Im just gonna have a whinge for a second here. My whole school life has been a big clusterfuck of being separated from everyone I know. Year 2 I got split up, made knew friends, Year 3 got split up from my old ones AND my knew ones; ended up being alone most of the year because I was a shy little shit. Year 4 was the exact same. Year 5 my friend had to make a fucking deal with the teacher to be put in the same classes, so then next 2 years were me basically learning how to not be so shy.
High School - Year 7 was actually awesome, made knew friends, all that jazz. Year 8 - guess who took out her bad feelings at a shitty home life on her best friend, alienating all my others at the same time? ME! So at this point I'm at 0 friends and feeling guilty as over being a massive bitch. Hang out with my cousin, get told by her friends that they don't want me hanging out with them soon after. Year 9, cousins friend group implodes, we're in the same class so we're friends now, and we make a few more throughout the year.
Year 10, and the classes are now split into alphabetical order. Every single one of my friends has a name that ends in shit like Z,W,S, all that. Alphabetically, I had the 3rd name in my entire year level. Electives weren't so bad. Year 11, they were so bad (mostly). Less classes with people I know well, more with people I kinda know and their friends, so I felt like a weird shit and a burden on them. Also more classes with a girl I'll call Seagull, because she reminded me of a bird. Seagull was really fucking annoying and lazy, but I didn't want to sit alone. We shared nearly identical timetables, and she never contributed to conversations. I would have had better talks with an actual bird. Seriously, I could go on for days about Seagull. Year 12 was the exact fucking same, combined with a fuckton of stress from schoolwork.
I just hated that feeling of an entire class being great friends already, and at the start of the year being the only person not part of that circle. It's not that I didn't know people, it's just that they were in an entire different rotation of classes to me. I missed having someone to talk to, and when you find that person and get split up from them again, it just kills you inside.