Ummm… I’m really bad at short versions, so here’s the whole thing,
I think either my friends are changing or I’m changing or something. I feel really…far away. I have been absolute best friends with this girl, Chloe, and her older sister Andrea, since I moved here in Kindergarten and I was having a sleepover with Chloe and we were talking about our circle of friends and how good of friends everyone was in it, like the five of us are really good friends, and then you and me are best friends and she’s best friends with her… you know that kind of stuff. Then idk what exactly she said but she started talking about how good of friends she had been with these two other girls in preschool or something before I moved here. Then she started talking about how we got to be best friends spending every day after school together because our mom’s were best friends.
She made it sound so… like it had nothing to do with us that we were friends, just time. So I asked why do you think we’re best friends now, I mean instead of you and Breanne?(preschool friend) and she just said because we spent so much time together.
But I kind of felt like there were lots of things that made us great best friends. I just remember every once in a while imagining what my life would be like if I didn’t have a best friend to talk to everything about. And I couldn’t. And I couldn’t believe that she thought the only thing that made us close was time. So I said “That’s all? Just time? like you would be Breanne’s best friend if you had spent more time with her?” and she just said “Yeah”
But the thing about Breanne is that Chloe acts so different about her. Sometimes, I like Breanne. She’s easy to talk to when she’s…calm I guess… But most of the time she is really loud and annoying. She’s one of those people who walks into a room and suddenly it’s all about them. She talks really loudly and when she laughs…everyone in the building knows she’s done something “funny”. She doesn’t do anything normally when she’s in that mood. Everything is a big deal and if she doesn’t know someone she’s really rude to them. I guess some people think it’s funny, but I really don’t. So I’ll just be there, not laughing I guess and then people will be like Rory, you are such a fun-kill or whatever and I always just shrug, but most of the time I try to kind of blend into the crowd or something before they can start saying stuff like that.Breanne always just yells really loud “RORY’S NOT HAVING FUN BECAUSE SHE IS EMBARRASSED BY US!!!!!! I just want to tell them that I love having fun, but being rude to total strangers and doing stupid things isn’t my idea of fun. Once I told Chloe that, when it was just us, but she was kind of indifferent about it.
But the worst times are when Breanne makes it all about her by acting depressed. Once we all went to a bonfire and we couldn’t find her, so we told the parents inside and everyone around and we all got out flashlights and were calling her name for over an hour, driving around town, calling anyone that might know, and then finally she just climbed out of a tree right next to the fire in the yard. She could hear us the whole time, but she just wanted us to look for her.
Anyway, Chloe gets a lot like Breanne when she’s around her. For a while they were hardly even friends, but they’ve “been spending a lot of time together lately” or something I guess. Chloe told me this morning that she and her sister Andrea were talking about how I’d been being really boring lately and she thought I loved dancing in the rain. She was talking about the day before, when I had stayed inside when they went out. I told her I do love doing that just not running yelling and screaming out of a restaurant doing it and then shaking my hair out on the people in the table next to us. We were all going to go to Chloe’s house after that too, but I just didn’t go, I just went home without telling anyone. Andrea said it was really unlike me and was something up and I said no, and Chloe didn’t say anything. Probably didn’t even notice I wasn’t there.
They just take their “freedoms” really far I guess. And I’m always just the boring one for not doing it. But dang it, I just don’t want to!
Then we went to see a movie tonight and Chloe kept on saying hey you guys my parents are letting me take ONE person to the party tonight after the movie! When there were almost ten of us there! And she’s always been really tactful about stuff like that, but it’s like she just loses it around Breanne. Then after the movie she just screamed BREANNE WANNA GO TO THE PARTY WITH ME????!!!! and then they started jumping around the lobby bumping into random people and squealing and whatnot…
Anyway, Chloe gets a lot like Breanne when she’s around her. For a while they were hardly even friends, but they’ve “been spending a lot of time together lately” or something I guess. Chloe told me this morning that she and her sister Andrea were talking about how I’d been being really boring lately and she thought I loved dancing in the rain. She was talking about the day before, when I had stayed inside when they went out. I told her I do love doing that just not running yelling and screaming out of a restaurant doing it and then shaking my hair out on the people in the table next to us. We were all going to go to Chloe’s house after that too, but I just didn’t go, I just went home without telling anyone. Andrea said it was really unlike me and was something up and I said no, and Chloe didn’t say anything. Probably didn’t even notice I wasn’t there.
They just take their “freedoms” really far I guess. And I’m always just the boring one for not doing it. But dang it, I just don’t want to!
Then we went to see a movie tonight and Chloe kept on saying hey you guys my parents are letting me take ONE person to the party tonight after the movie! When there were almost ten of us there! And she’s always been really tactful about stuff like that, but it’s like she just loses it around Breanne. Then after the movie she just screamed BREANNE WANNA GO TO THE PARTY WITH ME????!!!! and then they started jumping around the lobby bumping into random people and squealing and whatnot.
But I don’t want to talk to her about it, anymore than I have. I feel like if I do, it will just be like I’m whining. She’s told me before that Breanne was just being mean to me sometimes because she was jealous that Chloe thinks of me as her best friend. But I don’t want to be all like No, I WANT HER, No, IIII want HER!!! about Chloe agh it’s just… ghaaah. It’s frustrating. It makes me not want to spend any time with my friends. Usually I’m the one who plans things and gets everyone together, but lately I haven’t had the heart to. I feel like it’s my own fault I’m isolating myself in this vicious cycle or something.
So, I don’t really know what’s going on. If someone looking at this from the outside has any insight, it would be greatly appreciated.
oops sorry, I added the details twice lol it didn’t all fit the first time so I had to cut and paste…
Crystal - The thing is that I live in this really small town and there are only two friend groups- these girls that think they’re really hot and are always having cat fights and drama and switching between the different guys at my school and my group of friends! Andrea is the mature one that I know, I guess.