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The Most Aggravating Mission Trip EVER
A Tale of Spite and Vengeance from the Westminster Pres Youth Group
Church bullies are the worst kind of bullies, because church is supposed to be a refuge. In Sunday school and youth group you should at least try to get along. But I’m not a big fan of pretending like that, so I’ve forgiven this girl for also not pretending.
The rest of her family was perfectly lovely, but this kid… Well, Liv’s face always reminded me of an onion that’s been turned around to hide the huge rotting, moldy crater on the other side, so you won’t notice until you pick it up. Probably because this was also her personality.
Liv was the alpha brat, so the other brats swarmed around her. I know I keep comparing my childhood church to Mean Girls, but children imitate what they see and do what they are encouraged and allowed to. This church was being pastored by Regina George, herself, and this clique of girls in my youth group was LITERALLY the Plastics. They simply chose their queen bee based on pure attitude rather than looks, is all.
Needless to say, they were not fans of me. Fine. I wasn’t a fan of theirs, either.
They tried tormenting me a lot over those three or so years; but I usually got right back in their faces instead of emotionally bruised, so it was mostly for entertainment from afar.
