For context, me (15F) and my best friend (15F) who will will call B have been friends for 2 and a half years. Since the middle of year 8. Now, at the end of year 8 we had a new student named O join our school. Me and O have had a pretty bad past.

I was at another school where I met O because she went on my bus. I felt really bad that she was alone constantly so I befriended her. My friends warned me that she is weird and that there was a reason she was alone. But I didn't listen... a few weeks into the friendship O started pushing me around physically and hitting me as well as touching me all the time. Ontop of this, she also began saying really inappropriate things and started talking sh!t about me behind my back. So I stopped being friends with her. Ever since then, she had been trying to get close to my friends but they all ignored her. Then I moved schools, and met B.

I told B about everything that O had done to me and that I didn't want the same thing to happen to B. I said it because I cared about her, not out of jealousy or revenge on O. Ever since then O started trying to get close to B. Then in the start of year 9 I had to leave school for 3 weeks because of surgery. I came back to find that B had been hanging out with O. I talked to her about it and said to her "I understand that you hung out with her when I wasn't here, but when I'm here please don't hang out with her because I know what she's like and I don't want to engage with her or drama." Which B said "yeah all good. I only hung out with her because I had no one else. I don't like here don't worry". Then O and B began talking when I was around and O began following us around at break times, joining in our conversations (private ones too), laughing when we laughed ect. So I just tried my best to ignore it but eventually B started making fun of my body with O and they would both laugh at me. I pulled B up about this and she got defensive and mad about me saying that I was just being over dramatic.

Eventually B started abandoning me and dumping me to go hang out with O, leaving me alone. This hurt me alot. Because at this time, O was doing the same thing that she did to me to B. Like hitting, pushing, saying inappropriate things, talking sh!t about her behind her back. And B knew about this. I tried talking to B multiple times about this but everytime she either got mad at me, ignored me and walked away, laughed it off, or tried to put the blame on me. This kept going.

I began making friends with other people because B was hanging out with O so often. One day, B dumped me for the ENTIRE day. Comes period 5 and 6 and about 10 minutes before she had to leave for the early bus, she asked me to plait her hair. Which is like a braid. I did, and I cut off the end of her plait. About 4 cm to be exact. She left on the early bus after that and when I got home about an hour after this, I felt really bad. I realised that I had let my emotions take over me and I had done something stupid out of hurt. So I texted her and said "hey, I'm really sorry about what I did. I had no right to cut your hair. My mum is an ex hairdresser if you want to come over and have her fix your hair. If not, I am willing to pay fir the damages."

She replied with: "I don't want to be friends with you. Not because of cutting my hair, that's the tip of the iceberg." And she listed a bunch of reason to make a long story short: "you don't like my dad. Your controlling. Your always seeking emotional support and playing victim. Your hanging out with E (the person I made friends with when she constantly dumped me for O). And people have been telling me not to be your friend" so I asked if any of these people telling her to stop being my friend were ever friends with me before? And she said no. So I replied to this with: "1. I despise your dad because he is a donkeys butt, he is mean to you and takes his anger out on you emotionally and physically. So yes, I don't like your dad but for a good reason. The only thing I have ever slightly "controlled you" about is O. I didn't want to engage with her at all and you completely disregarded my feelings. I asked for emotional safety in our friendship. Yeah, I needed someone to talk to when my mother was literally dying in hospital but other than that I haven't really needed much emotional support. Those people telling you to stop being friends with me have never even be friends with me before, so how would they know what being friend with me is actually like? I've been hanging out with E because you have been constantly leaving me alone to go hang with O so I needed someone else to hangout with. If you had come and talked to me about E then I would have said 'okay, I understand how you feel, I won't hang out with her when your around'"

Long story short, I ended up blocking her after she tried pulling the guilt card and manipulation card on me by saying things like "I know I'm such a bad friend and you shouldn't deserve me and I'm so bad.". AITAH?