True Friend

She was just looking at her body in the mirror, admiring her curves, after the new diet she had started, when her phone rang. She picked it up immediately, surprised that someone would call her.

"Yeah?"

"Karen, is that you?"

It was Gretchen. Gretchen Wieners. Karen's best friend.

"Gretchen, hey." Karen said, sitting down on her bed, while still watching herself carefully in the full length mirror, right beside her. She couldn't help it. Her butt had gotten so much smaller!

"I'm so glad you're there." Gretchen said, and you could tell she had been crying, "I need someone to speak to. Jason broke up with me… again."

She sniffed, and Karen felt bad for her.

"Why don't you come on over?" she suggested, getting up from her bed, to get a movie, for them to watch.

"I don't wanna be trouble…" Gretchen whispered, but Karen could tell, that she really wanted to come.

"You're never trouble, Gretchen, look, I'm popping in the movie. Get your cute little butt over here."

Gretchen didn't need to answer, because the dial tone was enough to let Karen know, that her friend was coming right over. Gee, she needed to get the low fat soymilk ice cream.

…20 minutes later, they were sitting on Karen's pink couch, eating ice cream out of the same bowl, while watching reruns of Friends. Gretchen had tears streaming down her cheeks, leaving behind a trace of black mascara, while Karen herself, was listening carefully, trying to understand everything her friend was saying, even though she didn't. She knew it herself, she was kinda dumb.

"…and then he said that he got back together with Taylor again, and I told him I loved him, but he didn't care!" Gretchen whined, scooping another spoonful of cookie dough ice cream into her mouth, "I just don't understand what's wrong with me, Karen… I can never get Jason to love me the way I love him. No one loves me."

"I love you." Karen quickly said, mainly because it was the only thing she could think of, and she hoped it'd make her friend feel better.

"Thanks, Karen." Gretchen mumbled, and offered her a small smile. She looked at the bowl for awhile, getting lost in the almost melted ice, which actually didn't taste that good anymore. She looked up, some time later, and said; "Ah, who needs Jason anyway! I've got some new men to love, Ben and Jerry!"

Karen giggled, and quickly took another spoon of ice cream into her mouth, letting the ice slide down her throat, "Ben and Jerry are the best! You can always count on them."

"That's right." Gretchen said, grabbing both their spoons, and placing them in the bowl, before sitting it on the floor beside the couch, "But enough out of them, we can't have us getting fat."

"Okay…" Karen mumbled, her eyes lingering on the bowl for a second too long. She then looked up at Gretchen again, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder, "Are you gonna be okay?"

"I will be." Gretchen said, almost as if she was telling herself so. She then turned her head to look at the blonde again, "Thanks for caring, Karen. Regina would have never cared that much. You're a great friend."

"That's what friends are for." Karen told her, pulling her in for a hug, "You always support me, and I always support you. We support each other."

"Yeah!" Gretchen said, laughing a little, "Yeah, we do."

You're a true friend
You're here till the end
You pull me aside
When something ain't right
Talk with me now and into the night
'Til it's alright again
You're a true friend

Ah, so yeah. That was just a short drabble. I sorta just got the idea, watching my 'Mean Girls' DVD after a very long time of not watching it. I used to be obsessed with this movie, and my favourite character has always been Gretchen. She's just wonderful.

Anyway, it was the scene where they were all supposed to apologise to someone, and Karen apologised to Gretchen about the diarrhoea incident. I just wondered what their friendship has been like, so I decided to sit down and write a scene from their lives. It's set before the movie, and who knows, if I get another idea someday, I might add another scene or something, so if you liked this, put it on alerts (:

I don't really know if a lot of people read 'Mean Girls' fics, but I wanted to write one, so there it is. Please review, it'd mean the world to me.

I don't own 'Mean Girls' or the song 'True Friend' – that one is by Hannah Montana, and it fitted the moment.