MoonMan
June 29th, 2013, 10:14 PM
Stick with me here because this is a long story...
One of my long term friends has moved back to my city after 2 years of being away (moved elsewhere) and is currently attending my highschool. I hung out with him a lot during lunch, afterschool, and he had some of the same classes as me as well. He is a very introverted person and has a hard time making new friends despite him being a good guy once you get to know him. Even I would admit I found him very strange and stubborn when I first met him. He was bullied pretty much daily at my highschool and was disliked even to the point where people harassed me for even being around him. Namely insults and obnoxious teasing, with some group of kids physically threatening us once or twice when I told them to fuck off.
He came out as bisexual a couple years back and, of course, there were rumors at my school that I was gay as well and we were secretly sucking each other's dicks and what not despite him already having a boyfriend outside of our school and me being straight. I have actually had a couple of girls recently reject me because they thought I was gay and in a sexual relationship with him, so the rumors are spreading like wildfire to say the least. Usually I pay no mind to these kinds of things, in fact, they rarely bother me because I was never really popular in the first place so I could care less about my reputation (which was already shit before my friend showed up anyways).
The problem here is school just ended and my friend recently told me he thinks it would be better if we didn't hang out so much at school next year so I wouldn't get harassed for being around him. I tried explaining to him I'm not bothered by it, but he says he feels really guilty for it, and that his mind is made up that it would be for the best. Now, he doesn't reply to me online and we don't hang out anymore because I can never contact him, I'm assuming this is his way of distancing himself from me to make things easier next year.
We live far from each other and I have no way of transport to visit him because neither of our families currently have a car (money issues), and his mom (she's single and very, very strange) usually doesn't allow visitors anyways. While I do have other friends, he was a close friend of mine and I've known him for years so I would really prefer to still be his friend despite the bullying, but it seems like he's not allowing it.
I honestly have no clue what to do.
One of my long term friends has moved back to my city after 2 years of being away (moved elsewhere) and is currently attending my highschool. I hung out with him a lot during lunch, afterschool, and he had some of the same classes as me as well. He is a very introverted person and has a hard time making new friends despite him being a good guy once you get to know him. Even I would admit I found him very strange and stubborn when I first met him. He was bullied pretty much daily at my highschool and was disliked even to the point where people harassed me for even being around him. Namely insults and obnoxious teasing, with some group of kids physically threatening us once or twice when I told them to fuck off.
He came out as bisexual a couple years back and, of course, there were rumors at my school that I was gay as well and we were secretly sucking each other's dicks and what not despite him already having a boyfriend outside of our school and me being straight. I have actually had a couple of girls recently reject me because they thought I was gay and in a sexual relationship with him, so the rumors are spreading like wildfire to say the least. Usually I pay no mind to these kinds of things, in fact, they rarely bother me because I was never really popular in the first place so I could care less about my reputation (which was already shit before my friend showed up anyways).
The problem here is school just ended and my friend recently told me he thinks it would be better if we didn't hang out so much at school next year so I wouldn't get harassed for being around him. I tried explaining to him I'm not bothered by it, but he says he feels really guilty for it, and that his mind is made up that it would be for the best. Now, he doesn't reply to me online and we don't hang out anymore because I can never contact him, I'm assuming this is his way of distancing himself from me to make things easier next year.
We live far from each other and I have no way of transport to visit him because neither of our families currently have a car (money issues), and his mom (she's single and very, very strange) usually doesn't allow visitors anyways. While I do have other friends, he was a close friend of mine and I've known him for years so I would really prefer to still be his friend despite the bullying, but it seems like he's not allowing it.
I honestly have no clue what to do.