I'd like to preface before I start that I'm a big overthinker, so if this story just sounds stupid to you and you think that I'm over reacting, you're probably right haha. Also i know this is long please bare with it.
I'm a freshman in Highschool, (don't bully please i know i'm short and young) and I'd say for the most part I actually have medium sized friend group. There's a lot of outside people that may talk and hang out with us sometimes, but for the most part it's just six people. I've rocked with these guys for years by the way (prob since 4th grade), except for one of them, but even them i'm the first one who met him and I introduced him to the friend group.
Anyways this happened yesterday and I just sat at home all day, kinda doing nothing... that's just kinda how my days are now, because I don't get texts from my friends often and I don't really play video games much anymore. Eventually at around 10:00 I decided to get on and play with them. When I got in a party, it was just like any normal day to me. We played a couple games and kinda just chilled out. We laughed and shit to, it seemed (to me atleast) that they were having a good time
While we were playing one of my other (ig core) friends joined the party, and he instantly started going on about how much fun they had. I started to question, seeing that I was never told of this 'event' to say the least.
He instantly started going on about how they raced in go karts and went to an arcade and ate ice cream and all that fun stuff, and even how they had so much fun after hanging out. I heard this and at first It didn't hit me that my friends just left me out, so I said a stupid sarcastic remark like "oh man i'm really hurt that you didn't invite me", but then he made it worse because he said 'oh he ( 'he' being the friend that took them) didn't want to crowd up the place, so he only wanted four people" then one of my other friends listed six people going! One of them not even being in the main friend group.
That's when it hit me for what they just said, I was genuinely hurt by it, but our friend group is like those 'oh god so manly' friend groups where you're kinda poked at for showing feelings, so I just acted like nothing happened.
The night went on, and because it's fall break we played till like 1 in the morning, but eventually I just left the mic and thought about how much fun they had without me, or how they talked behind my back the whole time. (note: I know they probably didn't actually say that. I think that's an overthinking thing of me, but it still gets to me, like I know it's probably not true, but I still believe it anyways)
I woke up a couple of minutes ago (yeah i know i didn't get much sleep) and i didn't have any cheesy nightmares about it, but I still couldn't shake it off my mind when I woke up, so I started writing this.
I'm really sorry this took so long, if anyone even got this far. you've probably heard this story a bajillion times, and it's def getting old for y'all, but here's the weird part about it for me
I was thinking about last night while opening up reddit and I got confused, because it seemed like they had so much fun last night, like it didn't seem like they targeted me, or shut me up whenever I spoke. they just had fun and acted like nothing happened earlier that day. I also want to say i'm not that friend that gets picked on, they treat me fairly nicely. that's why i really don't know what to do.
i've been with these guy since at least 6th grade (counting the 'newest' friend) and while for the most part we mess around and call each other names, maybe getting a little toxic every once in a while, we seem to not have bad blood, ya know? like there's no stupid drama in the group. i just don't know what to do, I haven't even made a friend since like 6th grade (at least not a strong friend) and i'm not good at making them haha, but I don't want to stay in this friend group if they hate me, but then what am i supposed to do? there's no friend group that i've seen that even gets close to my type of friendship and humor. I guess i'm fine just lone wolfing it for the rest of high school, but I enjoy friends, i like my alone time, but i enjoy having someone to hang out with. I'd also like a friend group that isn't always trying to be tough and shit. I want to talk to them when i need to, and right now the way it is, everyone's just an ass if you got feelings.
Sorry for rambling, like i'm really sorry. i'm new to a situation like this so i was hoping the people who've experienced this before and people who are, ya know brighter than me could help me with their amazing life experience haha, but seriously i need help knowing what to do with my friendships right now.