I feel like high school baggage is ruining my current relationship.

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Basically my boyfriend & I dated in high school. Then we broke up, were on and off, and then became official again 2 years ago. I graduated 5 years ago. I haven't seen these people since. Well at a wedding my boyfriend went to, basically old high school friends he hasn't seen in a while brought up story time about me all the bad things I did when I was 16 - 18 years old. Some of it wasn't even true. They told stories about how I would drive to their places all angry in a rage when I didn't even have my license til I was 19 and in college. I would've had to steal my parents car, drive 20 miles out of the country, and drive without a license to do what their story said. And no I didn't have a friend or parent drive me there. It was not real and my boyfriend believed it until I whipped out my permits showing I still had permits during the time frame I knew them. We're in a delicate position. After the wedding he came back to town and I Was upset, on my period about other things. And during a hug he said, "I want to break up" I bawled and left and then 10 minutes after I called him and he said he'll give us a shot to take a break and that maybe he was mad. However when I was there 10 -15 minutes prior he told me "I am not mad. I am thinking clearly. I want it to be over." Yet after I leave he said he wasn't sure how he felt he needed some time. I don't know what to think, but I do know one thing is for sure.... That until our relationship is back rock solid again I can't have these people from high school busting open old wounds reminding him of what a moody, crazy little teenager they thought I was. I think overall I was a pretty normal girl I just hadn't had a lot of relationship experience, and I was the ONLY girlfriend in the group. They all were single and every fight my boyfriend and I would have would be like this huge theater production to them. I know I hardly see these people and my boyfriend hasn't seen them in a while, but he still hasn't let go of them and considers them friends even though they never return his calls and haven't seen him in a year or more despite only being 15 minutes apart. I really need them to back off. Maybe someday when our relationship is back on track they can blow their steam about me again and he can say "STFU" but in a delicate situation as we were, it was really hard. This was all 7 years ago. I didn't cheat on him, I didn't break his favorite toy or call his mom names. I didn't do crazy things. But they for some reason see me as such a bad person. I sometimes feel it was jealousy that I was taking their friend away as I was the only girl in the group for years until they finally got girlfriends in college. maybe i'm overreacting but when you're trying to straighten some things out in a relationship this is the last thing one needs.