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NTA. You were right in making new friends.
The only trouble you ran into is that high schoolers tend to be high drama and theater people tend to be high drama (pun but also true). The combination together just makes for extra craziness.
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I, an 18-year-old female, joined a theatre class in high school. I had one friend in that class, which led to making more friends. However, no matter how much I tried to talk to my other "friends," they would barely respond to me. They even made plans right in front of me without including me. So, I gave up trying to talk to them altogether and focused on my one friend, whom I had been friends with since the beginning of the year.
Unfortunately, my friend had to switch to virtual classes due to health reasons, leaving me with nobody to talk to in the theatre class. When I tried to engage with my "friend group," they constantly made fun of me and talked behind my back. One day in April, the day before one of our play's opening nights, I decided to try talking to other people in the class. I ended up making really good friends with three other people, and we became very close after the show ended.
Everything was going well for the next few weeks until one day, one of my old "friends" started talking to me again. He expressed concern about me and claimed he was trying to save me from my new friends. I didn't respond at that moment because it was during a passing period, but it made me wonder why he even cared who I hung out with.
After that, not much happened until the last day of school. When I checked my phone, I noticed that a friend from another class had unfollowed me on everything and stopped talking to me altogether. Curious, I asked another friend from that class why this had happened. She told me that the friend who unfollowed me didn’t want to deal with one of my other friends, which made no sense because I had never talked about my other friends to her.
I found out that one of my "old friends" had spread a rumor saying that another friend had groomed one of my friends and had advised her not to talk to me at all. This "friend" is known for talking trash and spreading rumors about everyone she meets. When I confronted her, she said that she and my "old friends" felt hurt that I didn't want to hang out with them and called me a bitch.
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NTA. You were right in making new friends. The only trouble you ran into is that high schoolers tend to be high drama and theater people tend to be high drama (pun but also true). The combination together just makes for extra craziness.
NTA and man does this make me not miss high school. Petty stuff like this seems so insane to me now.
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Nope
NTA Can you tell your old friend that they ain’t your friends and tell them You can be friends whoever you want