help, what do i say??
 

last week i texted a friend from secondary school (we still chat occasionally and stuff so not really a big deal). we were messaging each other and now her latest reply was this:

sounds pretty cool [a musical i'm going to see at the end of the month]. i think fi saw that and said it was really really good, hope you enjoy it. when's your first exam? do you get study leave? we don't :-(

i haven't been to school for two months and i'm not sure i'll be sitting my AS levels! what on earth do i say? when we were doing our GCSEs last year, i think she knew i struggled with the exams, and also that i SH, but i've never actually talked to her about anything but the everyday things, school, family, things we've been doing. normally when people have asked about something like this, i don't worry about glossing over it and making it seem like i'm 'normal' because i know i won't have to go into it in much detail, but because i'm actually friends with this person, i feel a bit bad about lying, and then i'd have to keep lying too, inventing papers i never sat and grades i never got!

what can i say to tell her the truth without sounding like it's this massive attention-seeking deal? :ermm:

Hmm. That's a toughie. Personally I'd say that I'm still deciding what I'm going to do, might not take my exams but it's something that I'm still considering as we're so far into the year already.
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You could put something non-commital like grrr trying not to think about exams at the moment? something she could interpret her own way?

thanks for the advice, it helped a lot, i texted her back and now just have to worry about how she takes it. ah well, she can always pretend she never got it if she thinks i'm stupid!

Well done for telling her :)
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