We weren't this vicious to one another, were we?

You know those cheesey movies with the psycho bully of a girl who thinks she's absolutely perfect? She puts people down because she knows they're better than her? She spreads rumors about the unfortunate just so everyone else can turn against them? She dates guys that are the bullied best friends so she can turn them against them, too?
You'd think that was just a movie, that we were never that dramatic and egotistical, that no one lacks the common sense to actually be that type of person.

Unfortunately, it happens.

The whole classic deal. Two bestfriends, one with a greater character, one with better looks. Let's call them Tara and Laura, respectively. Laura knows Tara is a good kid, so she does what she can to break her. Calls her a slut, a whore, ignores her and says Tara should know what she did wrong to make her act this way.
Then Laura goes off to make everyone else turn against Tara. And the next thing she knows, she has everyone on her side.
Unfortunately,  Tara becomes depressed and starts cutting. She doesn't eat. Cries every night. And when she goes to someone and tells them about it, they just laugh and call her those nasty names. Even her other friend makes it hard on her. Tara tells her friend, and all she does is freak out at her and get mad at her for not telling her. Calls her those nasty names. Makes Tara feel sick. What a friend.
But the thing is, Laura pretends to be depressed, and threatens to the people around her that she'll cut herself. And everyone is sympathetic.

Then you have the boy of a bestfriend. Tara depended on him to be the only nice friend she had left. Laura didn't want that, so she dates him and twists up his mind.

It's so much like a movie, it makes me sick. Why are junior high kids so stupid? So cruel to one another? I think some just watch way too much TV. It frightens me how much some actually enjoy making people feel miserable.

I could rant on some more, but alas, I am falling asleep.

I'm glad that we grow up. Unfortunately,  some don't grow out of their stupidity.