Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we've both always ___1___ the few times a year when we can see each other.

Over the ___2___, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was ___3___ around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with ___4___ and was into other ___5___ behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been ___6___ to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her ___7___ him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she ___8___ better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.

I tried to ___9___ her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting ___10___. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was ___11___ to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.