Adrienne

**Adrienne Grayson** was the best friend of Shannon in the graphic novel Real Friends. Later in the story, she transfers to a gifted and talented program. She was very popular and a member of the Group. In Shannon's fantasies, she is portrayed as a princess.

## Personality

Adrienne is popular but she still kind to Shannon. She doesn't always know whether to hang out with Shannon or the popular girls, and often goes with the popular girls because of peer pressure. Other times she hangs out with Jen and Shannon.

Adrienne was good friends with Shannon. She is sort of loyal to her because she was her first friend in kindergarten, and helped her through a lot in her past years.

Adrienne is very smart, as shown when she transfers to a gifted and talented program elsewhere. She calls Shannon and tells her that some of her classes are with high schoolers. She also admits that Shannon is obnoxious, showing that she is truthful and not afraid to speak her mind. Adrienne is also very kind as because it shows that she helps Shannon when she falls down at the beginning of the book.

She is very hot and cold, as sometimes she seems to be close with Shannon and wants to hang out with her and other times doesn’t believe her and would rather hang out with Jenny. It appears that Adrienne might only still talk to Shannon out of pity and because Shannon helped Adrienne when she was younger.

## Appearance

Adrienne is a pretty girl (as stated by the book) with light skin and long blonde hair that she often wears in two braids pulled back behind her head, or down. She has blue eyes. She's seen in lots of different outfits throughout the book, all of which Shannon admits are very stylish. Her theme color is pink.

## History

**Kindergarten**

At first, Adrienne was sad because she had no friends. Shannon cheered her up, though, and they became good friends. They played together after school, and they became the best of friends. She was very nice to Shannon, and the two were perfect matches.

**First grade**

Jenny wants Adrienne to be friends with her instead of Shannon.Jenny also created a "I Hate Shannon" club. Adrienne only stays for one day, and seems to start slowing drifting from Shannon, but the two are still very close.

**Second grade**

Adrienne was becoming more popular and more and more people were wanting to become her friend. One day while walking home from school with Shannon, she was grabbed by a boy, who kissed Adrienne repeatedly. Shannon chased away the boys, and she hit the boy kissing Adrienne. Adrienne got frustrated with Shannon because she actually wanted to kiss the boy. Shannon felt bad and Adrienne apologized for acting mean. This was the year that Shannon realized Adrienne had other friends. Adrienne moved away soon after, and moved back near the beginning of third grade.

**Third grade**

Shannon is happy that Adrienne has moved back, but Adrienne wants to be friends with Jen. Jen was already friends with Jenny, so Shannon thinks that maybe Jen won't take Adrienne away from her. Adrienne stays with Shannon when Jenny bullies her. Later, she is ranked second place in who Jen likes best, but Shannon goes last. Shannon, Jen, and Adrienne play Secret Charlie's Angels together after school one day, and Shannon feels included. This year, Adrienne starts outgrowing Shannon, and her personality better fits Jen.

**Fourth grade**

Adrienne is present while the group rating-calls the boys. Adrienne gets rated 10 in looks and 8 in personality. Later, Adrienne plays orphans with Jenny, Jen, and Shannon. Adrienne stands up for Jenny when she claims that she made up the game that Shannon actually made up. Shannon wishes that she and Adrienne could leave the group. Adrienne admits that Shannon is obnoxious, much to Shannon's dismay and Wendy's(Shannon’s sister)delight. Jenny invites Adrienne to her party, and Adrienne becomes irritated because Shannon tells her that she has the better ideas of the two. Shannon asks Adrienne to leave the group, but she declines because she thinks the group will be mad at her. Adrienne does not stand up for Shannon, and thinks Shannon is jealous.

**Fifth grade**

Adrienne moves to a gifted and talented program and is called by Shannon. This shows that Adrienne has changed and no longer associates with the group, although as she does talk to Shannon she may still talk to Jen, especially since Adrienne and Jen go to the same church.

**Sixth grade**

Shannon invites Adrienne to go camping with her. Shannon falls asleep in the car and Adrienne gets upset and because of that Adrienne plays with Shannon's little sister. Later, Shannon tries to explain that the car sickness pill made her sleepy but Adrienne still thought what Shannon did was rude and said they don't have anything to talk about anymore. It is shown that Adrienne seems very mature. The two 6th grade friends go their separate ways and never see each other again (Even during the 3rd book).