Toxic people will deliberately scheme and sabotage to exclude you from certain settings, unfortunately there isn’t much you can do when people take their side. They’ll provoke you and disrespect you to make you react negatively, and when you do they’ll use that reaction against you and turn you into the problem. Since they make sure that everyone else likes them and not you, the actual problem stays and you have to go. That’s the game of the psychopath. Abuse