A/N: Please review!
To: ask. amy at highbury. chronicle. edu
From: jerry. knight at gmail. com
Time Sent: Mon, April 23, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Subject: Your reply to 'Shy Girl'
How could you be so nasty to her? The poor girl only asked for advice, which, as I recall, it's your job to give – how could you snark at her like that? And in front of the whole school, too.
You recognise her writing style just as easily as everyone in the school will, and yet the consequences didn't seem to occur to you. You know she already gets laughed at, and everyone looks up to Ask Amy – you have the power to change peoples' attitudes; but instead you choose to make fun of her and humble her in front of people who will be guided by your treatment of her.
You're so keen to help people when they least require it, Emma. Yet the one time you might actually do some good, you go and do the opposite. I'm telling you this not because I enjoy it – whatever you may think, I don't – but because nobody else will, and you need to know it. Everyone else either thinks you're as perfect as you think you are, or they're too intimidated by you to say anything.
Emma, you can be so much better than this. You are so much better than this. I wouldn't be friends with you if you weren't. But when you do something like this, I feel like I don't even know who you are anymore.