If you were put in the situation that I was in, what will you do?

It was never a question of who's the smartest instead it was a question of who has courage to be smart. I really felt insulted in the way that she spoke those words it felt as if it was a thorn wounding  my finger, so it all started here. It was morning, the bell rang and we left the room to move towards the Biology Laboratory while we were walking this girl just suddenly approached me and asked me if I was really the leader of the group and by this sudden question I was deeply insulted. You may say that I'm emotional but seriously if you were in my case what would you do? Would you react the same thing as i did? The reason why I felt insulted was that was she doubting my capability into being  a leader and if she doubts me being the leader then she is also doubting the choice of the whole class because at the first I didn't beg for the position and second  I was chosen by the class. Now I have realized that we just can't avoid people who tend to be jealous, jealous in a sense that they just won't be happy of what we've achieved and that they always want to be the center of attention. Honestly, if you want to be in the center of the scene then you can have it! I'll be happy to give the place to you because all I want is to be happy and by that I don't mean being popular. All I ever wanted was to be a simple person,a person to whom everybody comes when they're in need of counselling.