She realizes that Heather wasn’t really a friend to her and that she just used her. Melinda thinks the friendship was all a lie; nothing was real with their friendship. The ending of the friendship to Melinda means that she didn’t really have a true friend, and that friends are hard to come by. Heather is sorry about it but she likes hanging out with the preppy people. Melinda’s parents think her problem is that she doesn’t care anymore. The principal and the guidance councilor thinks she is having problems and don’t have to go to school the meeting didn’t really help Melinda it mostly hurt her and now she bluffs schools a lot more and doesn’t even go to class that much any more. She doesn’t really like school after all that stuff went down with her and Heather, she tries to avoid her and school as much as possible and she just gets on the bus and goes where ever she wants but then at the end of the day she feels like she messed up and wants to go back to school but at the same time she doesn’t want the drama with Heather.