Friendship problems help

[coolcat16]

I' m 15 and iv'e had a friend that i have been close to since fifth grade(im going to tenth now). We had been best friends up until last summer. Last summer i decided to go to a boarding school and had to leave a bunch of my friends. I left and tried to stay in contact with as many of my close friends as possible unfortunately i did not stay very close to my best friend. now that im back home for the summer i've seen him twice and i've heard bad things about him. He drinks alot now hangs around with the wrong crowd, hooks up with any girl. sex, smokes weed, and is a totally different person.Hes even encouraged me to come drink with him, and i don't know what to do, i don't want him to think im a loser now. I don't talk to him that much but i wish our friendship could be back to the way it was. I feel like its my fault that i did not help him this year, and i did not make sure he had the right mindset and i never talked about the way he was acting. I want to talk to him but i don't want him to completely shut me out and get offensive and completely lose our friendship what should i do?

[misery_business]

I don't think you should blame yourseld for it.
What you should do is take him out just the two of you and do something fun with him that you used to do when you were closer and talk about how much you missed him but how mcuh he's changed, I don't know what he's reaction might be you'll just have to wait and see what hapens :)
good luck !

[Contra]

It's not your fault at all. You decided to go to boarding school, he changed because he wanted to.
I think you should talk to him about how you missed him and the times you spent together, I think that if he really values your friendship, he'll agree and try to understand your position.

Good luck :)