The schoolgirl chronicles, part I.

Gina and Whitney are best friends. They both hate Ilyse. Ilyse sits between Gina and Whitney in math class because the teacher assigned their seats like that. Gina and Whitney want Ilyse to switch seats with them, but she refuses, so Gina and Whitney throw spitballs at Ilyse all day, and she keeps throwing them right back. One day, Gina takes something belonging to Whitney, and they stop talking. Lonely the next day in math (and also looking for a little revenge), Whitney becomes friends with Ilyse. They both decide to ignore Gina. Gina gets frustrated, and, in an effort to both ruin the newly-formed friendship between Whitney and Ilyse and to gain attention and get what she really still wants (her seat switched), she starts throwing even more spitballs at Ilyse. Ilyse is angry, and she gets the teacher involved. The teacher petitions to Whitney to get Gina to stop throwing spitballs, but Whitney has no power to tell Gina what to do, and Gina doesn't listen because she knows that she is still in the right to get her seat changed. What no one sees is that Gina has valid reasons for being angry, because they're too busy focusing on her wrongdoing and not inviting her to express her anger in an environment where her frustrations can be turned into something productive.