These people only have as much power over you as you allow them to have. Their anger is intangible; being angry at you can make you feel bad, but it can not hurt you. Do not be afraid of someone being mad at you.
Go to school and talk to someone new and when your "friends" try to peer-pressure you out of talking to them, assert that you are not in a power clique; you will make friends outside of the cloister if you please, and assert that if they can not accept that then they are not your friends, they are a group of abusers pretending to be friends.