I went to a small k-12 school when I was a child and teen, with the same three girls in my grade the whole time. Other kids would come and go, but the four of us were always there. My stepmother told me, “It’s better to have no friends than bad friends,” but there were times when I couldn’t really agree. There were rumors, there was intrigue, there was jealousy, bullying, shunning, passive aggressiveness.