Library stamps: the same boy has read every book she loves. Teasing about her 'Concrete Roads' lyrics. She feels behind, watched, and not as clever as she hoped. School-day smallness, not a scare.
Theme. First crush often arrives as comparison: someone got there first. Shame and interest can sit in the same chest.
What to say. You might say: 'She feels a bit small next to a boy she has not even met properly. That is an awkward feeling, not a danger. We can pause if the teasing lands too close.'
