Hi @cats1234 , nice to hear from you!
I'm sorry to hear that you're feeling really overwhelmed, it sounds like you've got a lot on your plate at the moment. I definitely experienced something similar with my friends during high school - even though I still had close relationships with a lot of the girls in my old group, it felt really weird when my group started to drift apart. It can feel a bit strange when group dynamics shift, and when you start hanging out with people one-on-one instead of in a big group setting. Have you spoken to any of your friends about what's been going on? Are any of them finding the adjustment difficult too?
I can hear that you really want to get involved in your brother school's formal, and that not having a date means that you're feeling a bit left out of all the things that your friends are organising. Is there any way for you to attend without a date? As for your own formal, what options do you feel like you have? If there aren't any boys that you're particularly interested in taking, could you organise to go to your formal with a group of friends? It sounds like a lot of them have dates, but could a group of you meet up beforehand and all go together? Some of my friends had dates to our formal, and some of us didn't, so we all just went together as a big group of guys and girls. Does that sound like something that could work for you?
