mean person or wanted to hurt anyone and I feel terrible knowing that I caused my close friends pain. But thank God I learned my lesson and I will never stoop that low again!
