From the looks of it, Nick didn’t do anything to deserve their spiteful treatment of him. According to Brooks, they apparently started distancing themselves from him and making fun of him behind his back because they thought he had an annoying laughter and that he laughed too much.
They generalized their hatred for bullies by hating on everyone, including people who’d never wronged them.
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"My skin is very young, but my heart is very old" - Isaac Dunbar.