Have You Ever Distanced Yourself From Someone

Have you ever distanced yourself from someone because you didn’t want to seem “uncool”?  Has anyone ever done that to you?  Explain why and how it felt (or how you feel about it now in retrospect).  5-7 sentences

As a young first grader, I was new to my school, and was ready to converse and make friendships with as many students as I could. After a few weeks of making connections, I decided that my strongest bonds were with five kids. Unfortunately, one of these five kids was quite un-liked and unpopular. I had three or four playdates with him, but I noticed that my four other friends were distancing from me because of this one unpopular student. I had to think fast; would I betray a bond I had made because of social status, or stay with a friend and face the consequences of unpopularity? I chose to betray the bond. After looking back at this experience, I wish I had found a better way to keep the bond I had shared, while also sparing my social statues.