Dear Diary,
I don’t understand why my friend Michelle is so mean. I told her a secret about me liking Chris and she went and blabbed to her “new” friends about it. Why would she do that? She promised she wouldn’t tell anyone! Now her and her new friends all whisper about me when I am around.

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Being betrayed by someone you thought was your friend is really hard to deal with. Just remember, true friends will like you for who you are. These girls will only hurt you if you let them. Find other girls who share the same interests as you and remember that there are many people in your school who might feel the same way you do and that you are not alone.

Dear Diary,
Sometimes I don’t like how my friends treat other girls! I’ve tried to tell them that some of the other girls are cool if you get to know them, but then they gave me the silent treatment too. I don’t know what to do sometimes.

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It’s hard to be stuck in the middle. But going along with the popular crowd all the time isn’t always the right thing to do. Try to put yourself in the other girls situation and see how you would feel if you were the other girl, try to say positive things about other people instead of the bad, and try to think about how what you’re saying impacts other people. If you really don’t like what’s going on, try hanging out with other  people who don’t pressure you to act in a way that you don’t like.