I'm in so much trouble?!?! *PLEASE read*?

[judasfm]

Are the messages that your friends sent still on Twitter? Do you have any evidence at all (emails, tweets, anything with times and dates) that your friends were also involved? If so, gather it together and first of all show your parents. Keep several copies for yourself and take them to the meeting so that when the time comes, you can hand them to everyone there (if you give them one to pass around, they'll lose interest very quickly).

You already know you did a very stupid and spiteful thing, so I won't lecture you about that here. But the other girls ought to be punished just as much as you. Making mistakes is part of life, but running from those mistakes and leaving other people to take the blame is about as cowardly and despicable as it gets.

At the meeting itself, keep very calm and be as polite as you can. If you go in ranting and raving or getting angry with your former friends, no one's going to listen to you. If you speak calmly and hold your hand up to what you did, people will be far more likely to believe you. At the very least, they'll respect you for having the moral courage to confess.

Don't try and make excuses, such as, "Well, yeah, I did it, but it was all so-and-so's idea really!" No one at that meeting cares who started it and you'll just come across as a whiny kid trying to shirk responsibility. Instead, try something like, "It was a group of us who were saying these things, and I've brought copies of their tweets/emails/whatever here for you all to see. I know what I did was wrong, I'm sorry I hurt Clair so badly and I'm really not trying to shift the blame, but with all due respect, I don't understand why I'm the only one out of that group who's being punished."

Good luck. I really hope it works out for you :-)