So I know kids that are my so-called “friends” I am now going to 8th grade and I have plenty of issues with them. Most of these issues occurred in 6th and 7th grade. I know I should tell them about the way they treat me, but i am so afraid that they will all drop me and I’ll be the loser with no friends. Here’s the issues. (obviously names will be different) My friends, “Lucy,” and I have this inside joke. We were at the mall and she needed a shirt with a size larger than me. She came up with the name “Massive Lucy” for herself and since then we joked around about it. Until one day we were in our Social learning class and I can’t remember all that well but the slideshow had something that reminded me of “Massive Lucy.” I brought up our inside joke and she all of a sudden started to yell at me saying,” wow, the audacity you have to call me that.” She whispered to my friends at the table. They all started saying “I can’t believe you would say that” and things like that. I told them I thought it was a joke but they didn’t care. They continued calling me names and saying things like “bully” “an extremely disgusting person” “brat” and “mean little b*tch”. I was shocked because I brought up this inside joke that we literally were all laughing at yesterday. I started crying and they all told me,” why are you crying, what’s your deal, Lucy should be crying because of how rude you were to her.” One girl even said she’s such a drama queen she’s probably faking it. Their harsh words really got to me. I couldn’t take it, even if they were trying to prank me. Luckily no one in my class really noticed. Lunch came next and they all ignored me... That is until I sat with my guy friends. They came over and said “it’s a joke, haha how could you not know.” “Wasn’t that a fun prank?” No it wasn’t a fun prank. The problem is that they do this all the time. Different “fun pranks” on me. I even asked Lucy she could at least stop prankish me and she said no pranking you is fun. I don’t like it at all. Even the popular girls in my grade are nicer to me. And the worst part is, when I try to hang out with other kids they say. “Wow, your ditching us now.”