I've known R for several years. She was part of the friend group I joined in third year, and while we didn't have much in common, we still got along alright. Fast forward to the present. Half the group have left, two are barely there - R's the only one who comes to school consistently. She sits next to me at break and lunch, rides the bus to town with me, and I've just realised I genuinely hate her.
She's absurdly privileged. Her family has three cars and lives in one of the richest areas in town. Her grandfather is a millionaire. I'm the child of a single mother and my family is on benefits. During the height of the cost of living crisis, I told her I was worried we wouldn't be able to pay the heating bill. She told me /she/ was affected too: her family might have to cancel /one of/ their holidays to the ****ing Canary Islands. She chucks half of her lunch in the bin every day, and has been doing so for over a decade, because she can't be ****ed to take a packet of Pom Bears home. It drives me insane.
She's ignorant, vapid and unintelligent. She makes fun of people who are smarter than herself. She pretends to be leftist but gets all of her political information from Tiktok. She is 17 years old and believes she can reality shift to Hogwarts. When my mother was undergoing cancer surgery, she emailed me to rant about how I was 'disrespecting her religion' for telling her witchcraft and Draco Malfoy were not real. Wish I'd ended our friendship then and there. She's taking two Nat 5s and a college course, which'd be embarrassingly easy for a fourth year, yet alone a sixth year, but she still complains about the workload. She doesn't have a single Higher qualification because she spent all of fifth year distracting the teachers and refusing to learn. She still brags about doing this. She tries to prevent me from studying when I'm taking three Advanced Highers and a Higher. She mocks me for caring about my results.
She's pathologically lazy - she once refused to brush her teeth for almost a year. She left a rotting sandwich in her bag for six months, because it was too much effort to throw it out. She'd refuse to go out with the rest of our friend group, claiming it was too much effort to get on the bus, but she's made a new friend recently and constantly brags about how much time they're spending together. I have no clue what he sees in her. Every day I'm stuck sitting next to her and it's enough to make me want to scream. I want to tell her she's a piece of **** but I'm scared of the ramifications. My other two friends still get on with her and I don't want to lose them.