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Personal Narrative: The Presentation Of Danea

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Danea was sitting at the table outside as Bella practiced her science presentation while Olivia was giving her tips on her speech. Bella had moved to the states in first grade but she still had a thick British accent. Her accent coupled with her inability to talk slowly and the way she phrased every sentence as if it were a question made her hard to understand, as if that wasn’t bad enough Bella always seemed to have some annoying point of view or argument. Danea hated Bella more than anyone in her friend group. Bella was barely even in the gang as it was, she had other friends, but just liked to sit with Danea and her friends because they were much better than her other ones. Danea rolled her eyes every time she saw Bella at the lunch table Danea had to suppress her repulsion, but she didn’t care what Bella thought about her, so her quick bitter insults often escaped her head and rolled onto her tongue, and …show more content…

Danea sat across from Bella watching her pretentious lmetal for pick her pretentious vegan slop into her pretentious, stupid mouth. Danea hated Bella, Bella was just so awkward, and so undeserving of her and her friends. Danea so convinced that all her friends hated Bella, she couldn’t take a step back and realize how laughably untrue that was. Sara and Danea started walking up the four sets of stairs to Spanish class as Danea started complaining about Bella, “I just hate her, she is so annoying, don’t you hate her? obviously you do, no one even wants her to be in our group.” Danea was speaking so quickly she didn’t give Sara time to oppose. That day Danea felt like she was at her breaking point with Bella, so she opened her phone and clicked on the blue Groupme icon and started a group chat with all the girls in her friend group, except

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