Don't know what to do. I'm being asked to go out tomorrow night because it's a friend's 18th birthday, but I
really don't want to. Another friend said to me, "you better had because I don't want to be left alone with his chav mates". That's the thing, since we left school, he started smoking and got popular in college, and now he keeps what is in my opinion the most unsavoury company. Put simply, I don't want to be going out with any friends of his. I don't drink and I don't smoke, and that's all his birthday night out is going to be - he often stayed out drinking until sunrise before, the only difference is that it's no longer illegal for him to do it.
I can't just say no, can I? And I'm not going to fabricate a reason not to go out. I just don't think it's appropriate to tell him that I'm barely comfortable around him, let alone his friends, and the truth is that
they are probably the normal ones, not me. I'm all for broadening my social horizons but this is really not for me! I just needed to share how I'm feeling about it, it's like a load off. I'm not sure what I'll do, but the whole thing is making me feel like this!