School Life

I'm in a friend group with 5 people. 2 of them were dating each other (gxg) and person 1 (P1) mentioned to person 2 (P2) that she's been thinking about breaking up for months already. It happened yesterday. P1 was close with our classmate, C (me and P1 are classmates, all of us are in the same school). When there was an event in our gymnasium, P1 and C were sitting together and P1 kept leaning close to C. At the time, P1 and P2 were still together. P2 was seated behind them on the upper bleacher and saw the interactions. She cried. I didn't know what was going on at the time. When we were in our school's garden, I was with P2's friends / classmates. P1 suddenly came up to me and told me she was going to fix her stuff in our classroom, and P2 was behind me, P1 noticed her yet didn't make a move to say hello. Instead, P1 quickly ran off to catch up with C since they were going to go fix their stuff in the room. I tried to turn P2's head away, but she saw and cried. I feel like that was so insensitive of P1. P2 and her friends told me to call P1 so the two can talk, and when me and P1 were walking back to the garden, she asked me, "Is this about C?" and there I found out that she knew about P2's jealousy on him yet made no move to stay away from C. P2 walked away from her because P1 had something to do but never came back. I followed P2 and we walked around the school until I had to get picked up from school.

When I got home, I got a text from P2 saying P1 was the one who broke up with her and said that she hopes she never crosses paths with P2 ever again, and that she doesn't know who she'll end up with in the future but she's sure it's never going to be P2. I find that harsh. Anyways, P2 also told me that her friend saw P1 and C play fighting and P1 was being touchy with C. I'll be real with you, I never told my friends but I've had a crush on C ever since that start of the new school year, and it hurt knowing that I don't really stand a chance against my friend who I've felt slightly jealous of because she's better than me in everything I know I'm good at. Visual / graphic designing? I got recognized for it, but people know hers better. Social skills? I'm not the best at socializing but I've made many new friends while she's made four times the amount I have. She's a transferee since our first year, and I've been in this school since I was a pre-schooler. I felt behind because she knows a lot of people and I was just there in the background.

On Monday, we have a subject where there's a pair activity. I'm paired with P1. Should I talk to her, or wait for her to tell me? What should I do about my one-sided crush? I don't really want to confess since I'm scared and I've never confessed to my previous crushes.

I'm scared that P1 will start trashtalking or backtalking me since she's in a GC with people who got in trouble for doing something last semester, and they talk a lot about our classmates there. With P1's influence and connections with people, she can easily spread rumours about me and my friends. I'm scared of that. She wasn't like this two years ago. She was shy, introverted, not that close with boys. We always stuck together when we were younger, but she's changed so much now.

What do I do now?

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anonymous Friends March 05, 2026 at 10:30 pm 1 0