elle and heidi continued to be my best group of friends throughout eighth grade. but when 9th grade started both of them got like, their hair completely cut off π like it was cut rlly close to their heads and i was caught SO OFF GUARD like it took me ADJUSTING and i was like omg but its not that big a deal so i acted like normal but ig i was kinda awkward with elle because around halloween she started being rude to me and ignoring me. so she was in my english class and i just sat in front of her and heidi with this girl im gonna call charlie. me and charlie got kidna close and i was also always close with another friend group im gonna call Artsy Group as thats what charlie called it a couple months ago. so we hung out with the Artsy Group and ate lunch with them and stuff and she LOVED taking 0.5s of me. and suddenly heidi starts getting rude too so im like IDC I DONT NEED U GUYS jk i ddint say that we just drifted apart lol.
so then the dc trip happened, and for some reason i was in a room with charlie and two girls i wasnt very close with. they had drifted in and out of the Artsy Group but never took part in our "nerdy" activities. im going to call them paige and karen. so for some reason they were really excited that i was rooming with them they IMMEDIATELY snapped me after roommate lists came out and they were like AAHJDSGFJHG IM SO EXCITED and im like i literally dont know who u are lol. but bc of this we got closer before the dc trip
during the dc trip we were literally ON something. there was another girl that charlie, paige, and karen were all friends with and the name im giving her is maria. maria was a "popular" girl and she was having issues with her group so we took her into our group walking around when she did. after that we were basically all a friend group. I never got close with maria but me, charlie, paige, and karen were basically close friends. we invited each other to sleepovers and birthday parties (i never got to invite them to anything but thats coming later) which maria also attended.