his cheeks turned rosy pink and he stuttered as he said, “Oops!”
Jen looked back at him and uttered, “Idiot,” and shook her head as she chuckled. Of course, knowing middle schoolers, everybody started to laugh. She didn't seem like herself. Even her voice sounded like it came out of a different person. The Jenny that I thought I knew would never even consider doing something like that. I told myself that she was probably having a hard day and it accidentally blurted out. So, I ignored it. A few days later the same incident occurred but with a different guy. His name was Nate, and he had had blue rimmed glasses that were so small, you could barely tell he was wearing them. We were all talking about our story that we had to read for language arts and he was stating his opinion. Jenny cut him off mid sentence saying, “Nobody cares.” She was trying to be “cool” and Neal tried to laugh it off. I could tell he was hurt. You could practically feel his self confidence dropping. Jenny had always wanted to be one of the “popular girls” and I guess this was how she was intending to get there. I overheard someone say a while back that you become who your friends are. I didn't want to start acting like her. If your friends don’t bring out the best in yourself, then they're not really your friends at all. After that, I drifted from Jenny. Not only did those two incidents make us drift, but she just changed into a completely different person. I'm glad that I started to back down then because now I have friends that really do bring out the best in me. Isn't that what friends are for in the long run anyways?
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