For context, I am junior in high school in the US, so having extracurriculars and leadership positions are super important. My friend group consists of four people including me, and one of them joined our friend group just this year. One of the friends in my friend group started a club at my school during our freshman year with their older sibling. As such, they were the vice president of the club in freshman and sophomore year, and currently the president in our junior year. Since our friend started the club, me and my whole friend group has regularly been to every single meeting and are super involved in the club. Last year, they had executive board applications. Me and one of the other friends in the friend group applied for vice president. The other one who just joined our friend group applied for social media manager. Since there's only one vice president position, my other friend got it. So my three other friends hold executive board positions in this club, and I'm just a member. This is honestly kind of depressing because they have executive board meetings every week during lunch, so once a week I have to sit by myself because I have no other friends. Sometimes, I sit in on their executive board meetings because I really don't want to be myself. My friends say that at this point I'm basically an honorary executive board member but just don't have an official title.

Recently, my friends were talking about putting out secretary applications, because the current secretary is a senior. I (kinda) jokingly said "you should totally give that position to me haha". Then my friend was like "oh sorry i dont think we can. because the rest of the executive board are juniors, so we're all going to graduate, and the year after we graduate no one is going to know how to do anything. so i think we're gonna need to get an underclassman to take the position. sorry" Like I get their point, if I get the secretary position, then after we all graduate, there isn't going to be an executive board that is experienced and knows how to run club meetings. But here's the thing. I've been super dedicated to this club. More dedicated than the friend who just joined our friend group, because they only started coming to the meetings after they got on executive board. I even promote their posts on my instagram story to get more of my acquaintances to come too. I understand that it's really selfish of me to want the position, but I also feel like I kind of deserve it (not trying to be stuck up or anything). I really want the position so I dont have to sit by myself at lunch every week, but also because I desperately need a leadership position. I am genuinely so stressed for the college application season because I have almost no leadership experience. Also I feel like it would be embarrassing to put on my application that i've been in this club for four years as a lowly member,without any promotions or anything like that.

I really want to confront them saying all this, but I dont want to ruin the friendship because they're my only friends, and i dont want to seem stuck up. I also want to suggest that I could become secretary and they could create like 2 other roles, treasurer and executive officer, to give to underclassmen so the executive board doesn't completely start over after me and my friends graduate. The treasurer can keep track of the club's funds while the executive officer can stand in for any position that is not there. Is this complaint of mine valid, or am I just a stuck up, pretentious brat? please give me a reality check! thank you so much.