When you travel, you pack your bags with excitement, just bubbling with joy. There are no sacrifices made for your average trip. It’s an opportunity for you to escape the stresses of your everyday world. But for longtime teacher Butch “B-Rob” Robbins, that will not be the case this August.

You’ve seen it before… A friendship starts well, ends badly. Fights happen, manipulation takes place, rumors are spread, and in the end, a lot of feelings are hurt. Although this is a very basic retelling of the plot of “Mean Girls,” it’s also a story that’s true to the experiences of many real-life teenagers and the friendships turned nightmares they’ve found themselves in. Happy relationships often turn into toxic ones. However, when you’re in a situation like this, the shift from healthy to unhealthy can be hard to notice until you’re already in too deep. Fortunately, movies such as “Mean Girls” featuring toxic relationships can sometimes help provide an example of what to look for when you’re stuck in an unhealthy friendship. While the premise of movies like this, with their dramatic high school settings and pink-coded Wednesdays, can seem far-fetched, the toxic friendships shown between bouts of teen angst and trust falls can actually be quite realistic. Friends talking behind each other’s backs, the status of superiority over another person, and endless teenage betrayals in the movies are seen today in the endless scrolls of Instagram and nonstop camera clicks of Snapchat. In high school especially, the overall stress from toxic relationships can hurt anyone, and the Burn Book of “Mean Girls is often only the tip of the iceberg.

The lights of a small tavern flicker against the darkened night sky, bustling with folks of all shapes and sizes. As a tall elf woman refills the drinks at a particularly rowdy table, a stout dwarven man begins an argument with a buff orc that quickly escalates as another tavern worker confiscates the dwarf’s hammer and the orc’s drink. The orc heaves a sigh and quickly pays the elven women a few silver coins before making his way to the outside of the tavern.

Santa Claus is coming to town soon. All around the world, millions of children are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the big man himself: Santa Claus. The anticipation of reindeer hooves on the roof keeps little ones awake in their beds, while Mom and Dad tiptoe downstairs with arms full of presents.