Basically I have this friend . I've known her for 16 years and always considered her one of my best friends.
In high school, she was bullied and I stuck up for her and I don't know why but she always compared herself to me and our other friend because we got more attention (I was loud and she was really good looking) and through the years she got a boyfriend and made another group of friends (who were also bullied) but through it I always made time for her and vice versa. Because she was part of our group (at the time we were very stupid and smoked weed and smoked etc) all her new friends found her cool and exciting and although she never did any of that stupid stuff we did (except making feeble attempts to smoke) they thought she was really cool.
As years went by me and those who were close to her before have noticed her becoming distant. (I know this sounds awful) but she has become quite an attention seeker. Always starting fights on facebook, and claiming she's depressed, bulimic and on pills, but as somebody who had depression very badly I find it totally insulting to those who are depressed as she puts it all online for people to see. If there is anything popular going around she's goes against it, in my opinion, to show she's not conformist . Even still I wanted to still be friends with her because she was a good friend from school.
Recently, since she has a new boyfriend and a new lot of friends she makes NO effort to see me. I even offered to drive 50 miles to her uni with my little boy and she's just not bothered. Her group of friends don't like me, they are trolls and everytime I write something to her, they make comments. In fact she just put a status up saying 'I'm so bored' so I said I'd send her my number and we can catch up and one of them just put 'needy needy needy'. She didn't even stick up for me and just put another stupid comment so I haven't replied. I'm really hurt. These friends of hers always try and start rows with me and I feel I've grown up too much to get sucked in, but I still find it really upsetting and offensive. I feel I'm being bullied for wanting to see my friend.
She obviously doesn't care and I should probably just leave it. I know I might sound a bitch for everything I have put but I'm just so upset about it all. I've done nothing to her or them. They're just a geeky group of people who seem to see me as their target right now, even though I haven't done anything to any of them. Except for not sharing some of their opinions (the grand ntional, i'm against it and they just kept laughing at all the horses that went down to annoy me so I deleted them off facebook). She was always the geeky girl I looked after and shared my secrets with but now she's somebody who honestly doesn't care about me. I really want to go see her mum but I feel it would be awkward.
Massive rant. Very sorry to those who read it. What would you do?