I saw this coming, but I didn’t have a way to fix it. After my theatre competition, spending all that time with someone I had met just a few weeks prior, I knew I was going to feel really alone once things went back to normal. Just a little background: I’m in a theatre class in school. We were doing a pantomime scene assignment. I didn’t have a partner, and this other girl in my class didn’t either. This was because her best friend was going to enter the upcoming theatre competition, which excused her from the theatre class assignments. So we got it done, and my theatre teacher asked if we wanted to enter the competition in the pantomime category. We decided we would. On the day of the competition, we spent seven hours together. We had gone from having never spoken to being (at least I thought) good friends. Before the competition, I knew I’d have to go back to finding random people in the class to work on stuff with, because there was no way she’d work with me over her best friend. However, after the competition, I thought maybe she would since we had so much fun with it. Today was the first day of class since the comp, so we were back to doing class assignments. We started a new one today, and I had some hope. But, lo and behold, she partnered with her best friend; no hesitation. There was one scene you could do for this assignment that required a group of three, but they didn’t do it. So, I’ve now returned to having to have my teacher find someone for me to work with. Long story short, on the way out of class, something else happened that made me feel even more excluded from everyone else. I’m trying so hard to make more friends, but it just seems to fail every time.