Teens drinking?

Im going to start off by saying, I don't drink. I have never even tried a sip of alcohol. I am 16, smart, love life, want to get a good job, and I can still have the time of my life sober.

I have a group of friends with two best best friends. We all balance each other out. I am the social and spontaneous one, my friend is the smart, grounded and quiet one, then there is the other. She is kinda the random one of our group of friends. She is boy crazy but doesn't get any, wants to feel accepted and gets overly jealous. Don't get me wrong, we still love her! She is what makes us whole. ;)

This girl likes to drink but she's not a partier. She only drinks because she thinks its cool and wants to be accepted. She also thinks I'm weird for never have trying it. My question is, Does drinking really make you 'cooler'?

I go to a very small school, there are only 25 of us in our grade. There is one girl in our class whom nobody likes. She is a huge slut, rich kid, parties and drinks all the time. She is one of those teens that would come to school hung over and want to tell everyone about it. She is one of those teens that has sex and want to tell everyone about it. Nobody cares or thinks she's cool for doing it. People think she is annoying and literally out of the 25 of us, she has no good friends.

Wouldn't that show that drinking, sleeping around, and being bad isn't necessarily a good thing? No one thinks you are cooler for getting drunk on the weekends. I can say I am very happy as a alcohol virgin ;)
People do stupid things while drunk then never remember the night. They usually hook up with some guy, have terrible pictures of them posted on social sites, then get a bad reputation.

Why? Why drink? Why would anyone think it makes them cooler?
Its such a cliche question but I would legit like to know the answer.
My friend told me she drinks because she has more fun while drunk. How come someone would need to not be themselves to have fun. Alcohol changes who you are so all you are doing is masking yourself to be 'more fun'.

I may get made fun of for not smoking, drinking, or sleeping around but I can imagine how much MORE made fun of I would be if I did do those things. I hear how people talk about them behind their back and I know I judge people who choose to do those things. I would rather have friends who like to party with me as me, then party with a lifeless drunk teen who only lasts for as long as they can be drunk.

You get dammed if you do, dammed if you dont.

Make the decision for yourself, not others.

Peer pressure = not cool ;)