How do I get a clingy, extroverted friend to leave me alone?
I am an introvert in a very loose sense of the word, I. believe. I can be very rowdy, very loud, and I love people, but that love needs energy. I get that energy from the copious amounts of alone time I give myself.
I have this friend, who is quite similar to me with the love of people, but not about where they get their energy from. This friend seems to want to be around me 24 / 7. They are at my house every weekend, they try to get on my bus every Friday afternoon, every hangout they try to turn into a sleepover, every activity I mention they ask to come along with me, and every activity they do they invite me as well. I love them to death but the amount of time they want to spend with me is exhausting.
Today (Friday), they were able to get onto my bus yet again and go home with me, asked my father if I was available for a sleepover before asking me if I wanted to have a sleepover, and informed me after acquiring said sleepover that their parent plans to pick them up at ONE PM tomorrow. That is nearly twenty-four hours together, and they have been using this time together to try and plan future hangouts. I cannot do this.
What makes this worse is that this friend seems to have a... fragile view of my opinion of them. Every time I try to distance myself at all, they ask if I'm mad at them, even though I've said many times I just need quiet to replenish my social battery. How do I get this friend to understand that hangouts like this literally do nothing but make me upset and stressed?