Nibbles in the Middle

It’s Laurabeard here. I was hoping this school year was going to get better, but instead it seems to be getting worse. The other day I went over to Nibbles’ locker to show her my new pencil case and Janice was standing there with her. My brother bought me this cool, retro Monkey & Monkey pencil case. It’s from this vintage shop he found on his travels and I thought it was really neat. But Janice said “That’s weird. Who would want someone’s old pencil case? Why didn’t he just buy you a new one?” I told Janice that was really rude and maybe she should go find Purr-Cilla and leave us alone. Janice said to chill out – that she didn’t mean anything by it. Then she said who was I to tell her what to do – she and Nibbles were hanging out first and maybe I should mind my own business. I told her Nibbles and I had been friends, like, forever and then Janice said didn’t I take off on Nibbles last year and go away just when she really needed a friend because Plumpy was getting married? Nibbles turned to Janice and said that when she told her what a hard time she had last year she didn’t mean that at all. Nibbles was telling Janice about me going away last year? Nibbles said that we were making a big deal of nothing that we should all hang out after school but I said no thanks. I don’t need to hang out with rude people like Janice. Then Janice said she didn’t need to hang out with people who abandon their friends. I wasn’t going to stand there and take that. I left. Nibbles kept calling after me, but the bell rang and we had to go to class then.