history: My friends all met up for dinner recently and I wasn't invited. Not happy about that at all. A bunch of my friends met up for dinner recently (I just found out)_comma_ but I wasn't invited. Not happy about that at all. Those don't sound like friends. I'd be extremely pissed off!
current: Exactly. One said they assumed I was busy or out of town, but those sound like excuses to me... Oh well.
next: Yeah, don't let them lie to you. I don't know them, obviously, but that sounds like an excuse to me too.