I have best friend problems. I used to be best friends with this girl named Leah. Or that's what I thought. One Friday night at our school disco I stole money of a teacher. I know its a bad thing to do but it's just because Leah told me that she had taken some so I took some too. I only took $5 but I felt really bad about it. Here let's start from the beginning. So me and Leah were best friends at the time and she had come for a sleepover and then we could go to the disco together. At my house she was talking about stealing money but I wasn't really paying attention because we were FaceTiming my friend Isla and I was deep in conversation. Then we went to the disco and Leah was like “Oh let's go and steal money

from one of the teachers here” and I said “Okay let's go” and of course I was only joking and didn't take her seriously but Leah pranced off into the crowd and I stood there thinking, ‘She's not actually going to do it is she?’ because Leah was a really nice girl even if she was a little bit blunt and forthright. But when she came back she was grinning and said ¨I did it” and then disappeared into the mass of people. But then Leah reappeared and said “You should go do it to” “Um no thanks,” I said. I was never EVER going to steal money from anyone. Especially not a teacher. But Leah was persistent and kept on asking. I don't why she wanted me to so badly but in the end, I gave up. I did it. I stole

from Mrs Brisket, possibly the meanest teacher in the school. So I didn't feel that bad about it at first, but then it started to trouble me. I couldn't stop thinking about it at night and I felt really guilty. Oh, you should probably know that Leah also encouraged this girl called Nikki to steal a lot of money from Miss Everleigh. By a lot, I mean A LOT! Like, $100. But then our principal, Mrs Anderson called all the Year 4, 5 and 6 girls to the hall and told everyone that $149 had been stolen from Miss Everleigh at the school disco and that if anyone knew anything they should go straight away and tell them. How they knew it was at the disco I don't know but Nikki looked really upset and started to cry so she went to Mrs

Anderson's office after that. I don't exactly know what happened but apparently, it was confidential. Anyways I went to Mrs Anderson's office in the morning with a girl called Bailey-who is now one of my best friends- and I went and told Mrs Anderson everything. And yes I did cry but to be honest most people would have. Mrs Anderson was very nice and she didn't shout like I thought she would but she was a bit annoyed that I hadn't come sooner. Later in the day Mrs Anderson called me, Leah and Nikki down to her office and talked to us about it. Our punishment was to go and clean the whole entire hall at lunchtime with the caretaker, Mr Hunter. I mean it wasn't that bad because I did it with

Bailey and my other new best friends, Cassie, Abigail. Oh, also Kayla but she had nothing to do with it so she wasn't there. Probably the worst part was telling my mum. I decided to tell Mum and she could tell Dad because he was friends with the principal soooo that's a little awkward. I wasn't really sure how to tell Mum but it turns out she already knew. I think Aunty Kelsea might have told her-FYI Aunty Kelsea is a teacher at school and also my godmother-so at night I told Mum EVERYTHING and to my surprise, Mum said she wasn't mad at me! I didn't even get a punishment! I was pretty relieved. After that, since I had told on Leah, we weren't really friends anymore. I really liked Leah but she was kind of ignoring

me after that and then the next day she was crying in the bathrooms because apparently, I was being mean. Really I didn't get it but the next week at swimming in the pool Leah asked me what was happening. I told her I felt pressured being friends with her and that I didn't want my friendship to be like that and also I already knew that Leah's other best friend Lilia hated me so I didn't really want to be in that position. I thought Leah would know that that conversation we had was private and not to be shared but WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT! She went and told Lilia everything! I knew this because they were lagging behind everyone and whispering to each other. Then Leah came up to me and asked what the word that I told