Is it me?

High school. You first go into it with an open mind and the misconception that it will be the best years of your life. After watching movies like The Breakfast Club and Mean Girls, you anticipate that when you get to high school you will find your way to a friend group that will accept you make you feel at home. Hopefully not the loser dorks that get looked down on by the jocks. When Anna first walked into orientation, she walked in with the idea that high school is where she would become who she always wanted to be and find herself as an individual. Unfortunately not everything turns out the way it does in breakfast club. The jocks don't befriend the nerds, the stoners don't accept the prissy girls, and the emos judge everyone. After bouncing from social group to social groups, Anna realized that she didn't have a specific place at her school. Instead of climbing up the social ladder, she seemed to be sliding down at rapid speeds. She was so desperate to "fit in" and be "apart of something better" that she lost track of herself and who she set out to be. She lied and cheated and bashed on people in order to be perceived as being cool or popular. But after a while it all backfired in her face. People began to discover her secrets and her life fell apart. Two years later her past from freshman year still haunts her. Now she fear being social and she subconsciously separated herself from her peers in order to lower the risk of relapsing into her old ways. High school isn't a place where you discover who you are, it's a place where you discover who you DONT want to be.