Why I'm Not Like Them

Socially awkward



A group of sixth-grade girls sat around a wooden dinner table at a birthday party.
“Heather’s sweet sometimes, but she just thinks she’s all that, you know? She thinks she’s so freakin’ hot. She just constantly talks about her boobs or Chase McCrory or something,” said a girl who had been Heather’s best friend since the third grade.
“I can’t stand that girl. She gets on my nerves,” said another who only felt that way when she wasn’t crying on Heather’s shoulder about her boyfriend breaking up with her.
“She acts like such a bimbo,” said someone who wanted to be like Heather so bad it wasn’t funny.
“She’s the kind of person who thinks she can get any guy she wants,” announced somebody who felt the exact same way about herself.
All this was being watched and overheard by a girl who, for the first time in her life, didn’t want to be like everyone else.