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It sounds like it's mostly the girls giving you the problem. You're being the nice guy, not asserting yourself, and they're smacking you around verbally because it's safe, they can, and they're miserable people (a lot of people are, at 17-18; some grow out of it). Teenage girls are no smarter or kinder or wiser or more responsible than teenage boys; they have a different set of priorities and different tactics, but they'll bully (in their girl way) defenseless people just like guys do. If you assert yourself and push back, they'll stop. Of course then they won't know what to do with you in the group; may not have a place for yourself.
And you may ask, why should I _have_ to push back? Why don't they just treat people decently? Good question. If they were reasonable people, you wouldn't have to. They're not reasonable people.
You say you're a good guitar player. What I would do is just drop these creeps, stop coming around. Go set up someplace public, at school or otherwise, and just play the guitar. People will come up to talk, believe me. Show an interest in the ones you like, politely ignore the ones you don't.
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