QUOTE : That is so mean!” cried Mary Anne. “Why would Nan White start something like that? Well, actually I can see why she would do that, but why would Valerie and Rachel join in and laugh and stuff?”<br /><br />“I don’t know,” I replied. “I’m glad they’re not close friends. If they were, I’d feel like a real outcast. Instead, I just feel … hurt, I guess.”<br /><br />“You have every right to feel hurt,” spoke up Jessi. “They were being cruel.”<br /><br />“I wonder why some kids always want to hurt other kids,” I mused.<br /><br />“I don’t know,” said Jessi slowly. “I guess Nan was just born that way.