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?
