AITA for not saying anything when my friend was excluded from the group vacation?
My best friend was had this friend group full of all of these cool guys that I really wanted to hang out with. My friend was kind enough to introduce me to them and we hit it off. We started hanging out more and more but I realized i started getting invited to the hangouts more while he was getting invited less. It almost felt like I was replacing him. Summer comes around and my friend says that we can go to his lake house but that he was only allowed to have 4 guests. There were 6 guys including me. This worked out for them any other summer but now that I was here they didn’t know what to do. We had a good discussion about it without my friend there and they decided that I would go and then this time my friend would sit out. In the moment i felt horrible for not sticking up for my friend and he was upset with me too. He called all of us a-holes and said we were all fake friends. Looking back on it he has been to the lake house every summer since like 8th grade and I had never been before so it wouldn’t be that bad to sit out one. At the same time I would be mad if the friend I introduced to the group started slowly replacing me as well. AITA for not make an effort to include him in plans and the vacation?
(EDIT: ok this might’ve sounded a bit bitchy so let me clear something stuff up so maybe I should like less of an asshole 😭. When I say “cool kids” I don’t mean popular kids I mean just some fun guys; im not seeking popularity. Me and my best friend still hang out regularly. I did not vote for him to not be included I just did not say anything in his defense. They told me that he was getting annoyed so I wasn’t entirely a replacement I was just saying it felt like I was)