Teen heartbroken after friends exclude her from prom photos – despite hosting party

A teenager has shared her upset after she learned her friends took group pictures without her while getting ready for prom, despite having hosted a party for them all before the occasion

Almost every teenager will tell you that prom is the most important event on the social calendar. One 18-year-old who would likely agree went all out to help her friends celebrate the occasion in style, by inviting them all over to her house to get ready together. She even hosted a small bash after the party.

So, you can imagine how upset she was when she realised her so-called friends took group photos without her during the get together before the event. To her surprise, they posed for a number of snaps in her family ‘s garden without including her – even though she was nearby inside.

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And to make matters worse, when the heartbroken teen confronted one of her pals, she did not think they had done anything wrong.

Sharing her side of the story in a post to Reddit ‘s Am I the A*****e forum, the teen wrote: “For senior prom this year, I invited my friends over beforehand to get ready together and take pictures and hosted a small afterparty. Most of my friends were riding to prom on a party bus planned by my friend Sophie (I didn’t participate because of the expense.)

“Most of them also took pictures at a different location before coming to my house. Our plans were split up in a couple different ways, making it difficult to plan for everyone, and we all had to be flexible.

“There ended up being 12 people at my house (+ their parents) most of them girls and most of them asking me and my family for assistance getting ready. It was pretty hectic, so I ran a little late getting ready. By the time I was finished, everyone was ready except for my friend Rachel, who was waiting on me to do her makeup.”

She continued: “As I was finishing up Rachel’s makeup, the party bus arrived, and Sophie and her mother started rushing everyone outside to take start taking pictures, without us. My mom was focused on helping us get ready, fetching our jewelry, etc. and they went outside into our backyard without mentioning it to her or anyone.

“By the time Rachel and I made it outside, they had already taken a bunch of group pictures without me, Rachel, and her boyfriend; when we got out there, pictures with us were more of an afterthought, and they moved on to individual pictures, which they could have taken when the whole group wasn’t there. There is not a single picture with the entire group in it.”

Explaining why she was upset, the host added: “Rachel and both of our parents were pretty upset about the pictures, because neither of us had been included in the group that took pictures before coming to my house. We were irritated with everyone, but Sophie and her mom’s behavior in particular bothered me, because they seemed to feel that they were the ‘leaders’ and had played the largest part in rushing everyone.

“I hadn’t planned to say anything, but later we were all hanging out and Sophie started joking about how long we took to get ready and saying stuff like “You took so long that we had to start pictures without you.”

“I responded by asking if Sophie thought that was a very considerate thing to do, to take pictures without me and Rachel in my own house. She immediately became defensive.

“During that conversation, I also found out that another friend of ours had asked if they should wait for us, and Sophie’s mom had told her that that as unnecessary; so it wasn’t that they forgot to include us in the rush, they consciously decided that it didn’t matter.”

Her post concluded: “Sophie doesn’t seem to thing that they did anything wrong, which makes me wonder, AITA?”

But commenters were quick to reassure the teenager she was not wrong to feel excluded.

One person said she was “not the a*****e”, before adding: “That WAS pretty inconsiderate of them. They should have taken more group pics when you got outside. You shouldn’t have to feel like your aren’t important enough to wait for.”

And another agreed: “Sophie’s not a real friend.”

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