5. She's Just Not Worth Your Pretty If She's A Drama Queen

Now, I know I touched upon this in the previous 'chapter', but the Drama Queen is a category all in herself.
The Drama Queen. She is the girl who wraps herself in an emotional Linus blanket and comes out for no one lest someone not like the real person underneath the Drama. She is enticing, exciting, intriguing, and addictive. She's got twenty five 'best friends' at any given time and she swears up, down, and six ways sideways that each one is her absolute closest and best. You can't take your eyes off of her and you can't help but drink up every venomously honey dipped word that that comes out of her lined and lipglossed lips. Well, I'm sorry to say but she is the girl who is definitely not worth your pretty. She makes it seem like she is and she'll do anything to make you believe so but she's not in it for you or the friendship, she's there because it boosts her ego and makes her feel like she has an instant on-call audience.


The "Stuff Just Always Happens To Her" Excuse"

Something is always happening and she makes sure you know it. Whether it's crappy stuff, happy stuff, stuff about work or her love life she is right there in your ear giving you every single mushy detail as if she's testing the script for the movie of her life. It's all fine until you start to wonder: why aren't I with her, sharing all these experiences; why do I feel bad about myself after I hang up the phone with her; why aren't I out, living the kind of life she's leading. The minute you begin to compare yourself to her is the minute you should realize she's just not worth your pretty.


The "She Doesn't Mean To be A Bitch" Excuse

Yes, she does. She knows she's being a bitch and she knows that, because you love her, you'll take her asinine behavior with the least resistance. She always needs to get her way and she will pout, kick, scream, and curse until you relent and give her her satisfaction. This girl, ladies, is toxic. Because of her own issues and insecurities she feeds off of the misery and low-self esteem of those who will accept it from her. This girl isn't worth the time of day, and she certainly isn't worth even an OUNCE of your pretty.


The "People Are Just Naturally Drawn To Her" Excuse

Being a genuinely enigmatic, interesting, and friendly person will not always win you the love and respect you deserve. To have friends and to be a friend consists of hard work and compromise. To be a best friend and to have a best friend is requires even more hard work and sacrifice and compromise; the joy, however, is in the fact that it doesn't feel like hard work because you two mesh in a way that nature (or God or whatever you believe in) intended.
No one over the age of eight is surrounded around every corner by a person they call and consider their 'best friend'. Best friends aren't like hot dog vendors (eugh... Don't get me started on street meat pushers...), everywhere you look. That's probably the absolute excitement of having a best friend: they're rare, one of a kind, unique, and unlike anyone else you know. So if your 'best friend' is gushing about her million and six 'BFFs' (god, how I hate that acronym...), you can bet that she's not taking your friendship as seriously as she should be and you can definitely bet that she's not worth your pretty.


The "She Only Acts Like That When Other People Are Around" Excuse

I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but the Drama Queen is a really good actress. Chances are if she's acting totally 180-degrees different when there are people around, then she acting and not being genuine around you. She's got the Gemini complex (and she doesn't even have to be born in late May-early June!): in plains English, she's two-faced. Hell, knowing Drama Queens as well as I do, there are multiple faces to deal with! So if you find your friend to have more facets than the Hope Diamond, you can tell each one of her faces that she's just not worth your pretty.


It's so simple! Drama = not worth it. If you begin to feel like you're a supporting actor in your own life, chances are you've bonded yourself to a Drama Queen.

This is hard because Drama Queens are good at what they do: ensnaring and capturing their audience, making sure they never get away. And it's hard to admit that your best friend is a Drama Queen because you love her (or at least the person who she's been playing) and she'll do anything for you to make you stay. She's that seemingly too good to be true friend that everyone adores. You may not know it at first but sooner or later you'll start to feel like she's driving the big rig that us your life and you're just her cargo. That's even harder to get away from because she seems to make everything easier for you to deal with. What you should realize, though, is that you should be the one controlling your life and that she should move out of your driver's seat because she's not worth your pretty.