Nice. I used to have a few! We would hang out, we went to Carowinds once with the youth group, some of us did dramas for church (though a couple of the guys didn't), we used to have each other's phone numbers.... Then they all vanished. One if the guys liked my friend I was bringing, her mom decided not to let her come church with me anymore do he stopped talking to me. Another friend left the church, but sometimes visited. I ended up moving away, and no one ever talked to me again. It's been about a year and a half now. Oh well. They weren't real friendsI'm better off without them.
It is good you are confident even when they left. 
