Teenage girls were best friends(2)

Wang was the class monitor and Ye was study representative in the first year of senior high school.

Yang Kaiwen, Wang's classmate, said Wang was very popular. "As monitor of our class, even the naughtiest boy would listen to her, which shows her charisma," she said.

Apart from being versatile, Ye also impressed her classmates with her good temper.

Mao remembered that one time she kept Ye waiting for more than three hours.

"She was waiting for me to eat together in the school canteen, but I was stuck with some other things. It was long past dinner time and even staff in the canteen had left, but she was still waiting for me," Mao said.

She said Ye did not complain a word.

"Some classmates would play tricks on her, but she was never angry," Mao said, adding that Ye always had a smile on her face.

A boy wrote on his blog to commemorate Ye and expressed his affection to her.

"From this year on, I will leave the day after my birthday to a special person. I will dress in black and bring wine and flowers to her cemetery. I will say happy birthday to her and tell her I like her," he wrote.

On Monday, after hearing the news, Jiang Jianming, Wang's Chinese teacher at Jiangshan Middle School, went to her classroom and collected things Wang left behind.

Jiang would have been the head teacher of Wang's class in the next semester if it were not for the accident.

"On the day before their departure to the US, Wang came to me in the office, saying that she was glad I could be her head teacher for the next semester," Jiang said, adding that he felt so lucky to have such an excellent student in his class.

As her Chinese teacher, Jiang discovered Wang's writing talent in her articles.

"She was gifted in writing and had beautiful hand writing. I shared every one of her articles to the rest of the class because they were beautifully written," he said.