 On her first day, she had befriended two white female students and hoped their friendship would lessen the stress of starting a new school.As she arrived the following week on Monday, the girls told her they could not be friends with her anymore due to them enduring their own harassment while she was absent, including eggs being thrown at them.A few days later on Wednesday, Counts requested to go home for lunch after a group of boys spit in her food the previous day.