Trouble with friends

My husband and I had been the best of friends with Tom and Martha, another married couple for almost seven years. We also had another mutual friend, Stella, a highly acclaimed jazz singer. Stella had a nine-year-old daughter that she could not control, and whenever Stella would go out on gigs, she finally ran out of babysitters. One night when Stella was in a bind for a sitter, Martha agreed to go to Stella's house to babysit. She could not control Stella's daughter, and had a terrible time with her! When Stella got home that night, she and Martha got into quite a confrontation about Stella's daughter! During their argument, Stella made up a bunch of lies on me, Cricket, that supposedly I had said against Martha. Without first confronting my husband and me about these lies, Tom and Martha chose to believe Stella, a very convincing gal, and they began plotting and pulling meanspirited pranks on me. When I finally found out from Stella that 'I had become the fall guy in their confrontation', I sent Tom and Martha an email, telling them that 'I had never said/done anything against them; that Stella told me I, Cricket, had become the fall guy in their confrontation'. I also told them that "I forgave them the meanspirited pranks they plotted and pulled on me". We never heard from them. Six weeks later, my husband called Stella and they agreed to meet at a restaurant, presumably to iron things out. Stella, who is the ultimate self-centered prima donna, had NOTHING to say about her bad behavior, and all she could say was that "Cricket needs help"!!! In other words, she wanted us all to make up...as long as I would agree to continue being the fall guy, making Tom and Martha believe that I was the culprit all along... but that they all wanted to make up but "Cricket needs help"!!! Later, another friend of Martha's came to me...expecting ME to make up with Martha! My husband and I thought it was Tom and Martha's place to approach us, and/or at least show SOME remorse. My husband thought that things could never be quite the same since Tom and Martha never showed one ounce of remorse, and to forget them. We chose not to make up with people who behaved the way those three individuals did, but this has bothered me because we really enjoyed Tom and Martha's company. I would like to know what others think we should do, or what we did wrong. Submitted by Cricket

They WERE your friends, they're not NOW...says it all, doesn't it! Don't hanker for what you all HAD, look at how it is NOW and decide from there...do you really WANT people like THAT in your life?????