In My Last Best Friend, Jenna Drews is the class bully. But in earlier versions of the story Joey Carpenter was the bully! Joey carried around a slingshot named “Stretch” and used it to shoot spitballs at people who, according to him, didn’t “measure up.” Although it worked to have Joey as the bully, we thought having Jenna be the bully would create more tension for Ida.

Here’s a deleted scene in which Ida tries to retrieve a secret note she left for Stacey, but Joey gets in the way.

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