new friends

Hey everybody. So glad i found a name for what i have. though that i just didnt have social skills! hahaha. first post/thread, more to come!

I'll keep this short and sweet. Basically, I feel lonely and want to hang around with a new group of people at school. I see them as potential friends. But I don't know how to make the first step. Where they hang out, it's quite far to the side, if that makes any sense. So to me it seems...

I know this is down to my SA, but how to do you hang around with a new group of friends at school? My other friends have left ('cos they're a year older) and now I'm kind of lonely, with only one other close friend (who is in the year below XD) and there's a group of people, I know quite a few...