Article December 19, 1994 Issue

What Matters to You

What if my friends don't approve?

Carol Rockhold Miller

Can you imagine what it's like when all of a sudden your friends give you the "silent treatment"? They don't speak to you for days or weeks? That happened to me in the ninth grade.

I may not have been everybody's favorite, but I felt I was accepted by both boys and girls. I had even been elected class president the year before. Then, suddenly, no one spoke to me—no girls, that is. At chorus practice, in the lunchroom, even in the girls' restroom, not a word was said to me. And all my girlfriends avoided any contact with me outside school as well.

After days of this silence, I realized why. Lately, I had been walking home from school with a boy the other girls liked. We'd also gone to basketball games and other events together. After we had been in a school play together, he and I had become friends, and he started calling me up and asking me out.

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