I knew people from middle school, but had never really bothered to take time out to get to be in their own group. Thinking that I might be spending the rest of my high school life by myself, I kept an open mind about what I would do about making friends. At the orientation, I spotted some people that I had hung around with during the 8th grade outing. We met up, and after the start of school, we got close. Thus, we formed our own clique.
Cliques can grow rapidly or slowly.
Certain cliques at school are so huge that their members aren't always that close with each other. Do I enjoy my own little circle of friends. Although we don't all enjoy the same stuff all the time, we respect each other. I observed in the past three years that cliques tend to be rather closed to totally new members. We were very friendly with other friends that had begun to hang around with us, but I noticed that we never totally included them into the clique.