I feel like something I enjoyed has been stolen from me.

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I enjoy going and doing re-enactment. I like dressing up in costumes and all of that. The problem is, I had a friend who met through this same event. Something happened at the last event we were both at, and now we have gone from speaking for hours on a daily basis to no contact at all. We had tons of plans to do things over the summer. Go on road trips, Work on costumes, heck we were even talking about being room mates! But then whatever this is, happened and I have absolutely no idea of what exactly did happen!. She won't tell me. No one else seems to know. I keep hearing rumours but I know for a fact none of them are true.


What's frustrating is the rumours though. They make it out as if I got angry at her for something completely stupid. I was never her friend with the hopes of being more than her friend. I met her while she was seeing some one else, I accepted that, and we connected about art and books, I was perfectly content with that state of things, and had no plans to change it. So the rumours that put me as being angry at her for wanting to just be my friend.. when we were already only 'just friends' is angering and annoying. I'm not going to rule out having done something to make her mad, but if I did, I don't know what it was, and she hasn't bothered to tell me. So I'm left still wondering, and at the same time swallowing bitterness and resentment that she's off having fun while I'm sitting at home missing out.

The problem is, while she continues to attend the events, I've skipped the last two because I don't want to be around her. I feel as if I've had something I enjoyed doing stolen from me. But at the same time I feel that if she hates me so much now she won't talk to me, the least I can do is not ruin her time by showing up.

I'm extremely frustrated by this, and I'm even more frustrated by the fact that what little social life I had, is now gone, because of something I don't even understand. All the people who have asked me why I quit coming seem to not be able to understand. So long as she is going, I cannot go, not unless things go back to the way they were. And since she won't talk to me, and won't tell me what happened to make her be like this towards me.. I can only conclude that I will never go back again.

This may be a dumb idea, but I'll throw it out anyway: Attend the events with someone else who will portray the lost friend. In other words, another person will fill in for her, wearing the same costume and talking amiably with you like your friend used to do -- a different kind of re-enactment, you might say, the reenactment of the friendship. This will either get the point across to the former friend, or she will be so freaked out by seeing you with someone pretending to be her, she will stop attending the events. Like I said, might be a dumb idea, or better suited to a movie plot than real life, but worth thinking about.

You are being silly. Your friend doesn't "own" these events. Go and have a good time on your own. As for your friend, just ask her if you did anything that upset her, as she seems to be mad at you for some reason. Nobody is a mind reader! So, for pete's sake, ASK IF SOMETHING IS WRONG BETWEEN YOU AND IF SO, WHAT IS IT?

Why do so many people think other people should be able to read their minds?!

I don't have any advice for your situation, but I'm wondering if it's SCA that you are in for the reinactments. I've always wanted to join that.

I did ask, at the event in question, i was told 'Nothing is wrong'. In my experience, whenever a woman says "nothing is wrong" it means "Something is wrong and I have no intention of telling you what it is". She has had ample opportunity to tell me what the problem was, we formerly chatted, texted, and sent snail mail letters to each other.. now.. nothing. To be honest she was like a nice version of my sister.. but I'm wondering now if she wasn't exactly like my real sister.

As for some one else portraying her.. that would be a bit weird.. I'm perfectly fine without having her around, I simply wish she would have TOLD me what the problem was.

Also, No it isn't SCA, I wish it was as there are multiple chapters of that organization in my state and I could just attend a different one.