I (17F) used to be pretty close with this guy friend (17M), but about a month ago, he completely stopped talking to me. It happened really suddenly, right after my birthday, which he had actually been counting down to. He didn’t wish me a happy birthday or acknowledge it at all, and since then, he’s been ignoring me and acting super petty.

For context, a couple of months before this happened, I found out he had been sending the same/ very similar texts to both me and one of my close friends. My friend and I thought it was weird and would laugh about it, and yeah, we would kind of talk about him behind his back, but not in a super mean way. It was more surface-level jokes, and honestly, it was usually my friend who initiated it. I went along with it, and I know that wasn’t the best choice, but it’s not like we were being malicious and I was pretty upset about the situation.

I also found out around the same time that he was sending pictures of me (taken from public school Instagram posts) to group chats without telling me, which made me uncomfortable. He’s also got a bit of a reputation for being really arrogant about school (lowkey has a god complex) and fake to some people, but he was always nice to me until recently, so I let it slide.

Now, out of nowhere starting from a month ago, he’s completely ghosted me. I’ve heard he’s been calling me bad words and trash-talking me to mutual friends. He even took back a Minecraft account he had gifted me by changing the password like a week ago. What confuses me is that my other friend, the one who was just as involved, if not more, is now talking to him again and seems to be on good terms with him. But he’s only angry at me.

I genuinely don’t know how he found out what we said, because we were discreet and never said anything publicly. My only thing is that next year we have a lot of classes together, so it would be really awkward if this keeps going on. I’d honestly want to clear the air and understand what happened, but I don’t want to initiate it, especially after hearing the stuff he’s been saying about me, which, in my opinion, is way worse than anything I ever said about him.

AITA in this situation and should I do anything to resolve this?