Hey, so I was wondering how I could become better friends with my old social circle. They were all fairly popular, and I guess I was last year too (I'm a bit more of a loner <I mean I have friends but not like a large social circle like before> this year, and you're might be thinking: how do you go from being cool to being a loner? But it happened, so whatever). Were mostly all still friends and cool with each other but were not the same crew we were last year. So how can I get us to start being closer without coming across as needy. I figure I can just ask them if they wanted to hang out again after school or something, but how can I do that without looking like I'm hitting on the girls or trying to get with them (I'm really not, honestly, I just miss the friendship haha, as lame as that sounds.)

I'm in high school by the way.