my advice;
DO NOT DITCH YOUR OLD FRIENDS FOR POPULAR PEOPLE!!
They will most likely stab you in the back someday and you will have no one to turn to.
I say, you can do BOTH! Be friends with your old friends AND your new "popular" friends. Or, why don't you invite your old friend to hang out with your new friends.
BEcause I will tell you from expirience, that the "popular" kids are not all that nice and they will stab you in the back whenever they feel it is necessary.
I am friends with the so-called "popular" people at my school, but I still mostly hang out with my REAL friends, my drama friends, my "nerdy" friends.
I love them to death. Sure, it's fun to go out and party with the popular kids, but I wouldn't completely ditch my real friends for the popular kids.
Really, the only reason I'm "in" with the popular kids, is because my boyfriend is one of them. I know if anything ever happned (and it won't! *knock on wood!*) with my boyfriend and I they wouldn't give a crao about me and If I ditch my old friends I'd be out in the cold.
Bottom line: do NOT be mean/exclude you old friend just because you think the popular kids are cooler or whatever.
I know that was a long post but I think it will help you to read it.
I'm in my senior year of high school and I have learned ALOT about dealing with cliques and the popular kids and such. So take my advice. Don't be a ditcher
Good Luck!!
caitlin
Okay... well im not in the fight with that other girl i had talked about before!! But.... my life is never balanced!! My other friend is aparently mad at me because i "am to popular and doesnt pay any attention to my other friends" IDK!! okay well last year i was like the defanition of LOSER!! this is year APARENTLY i am very popular... idk im just friends with alot of popular people... but ya know if they wanna say that FiNE! its a complement and i just say thank you. which... now that i think about it sounds kinda snobby
... so she is mad that im "to busy with my popular friends and being popular with them"!!! idk... idc! if she doesnt want to accept that shes not my only friend like she was last year she can do that! i have ENOUGH problems in my life!! Friends, family, projects, homework, boys, rumors i have to deal with that are ABOUT me!!!! if your gonna be dramatic and cause a big scene... GOOD-BYE!! im sorry but i dont need any extra drama!!! 
