i made friends with the new kid and he’s starting to scare me

i like to talk. a lot. i can make people laugh and about 70% of the time i can easily make small talk with people.

a bunch of new kids came to my school this year. one of these kids (let’s call him robbie) was not making very many friends because he didn’t talk to anyone and didn’t participate in class at all. i first saw him in my history class but i first talked to him at a school dance. i made a joke to my friend that was sitting with robbie and robbie found it very amusing. he told me i was funny and we started talking after that. once we became acquainted, he started to sit with me at lunch.

i don’t mind. i like the guy. i don’t have anything against him. but things started getting sketchy.

first of all, i learned that he has bad emotional issues. in my school, we’re not allowed to have our phones out during class, but he is. i asked him about it and he said it’s because he has depression and anxiety attacks. i believe him, but he just plays games the entire class. he also gets special accommodations with assigments and gets rewarded immensely for scratching the surface of what’s required.

i say all this to try and stress that i understand his mental health must be very poor, and i feel bad for him. i don’t blame him for struggling with his school work and i help him with it a lot. but i think said problems led to more.

i first noticed red flags when he begged to pierce my nose. i said no and laughed it off but he’s asked me more than once. and then he started asking me to skip class with him.

this is not the bad stuff, but it made me a little worried because i didn’t know the extent of what he would offer.

later he gave me his snap and i see him vaping and smoking on his story.

this is the part where i’ll say i am 13 and am in middle school. he’s been held back and is almost fifteen. this was very concerning to me because of our age.

a few days ago, i was in class and he asked me, ‘can i get you high? please?’

of course i said no. i asked him if he had weed on him but i couldn’t get a clear answer. anyway, during lunch that day, he was waving to this girl across the lunch room. i asked if they were friends and he said ‘no, she wants to beat me up.’ and he laughed. i didn’t want to be part of it and the way this girl was glaring at us made me think she hated me simply because i sat with him. i made a heart and smiled at her in an absolutely pathetic attempt at displaying peace before i realized in HORROR that she must think i was mocking her. she came up to our table and said ‘i’m not your ducking friend. stop acting like it.’ to robbie. robbie kept trying to stir the pot and was waving and smiling at her to mock her. i told her to stop and i asked why she wanted to fight him.

it’s a long story about weed and weird people from my school but she was mad at him and said she was going to come to his house and beat him up. robbie even told me that this girl facetimed him and showed him to her mom who was holding a LOADED GUN and who said she would SHOOT HIM BECAUSE SHE KNEW WHERE HE LIVED.

obviously now i’m borderline scared. i told him i didn’t want to be a part of it because i don’t want to get in a fight with this girl (or her mom ffs). i got a snap from him this morning that said he would throw hands if she tried anything and he said ‘please done stop being friends with me.’

so now i don’t know what to do. i know he doesn’t have many friends and i know he struggled mentally. it’s not like i dislike him, i’m just worried about what could happen to me if this goes on. i know i should report this but then robbie will be mad at me and he’s told me multiple times about how he could easily fight back and beat people. dunno what to do.