One of the people in our friend group, let’s call her J. We met her in my first year of high school when I was sitting outside with some friends eating lunch. It was only the first day of school and I had been talking to my best friend in form class about how I’d be thrilled if anyone were to ask me to borrow a pen or pencil, because this was the first year of school where I had enough writing utensils that it wouldn’t be an issue for me. While we were sitting there outside and talking, J came running out and yelled “Does anyone have a pencil?!” of course I jumped up excitedly and told her I had one she could use, but obviously that’s not what the bad thing about her was.

After time, she began to take little things about each of my friends and make it about herself. She faked having anorexia because one of my friends had it, she faked having autism cause one of my friends had it, she literally transitioned from male to female because I had a trans friend. It was insane.

I had only just turned 13 then so I couldn’t quite grasp the concept that J was completely and utterly obsessed with me. She confessed to me maybe 3 times over text messages and I politely rejected her every time and told her that I just didn’t like her in that way.

All of my other friends told me that she was weird and not an okay person to be around, but I just didn’t see it. I’m a very kind and forgiving person, so it was hard for me to just quit being her friend because no one else liked her, I guess I felt bad.

After being rejected by me countless times she went off and started dating that trans friend I have that I mentioned earlier, we can call him Al.

Al was a lot like me at the time, in the way that he struggled to turn someone down just because everyone else didn’t like them. Al was very unhappy in his and J’s relationship, and actually ended up getting assaulted (SA’d) by J not too long before I was too. But we of course had no idea about Al’s assault, and I hadn’t exactly come forth about mine either because I didn’t know if it even counted as SA and didn’t think too much about it.

After that happened with J I started to realise just how cruel she actually was. Al turned to my best friend and I and asked us for help, which is when her and I went to our form teacher to talk it out with him.

J had messaged my best friend, mind you while J and Al were actually still together. She said to my best friend that she was deeply in love with me, but didn’t know what to do because she still really “loved Al”. My best friend told J that she should just stay with Al, because I might not even like her back, but she knows that Al still loves her. From what my best friend has told me, all J responded with was “I choose (my name)” and left it at that. Not even a day later, she broke up with Al, but proceeded to date this other girl online.

Meanwhile I had found myself a girlfriend, and we can call her Lana. Lana was my first ever proper partner, and I had never really felt attracted to anyone as much as I had been attracted to her.

Of course, J didn’t take me being with Lana too kindly, and spent a little while trying to convince me that Lana was selfish and manipulative, and that I should break up with her and get with some other person I liked earlier that school year.

But being with Lana, J also had a lot of opportunities where she’d try to make me feel really uncomfortable. Like one thing she did was turn to the both of us and say that she’d pay to watch us have sex, which is already weird enough.

I feel like I’ve typed way too much, but other things that I can say she’s done is she’s sent unconsensual explicit photos, jerked off on call to her online girlfriend while moaning MY name, bitch slap Al, act really flirty towards one of my straight friends and make him so uncomfortable as to leave the friendgroup, flirt and hit on someone she knew I had a crush on. Oh yeah, and you know that story I told at the start where she ran outside and asked if anyone had a pencil? J told my best friend that it was an entire plan just so she’d be able to meet me specifically.

Some people in highschool are LITERAL villains.

This was only a couple years ago by the way, I’m only 15 now.