Why would she befriend me
College here. High school was death. Physical and verbal bullying. In summer I forced myself to work on social skills with jobs, raised my confidence a little with exercise and flopped about. So I can socialise better than the shy high schooler I was, starting conversations and meetings people, but I still get anxious. And then there's a new girl. She first saw me in the hallway on one of the first days, and she seemed quite cool, and we talked a tiny bit and bought snacks together. She says she wants to talk to people and is shy, but she brought me to a table with many new people on it and seemed quite bubbly. Clearly she knew at least one of them, and talked with ease. But she insists on asking for my number and sitting next to me, and meeting up in study periods. I kind of like her, she's calm and friendly, but I'm nothing interesting, a little shy, and I can's stop wondering why she shows friendship to me. I'm scared to befriend her because I feel as if it could be a trick, or that she will discover that I was and am a loser and ditch when bored or ashamed. She was the one who started the conversation. I was alone in a hallway. Was it pity? Did she want to avoid being seen alone? Am i a security net? Or was it genuine? She calls me her friend and it's been a week. I feel like I can't trust people and I'm undeserving of her.