Mean girls
By: Zaynab Farid
Tags: Mean Girls, Short Story, Stop Bullying, Stop Hatred, Bullying

By: Zaynab Farid

I’ve been at my school for a couple of years now and every year is the same, same groups, same mean girls and same “popular kids”. Sure, every year new kids come but soon enough they get swooped into one of the groups. Well anyway, This year was basically the same new kids getting swooped into their “cliques”. In my class there’s basically two rules of “survival” 1. You MUST know all of the latest gossip and 2. You have to be nice to the “queen bee” of the class. Well, in my class the “queen bee” (named Mila) thinks that she’s amazing because shes been at our school since preschool (she has not) and because she claims her grandmother basically MADE our school (she didn’t). So anyway, Mila is the boss in our class everyone knows don’t mess with her unless you want to have dirt spread about you. It could be anything as simple as saying something you overheard her talking about to her little “squad”. Thats what happened to me except I made the best of my situation.

So, Mila and a boy in my class named Ayden were talking about one of my friends named Addison and they kept complaining and complaining about her and they were doing a weird hand movement while saying that she did this and oh she did that. I was so confused so, I leaned over and asked a sort of popular girl who sat next to me “ What does that hand signal mean? And why are they doing it” she looked at me and said “ you can’t tell anyone ok? Not even Addison” I nodded “well..” she said “ Mila, Adyen, Sadie, Emi, Melanie and me” (the mean girls clique) “ were on a group call and we came up with this” she said as she showed my the hand signal “ and it basically means Addison is or is being a B****” she made me promise again not to tell anyone not even Addison which I thought was just mean. After class I was walking down the hall when I saw Addison talking to one of her friends named Delilah so, I walked up to them and told addy the whole story “what the heck!! Why did they do that!!” she fumed I nodded at her as if I knew exactly why they did that. She just shook her head and called over one of my other friends Tami, As soon as Tami walked over Addison started explaining everything. Tami just shook her head and said “Its not that shocking though Addison, Mila just does that sort of stuff and we all know it.” I nodded my head as Addison said to us “ That’s it! I’m sick and tired of Mila ruining our lives with untrue rumours or stuff like this!!” She started walking to Mrs.Schimelmans room Mrs.Shimelman is the best teacher in school and all of the kids who have been taught by her know it. When we all got to Mrs.Schimelmans room we saw that they were in the middle of recess Mrs.Shimelman frantically trying to quiet them all. As soon as we walked in she gave us a big smile, We walked over and told her what happened. After we finished explaining Mrs.Schimelman looked at us and said “ you guys have to tell the principal!” then we said that we would but we needed some more “evidence”. Mrs.Schimelman told us that would be a good idea, So our plan was we would go to recess and lunch then after Mrs.Schimelman would pick us up from our classes and we would go tell the principal everything.

After recess we decided to confront them we each would take a turn getting up from our table to go over to one of the girls in the “mean group” and we would ask them each what that hand signal meant.

Each time they said something different one time they said “nothing” another time they said “why should I tell you” and one time they said “ I don’t know so go away” after lunch we went with our teacher to the principal’s office (Mrs.Schimelman couldn’t come so our homeroom teacher did). When we went in we waited for our principal to arrive when she did we all sat down and we explain everything as she took notes.

Afterward all of the “mean girls” were acting as if it didn’t ever happen and there always nice to us.

-Zaynab Farid