Getting Through the Beginning of School

   Getting through the first week of school is very rough for Melinda, but she manages to do it. And she probably couldn't have done it without her only friend in the school, Heather. Starting the second week of school, Heather decides to try to join the members on probation, and somehow she does it. Melinda is stunned and also jealous. The first project that the other members give Heather is to decorate the teachers' lounge for halloween. Melinda has nothing better to do so she decides to go and help Heather. So, after school they sneak in the teachers' lounge and start to set up. The reason why they're doing it after school is because they don't want the teachers to know who did it; that's part of her job. So they go in the lounge and start setting up fall colors and leaves and all sorts of ornaments, and soon, they're finished. The other members come in and take a look and are astonished at what they see. They now call Heather a "decorating genius." Most of the older members had thought she was going to fail but she proved them wrong. While everyone is chatting in the lounge, Melinda overhears a girl asking Heather why she hangs around Melinda. She starts to say all of these bad things about Melinda and she hears all of them. As soon as Melinda knows that Heather has left the school, she breaks down in tears.