We all like to think that the people we choose to spend our time with are our friends, and that they always have our best interests at heart. We love watching teen movies for the drama of the Toxic friendships, thinking that our own will never be like that. Well, Mean Girls is actually more realistic than you might think. I’ve come across my fair share of Regina Georges, and ended numerous friendships because of toxic behaviour. I also work in a large secondary school, seeing hundreds of young people fall into dangerous patterns, which will certainly carry on into adulthood.