Is it normal that I have one very close friend?

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So, I have a very close friend with whom I do nearly everything with, we spend most of our time together and up until recently I have been very happy. I have other friends too. Just a few people that I'm at a level were if I saw them in the street I'd give them a hug, if they had a party I'd be invited. But recently people have been making me feel like that's not enough, I have another friend that I'm quite close to who is in my form, lets call her Lucy, who goes on about how I need to get more friends because my the closest friend I mentioned, lets call her Sarah, is my only friend. I always assumed it was because she was slightly jealous that I liked Sarah more than her. But then today, I was talking to a girl who I was vaguely friends with, lets call her molly, we had both been invited to a party and I asked her whether Sarah had been invited, half jokingly saying that I wasn't used to going places without her. She gave me this weird look, then in a latter lesson Molly told Lucy what I had said, then they started going on about how I only had one friend, this shocked me because molly is well known for being really nice and I thought they where my friends aswell, especially Lucy. I explained to them that Sarah was my favourite friend, then Molly sniggered and said "Your one favourite friend."

This really upset me, I had always been vaguely bothered by Lucy but for Molly to be rude to me really shocked me, it also made me think about how many friends I actually had, other there Sarah there where hardly any! I'd say there are only about twelve people in my school that I would call a friend. Is this unusual? Are Lucy and Molly right? I have always considered myself well liked and vaguely popular. Does me just having one best friend make me a loser?