Why didn’t Maddie ask Peggie to stop teasing Wanda? What was she afraid of?
Maddie didn’t ask Peggy to stop teasing Wanda because she was the most popular girl in the school. She was a nice girl but when it came to Wanda she behaved differently, otherwise she helped everyone in the trouble. Though, she wants Peggy to stop teasing Wanda but she didn’t ask her to do so because she was afraid of being the next target of such taunts and teasings.
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