Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : This girl, we'll call her Ruby is my classmate and a girl i knew since childhood. My mom was friends with her mom and me and Ruby got along pretty well.

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Growing up i realised that her mom didn't like me. She always had something bad to say about me, criticize my behavior, my clothes, everything i said or did. She always compared me to her daughter and brag about everything Ruby did. Everytime I was at their house visiting Ruby she'd always try to make me feel bad about myself. I ignored her because I cared about Ruby. I remember one times Ruby told me how her mother is always telling her to be better than me and how she hoped she could become me. I don't remember what I told her but her mom tried to make her daughter do everything I did but better. I started playing violin and two weeks later Ruby did too. I said once that I wanna go to med school and the next day Ruby wanted to become a doctor too.

I started noticing that she is harsh with her daughter. I don't wanna say she's abusive but from my perspective she seems like that. Ruby is allowed to only wear clothes that her mother picks, read books that her mother picks, and all day long she has to study. (at least that's what Ruby told me). I don't know how to put this into words but I can see that Ruby is not acting the way she wants and she's very insecure. At first I tried comforting her and helping her but I grew tired of her mother and the way Ruby became.

Now we are in the same highschool and in the same class and Ruby's mother tries to make me look bad in front of my mom everytime she can.

One day mom came home very mad because she met Ruby's mother and she tried to tell her every single thing i did in school that seemed bad exaggerating everything. I don't skip school without a good reason but that woman told mom that I always skip classes and I have only bad grades and comparing me to her daughter and saying that Ruby is such a good child.

Mom is no longer friends with Ruby's mother because everytime they saw each other my mom didn't feel comfortable talking to her. My mom said that Ruby's mother always had an "I'm so much better that you" attitude and she grew tired of it (just the way I did).

Because we are in the same class Ruby tries to talk to me and to spend time with me but I don't feel comfortable doing that anymore so I started avoiding her. I always responded politely to her but I tried to let her understand I don't wanna talk to her or hang out with her but she doesn't get it. I started running away from her everytime I saw her and when Ruby wanted to go with me to the subway station I'd always make excuses so I don't have to spend time with her. I kinda feel bad about this but I don't feel comfortable spending time with her anymore but I also feel like an asshole for doing this.

So reddit, am I the asshole for avoiding Ruby?