A friend hurt me, but I feel guilty for pulling away
Just to give you some context, I’m not very good at making friends; I like to take my time and make an effort to get to know people. Anyway, earlier this year I met a group of people I really liked, and they liked me too. It turns out that after a while, a girl in this group told me she had feelings for me. I didn’t return her feelings and distanced myself out of respect, and she did the same, but weeks later she reached out to me to hang out again but just as friends.
Everything went well; I felt like we were friends again, like “in the beginning,” even without a full level of trust, but I already felt closer in that friendship. One night when we went out for drinks, she started acting passive-aggressive toward me, and it got to the point where she and her other friends (from the same group) started making fun of me for something I said (my mistake for trying to fit in, I’ll admit that; I’d been saying things I didn’t know were true just so I wouldn’t be left out), but that time she realized that I had no idea what I was talking about, so they made fun of me. I felt it in my gut, I promise you, it’s a feeling I’ve heard about in movies but had never experienced so horribly. It was a knot in my stomach; it was realizing and starting to wonder if this has been going on for a while... have they been making fun of me for a long time? I felt hurt and walked away. I set my boundaries, but I keep wondering if it was the right decision. Maybe I overreacted?