Walking through the hallways at school, Jon received a lot of stares, from both boys and girls. And when his new friends defended Jon, they got strange stares at them as well.
"Don't worry about all those people staring, Jon," Sarah said. "They just don't know you like we do."
"Yeah," Erica agreed.
Jon's new friends were so sweet to him. He never wanted to stop being friends with them. But he wondered how his relationship with Karyn was, since he was now friends with the most popular girls at school.