My [19F] friend [18M] is spending his Christmas alone and he doesn’t want to come over with my family anymore, how do I convince him to come?
I have been friend with him for 3 years and he lost his mother last year around this time. He spent last Christmas alone and this year he has nobody again. We share the same social circle and one of the girls there tends to talk a lot about him because he didn’t want to date her and she decided she hates him because of that. He’s a great person and he keeps to himself now after what happened last year. I like him and I know he’s somewhat into me and I have tried to be there for him because I have feelings for him and feel bad for him. Well, we were at a party a few days ago and I was with the girl he rejected and another friend of ours. We didn’t know he was there yet and he had been a few feet away behind us sitting alone. The 2 other girls were talking bad about him and making fun of him by saying really cruel things. I know he heard because another friend came over and told us that he had just got there and left after he heard what they were saying. He thinks I was also saying th...