Me (18M) currently go to Senior Year (I was held back in 9th grade). In our class, it’s 21 girls and 5 boys, meaning that usually we (the boys) tend to sit together in class.
The English teacher said that for our final semester we’d be doing an interview speaking project (Important to note I’m not from an English speaking country) in which in pairs we’d have to do a video interviewing each other. After she explained the project, we had to choose pairs.
My friend (17M) asked if he could do the project with him. Now, I have the best English level in my class and ever since Junior Year of HighSchool I’ve been doing my English group projects with him and I’ve basically been carrying him, which I don’t mind since he’s a cool guy. So it was only natural I agreed to do the project with him.
However, as we had to turn in our tests that she had also given. Another friend (17F) asked if she could do the project with me, since her friend group in class is 3 people and thus she was left out. Moreover, while the other 2 girls have a good level of English, she clearly doesn’t, so she asked me if I wanted to do the project with her.
Now, I’m closer friends with her than with him, since we went on a student exchange program together. And I had never done an English project with her, so I accepted her proposal. However, this meant now I had to tell my other friend that I wouldn’t be doing the project with him.
Thus, at the end of the class I told him I wasn’t doing the project with him. And he got very mad, he called me a traitor, an asshole, and told me that if I went through with that he would not talk to me ever again. Even worse, he would be paired with another classmate (17M) and, let’s just say they both really hate each other. I told him I would write the script for his interview if he wanted, as a way to at least make him feel better, but he rejected.
Ever since then he doesn’t say hi to me, he refuses to shake my hand (ironically he shakes the hand the guy who he hates) and has created somewhat of a bad mood between the 5 boys of the class, since he constantly avoids talking to me in any way shape or form. I understand that what I did was probably wrong, but It’s been almost 2 weeks and he’s still acting like this over an English group project.
AITA?
You paired with him first. It was not nice to accept and then drop him when you got a better offer. YTA