Friends and "Friends"

One of the all time most advertised things in my opinion about high school is friends and "friends". The friends being the people who stick by you and comfort you in times and the people whom you can trust with your thoughts and feelings. And the "friends" being the people who either you don't know very well who claim to be your friend when their friends aren't around or the people who act as your friend but then go and do something that a true friend should never do. Both of those things classify a person as a "friend" and with my experience, your "friends" can turn out to be someone that you aways thought of as a true friend.

One of my "friend"s is a girl I've known since I was 4 and just so happens to be the same girl with whom I made a pact 11 years ago that we would be BBFLs and that we would always stick by each other till our deaths. But this all changed when we got to high school. So my so-called "friend" stood by me as I did with her for the first few weeks. We ate lunch together with some of our old elementary friends and some of our new friends as well. But after a while things started to change and she stopped talking to us in the halls as we passed by and then she would only eat with us once in a while and then things just stopped. We never saw her or spoke to her until she had none of her friends with her. But even then she would still find a "better crowd" to join and she would just go on with her life like everything was cool and she was still friends with us. Plus over top of that, she started to act like we all revolved around her. On the last day of school before the winter break for example, she called me and asked me if my mom could drop her off at home. I told her that I was planning to go to the mall with my friends and that my mom couldn't drive because she and my little brother were watching a movie in the theater. She then called five minutes later and told me that she was waiting outside for us and she sounded sort of impatient. So I told her again that my mom couldn't drive and that we were going to the mall but she could come with us if she wanted to. She refused and said she would find her own way home but she didn't sound very understanding but I mean she hadn't talked to me in weeks and now she expected me to pull my mom out of a movie just so she could drive her home? That just goes to show that even if you've known someone for your whole life, it doesn't mean that they're your friend. And if someone can't even bother to say hello to you even once in a while, then they're definitely not your friend.