In my city at the moment we're on yet another covid lockdown where we're limited to stay put in our local government areas (lga).  This has been upsetting for me due to the fact that I (25F) can't see this really close friend that I've made who lives basically on the other side of the city to me.   We've become close over the course of this year from working at the same messed up place (I no longer work there), and we would hang pretty much every weekend and chat on the phone every other night.  For the record, it's purely platonic, not that this needs saying.

Anyway so the issue stems from the fact that this other individual has come onto the scene and is hanging with this friend of mine quite regularly (they have this person in common who has caused them a lot of harm in the past) and it's making me feel really scared and inadequate.  I don't have this in common with them, and I am scared that as the lockdown continues I'll just be forgotten in this other person's place.   It's not that I don't have any other close friends myself, it's just that we had called each other 'best' friends and were really, really close before lockdown and now I'm scared this other person is coming to take over everything and these thoughts are really consuming me and eating into my happiness.    I do have a past with people...".replacing" me with others, so to speak.  I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has experienced something similar and how they have managed to deal with it?  I am aware that I'm not necessarily thinking rationally, and any help/advice would be so much appreciated.    Also, one further piece of info is that this friends isn't necessarily giving me the cold shoulder either, I guess we haven't called to the same level we normally would have though.