Chapter 3:

It was just another horrible day at school. The rain hammered down and Mary missed the bus, so she had to walk all the way home. Without her Mother noticing, she raced upstairs and hibernated in her room, watching non-stop YouTube.

"And that is how you make a bubble gum flavour lipstick. Tune in next week for a full episode on one of YOU! Just write something in the comments on why you watch Cookie Dough on YouTube. BYE!" Enthusiastically, Mary's favourite YouTuber, Cookie Dough, waves at the screen as the video faded out. Immediately, she scrolled down to the comments area and before she could type in a comment, she saw a video. It was entitled: 'Welcome to St Bernadette's Private College Miss Mackwood!'

Mary was horrified. She put on the video and of course, her life couldn't get any better, but only worse. Published on 23rd May, 2018 (3 days before) and it had 408 views, still counting... "Oh m-my word, who posted this thing? ... Olivia? Hmmmm... What about Olivia's horrible f-friend Lucy?"

Curiously, she scrolled down to see the poster's name. Of course! It was Charlotte! "CH-CHARLOTTE?! Of course, she kept on saying s-sorry! Grrrrrrr! She will have to p-pay for this!" Angrily, she did her homework and vowed to never watch YouTube... AGAIN.

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At lunchtime, the four friends were eating lunch in the canteen. She picked at her horrible tuna salad, dreaming about the delicious curly fries she would devour at her old school in America.

"Oooh! That cupcake looks good Emma! What is in it?" Grace asked Emma curiously. Grace loved baking and science. And pretty much every subject in the whole world that involves smart stuff.

"Oh this.. this is real good! The filling is protein bar and the icing, bacon." Emma replied, like it was the most obvious thing in the entire world. Grace looked at her as if she was the gum attached to the bottom of her shoe.

"Mary, are you ok?" Charlotte asked almost mockingly.

"N-NO! J-JUST LEAVE M-ME ALONE!!!" At that very moment when Mary shouted, she slammed the table. The tuna salad fell all over Charlotte, who looked horrified.

"Oh so you wanna play it like that, super stammer?" Charlotte cheekily said, holding Emma's protein cupcake in her hand. SMACK! WHASH! BOOM! It all ended up in a food fight.

Before long Charlotte and Mary were sitting in Ms Higgin's office. "MACKWOOD? FOXX? I EXPECTED A LOT MORE OF YOU! YOU ARE BOTH SUSPENDED! PHONES PLEASE!" The Headteacher barked. They were both on the brink of tears. Mary's shaggy brown side fringe was covered, completely covered in cupcake icing with flecks of bacon sticking out of it. Charlotte's glossy blonde hair was fine, but her whole uniform was covered head to toe in tuna salad.

"Oh Mary! I AM SO DISAPPOINTED! YOU ARE GROUNDED!" Mary's Mother cried. Mary sadly walked upstairs. She only had one friend to chat to now...

Diary, oh diary!

I can't do this anymore. I'm putting you where you belong. This is my last ever entry. I will miss you to death but obviously you don't deserve me. I'M A HORRIBLE FRIEND!

Mary XXX

Mary sadly chucked her diary away and cried herself to sleep. She thought, "Tomorrow is another day. I hope......"