
See it’s always good to just do work and communicate with the prof. I had a similar situation with a group project and i genuinely didn’t have a chance to meet with my group but I was busting my ass doing my part. But I found out that my group went to the prod behind my back to get me kicked out of the group. Prof didn’t let them because he knew that my work was going to save their grade. Sure enough we got a C and that’s because my contribution was the only functional part of the project.
In HS, there was this “better than you” prick I got assigned to work with for a Civil War project. I was assigned to Stonewall Jackson and I organized all the info with the appropriate citations. This mf didn’t put any citations in the final work and demanded everyone to give him an A (we graded each other). On top of that, there was another member I had to pick up the slack on. I ended up giving the prick a C, and that was really generous. He matured at college though.