The group wants you to do something — go along with excluding someone, join a prank that's a bit cruel, lie to back up their story. And you don't want to. Every part of you is saying no. But saying no out loud, to their faces, feels almost impossible. They're all looking at you. There's that smile that says "don't be boring." There's the quiet threat that if you don't go along, you might be next — the one left out, mocked, on the wrong side of the group. You know what you believe. The hard part isn't knowing it. The hard part is the few seconds where you have to say it, alone, against everyone — and risk what saying it might cost.