Originally I kinda just did my own thing - I felt a bit alienated as I went to a decent private school and had a lower social standing then most of my peers (plus all my mates from here were schooled elsewhere).

Then, me being the type to call people on shit, I made a few friends here and there among the bullied and those with a similar background. Outcasts would be a suitable word for it I suppose. We had a decent range of ages, spent most of our free time hanging in an out of bounds area mucking around, chilling and basically looking out for eachother. There was no official leader and we were all free to do our own thing, but I sort of became a leader when one was needed for whatever reason.

Outside of my group I got on decently with most people including those I had bugger all in common with and got a bit of a reputation for two things. One, I wouldn't hesitate to tell a bully off even if it were a teacher (most were pretty chill at my school, but I did piss off at least two pretty severely), and two, I generally hung around with 'less savory types' so to speak outside of school. There was even some bullshit rumour going on during my final year that I was apart of some local Mafia type thing - stupid as my home town has nothing of the sort.

So yeah, pretty much the same way I could be grouped now.