The Lonely Girl (Short Story)

by Bethany Shannon, Grade 8, QLD

When we started high school this year there was a couple of people that were the only ones from their primary
school, but there was this one girl that wasn't just the only one from her primary school, she had moved from
the other side of the country. On the orientation day this girl was sitting at a table all by herself. There were
teachers standing near her. When she was eating lunch she heard a girl talking to the year level coordinator, she
was saying that she was the only one from her primary school. Within about 2 minutes, a girl went up to her
and took her to her group of friends. The girl sitting by herself decided to go up to the year level coordinator.
She said that she had no friends, hoping that a student would hear her, but no students walked up to her, as
they did with the other girl.

After about a week of sitting by herself she finally made friends. After about a week the girl got bored of doing
the stuff that they liked to do. One lunch the girl spotted two girls sitting together laughing. They were also two
girls in her class that had been really nice to her, so she went and sat with them. They were really nice to her
until they started to hangout with some other girls that she didn't like. One day she accidentally said something
to one of the girls that she didn't like, that hurt the girls the feelings. She said sorry so many times but they all
left her by herself and they wouldn't talk to her. At this stage the girl didn't have any other friends that she
could turn to.

One day she was at school early, so she sat by herself, watching the popular kids having so much fun together.
She wished that one of them saw her and asked her to hangout with them, but didn't. For about a week after
this she would sit by herself every lunch, and she would cry every night, wishing for friends. Eventually she
started hanging out with the girls that she had a fight with, but it seemed different. The girls didn't seem it like
her anymore, even though she said sorry at least three times every day.

One night she decided to text one of the popular girls. The girl text back within a minute. The girl said that she
could hangout with the popular group. So the next day she did. She hung out with the popular group for about
a week. But the nice girl had stopped hanging out with them, so she did too. About three weeks later she text
the nice girl and asked her if she could hangout with her new group of friends. The nice girl said that she
probably wouldn't fit in, she was right. The girls weren't nice to her at all. After about a week she texted
another popular girl that was in that group of friends. She hung out with them for about 4 weeks. Until she
heard some of those girls saying things about her.

They didn't know that she had been bullied at four of the schools that she had been to. So this made her even
more upset.

Even though she was going through really hard times, there was always the nice girl there for her, always willing
to give a hug. That girl is now who I call my best friend. I am still going through hard times but she's always
there for me.