I wanted to ask how is the best way to communicate your feelings about a friendship? I think everyone has a certain amount of "toxicity", and I, as well as some of my friends, recently proved that.

The situation in a nutshell was we had individual projects to present, for the presentation we agreed as a (college) class that we'd all pitch in during each other's presentation day. When the deadline arrived, only a few of the class were able to submit. Most of the class, including myself and my friends, didn't make the cut. Our professor still asked us to help out during presentation day.

I had accepted my fate and my responsibilities in assisting, I was the lead planner. My friends on the other hand had a variety of feelings about it, which I understand they have every right to feel. What caused conflict between us was when we needed to help out. we'd been planning for that day for a while and had everything we needed figured out. Most of the class was present and helping, my friends however came later and was upset whenever I asked them to pitch in. What's more frustrating was a friend was the assigned collector and holder of the finances. In the end we ended up shelling cash and having it reimbursed later. The money was handed over with not so much as an apology for the inconvenience caused. The other friends complained about having to help and what not.

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They're my friends. I consider them to be my close ones. I've always accepted our differences, but idk this time I felt so tired of it all. Part of me wants to just continue my studies alone, I still have to finish my own project. How do I explain that how they behaved was frustrating and unnecessary stress to what was already a stressful day?

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I'm sorry for the long post.