"Why are you so pale? Are you an umpire?" Heather asked. Gwen's eyes teared up. After putting up with a whole week of Heather's pathetic insults, Gwen had enough.
"Just shut up and leave me alone!" she said, running off. She started to cry. She was crying immensely by the time she had made it to her special corner of the playground. A girl came up and put her arm around Gwen's shoulders.
"It's okay, girlfriend. Heather doesn't like anybody."
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"You know you just made that girl cry, right Heather?" Bridgette said, her little hands on her nonexistent hips.
"So? What would you know? You got in trouble your first day, Blankey."
"You're just a big fat meaniebutt, Heather." Bridgette said, running away. Lindsay and Courtney, Heather's little sidekicks gasped.
"BLANKEY CALLED HEATHER A MEANIEBUTT!" Lindsay announced.
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"Hey, you okay?" Gwen heard. She lifted her head from her knees. The blonde girl who had been humiliated by the teacher stood before her. Bridgette, as she recalled.
"No." Gwen said.
"It's okay. I gave her what she deserved. And I wouldda thrown I pie at her if I had one like you do at the circus." Bridgette said, adjusting one of the sleeves of her dress.
"What did you do?" Gwen asked with an appalled look on her face.
"Oh, nothing…I called her a big fat meaniebutt. You didn't hear Lindsay scream it out to the entire school?"
"Why did you stand up for me?"
"Because you're nice. And she's been super duper mean to you, and you draw pretty flowers."
Gwen blushed a little at Bridgette's honesty. With her blonde ponytail and her jean dresses, this girl seemed to not only have any tact but to be completely honest about everything. Gwen wondered if she had ever been that way.
"So, girl, what's your name?" Leshawna asked.
"I'm Bridgette. But at school, I'm known as Blankey." Bridgette admitted, her cheeks reddening.
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"WOW. She's really brave, huh?" Geoff said to Duncan. Duncan snatched the binoculars and watched Bridgette tell off Heather.
"Meh. I could do that." he insisted.
"But she's a girl, dude." Geoff said.
"So what?" Duncan said. The truth dawned on him. "You like her, don't you? That's why you chose her for your art partner and you always try to sit next to her."
Geoff pulled his oversized hat down over his face.
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