u/Creepy_Worry_635

My two friends are yelling at me and now I have to block them and cut contact completely.

The three of us have grown up together. We've always been very close.

One of my friends is a raging extrovert who would take me to clubs and restaurants and would splurge money. All of that would often put me in trouble with my parents. She would call me in the middle of the night to complain about her imbecile of a boyfriend, break up with him, and show up the next day at my doorstep along with him to put her phone to charge and then disappear with him for the rest of the night. One day, her boyfriend pretended to be her and texted me, saying, "I am cheating". Because he wanted to test my loyalty as a friend. He would "accidentally" ring my grandparents' bell at 2 in the morning. And another time, during a sleepover, she she suddenly got up and decided that she wants to ROAM AROUND. It was, again, in the middle of the night. When she functions the best. She started to grab the door and me and my other friend, knowing full well that we are going to get in trouble, tried to stop her. That's when she told us, that there was a drunk friend that needed her help. So she got on her scooter, with her boyfriend, of course, and came back and hour later. She was smiling. So, that's her.

My other friend, in the event of an argument, never takes my side. A distant acquaintance got to learn a secret about friend 1 from a source, and this friend, friend 2, was the first to jump to the conclusion, that it was me who told her. She just ran around telling people that I spilled a secret about our best friend to that acquaintance. She would be the first one to run around and let the world know whenever I fumble. Another time, during a school play rehearsal, I was assigned a role, which a girl stole. I claimed it back, which angered the girl. Friend 2, along with her, told our class teacher that I was the one who stole HER role. Luckily, everyone in that play took my side, including our director- so much so, that when the class teacher started yelling at me, the director yelled at her, and everyone else joined.

After years of covering up for them and forgiving them and keeping them around, it was my turn to fuck up. We were supposed to meet for badminton, but I got a call from work and I had to ditch them. I told them to go ahead and paid them my share of the money, since friend 1 had booked a badminton court. Work call was terrible. Our team got a loud telling to by our senior. And there it was. The calls and texts from the two of them pouring in. Questioning me. Asking for explanations.

I was in a terrible mood, and decided to not say anything for a while. I didn't return their calls. At night, when I was a little okay, I sent them an apology. To which, now I was getting shredded even more. That's when I decided to call it quits. I exited the chat group, blocked them forever.

I feel terrible. None of the three of us are perfect, but they didn't want to stop with their yelling. I had enough people yelling at me already. But I fucked up.

Now I believe I've fallen out with them for good. Whatever I had with them, however toxic our relationship was, it still feels terrible to lose them.

What do I do?

Okay, not gonna lie, the moment I realised that The Middle was sneakily removed from the "coming soon" section of Netflix India, I just went to the suggestions place and suggested the show 9 times.

And in the next couple of days, I saw it back in the "coming soon" section! Really excited for this Friday.

I really do hope it gets the appreciation that it deserves here in India. It's a genuinely good show and I miss watching it, and I really don't want to go on illegal, "redirecting to inappropriate places" websites everytime I want to watch it.

Excuse my emotions, I'm just really happy.