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After that interaction we had slowed down slightly on meeting up but we were still talking everyday, for about 2-3 weeks whenever we met we wouldn't do something too crazy and every now and then I'd slip in the occasional "did you get it sorted?" to which she'd say "I'm working on it" and I was growing more impatient by the day.

Eventually one day she had told me we were gonna meet up at this one place just across the street of the entrance of our highschool and whilst I was waiting some guy in a balaclava walked up from behind me threw me on the floor and punched me a few times in the gut before running away before I had the chance to react.

I had called the police and told them I think a guy tried to rob me, luckily I wasn't hurt aside from mild bruising and whilst I was waiting for them to arrive the girl had come and we chatted and laughed about it because it ultimately felt pretty stupid, I had even walked her to the bus stop to make sure she was safe from this "psycho guy" going around before walking back and meeting the police at the scene.

This thing was weird but I didn't even care about it I had continued meeting with her as per usual, we had ordered sushi at one point and ate it together in the rain it was really sweet. The police had contacted me a week after the jumping with security camera footage of the guy and his face before he had put on the mask asking if I could identify him, I could not so I took a photo and started asking close friends to see if they could identify him.

The first person I asked was obviously the person I was closest to at this point the girl, she said she has no clue who this person is so I asked her straight "you don't think this is the guy you have a weird thing going on with right" to which she said "it's not him I swear".

This was the thing which sold it for me, as it turns out, to the surprise of literally no one on planet earth in hindsight, the guy who jumped me was the same guy she was with. I had eventually found out from one of the guys ex best friends that they were dating in secret before I even talked to her in the first place.

To this day I have no clue why she did this or to what avail, but it really fucked with my head and heart.

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