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My story starts in 6th grade. I had a couple of friends but for the most part I was a loner. Until the first day of 6th grad when I sat down beside Abby, after that first time meeting, we were the best of friends. We had our own little friend group, and I felt so cool.

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I was terrified to start freshman year, but it was okay because I could see Abby between each class change and I had a couple friends in my classes. I had P.E. in the first semester which is where I met Noah. We met while playing dodgeball when he threw the ball, and it hit me and made me extremely embarrassed. After that day he added me on Snapchat, and we were really good friends.

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After knowing each other for months, and talking on the phone even outside of school, Noah asked me to be his girlfriend. I was ecstatic, I thought he was exactly what I wanted in a boyfriend.

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After dating for 9 months, we decided to break up because he was an immature teenage boy, and I was a naive teenage girl who just wanted a cute love story. After being broke up for a little over a month we decided to get back together, and all was good again.

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Noah and I dated for a few more months but we just decided that we were in different areas of our lives, and we just could not get along the way we were dating. We broke up and I thought that was the end of it, I was heartbroken, but I knew it was for the better. That was until September of 2023, and He came back and we started off as friends all over again. Our feelings for each other came flooding back and we started dating for the third time on October 9th.

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Abby was my best friend through all of this, we hung out anytime we had a chance. We would tell each other about everything and although Abby wasn't the biggest fan of Noah, she supported my decision to get back with Noah. Even she saw how different he was acting. She knew that he was making me happy this time and that he seemed like a whole new person. I knew everything about her, and she knew everything about me. We were attached at the hip.

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Noah and I celebrated Christmas together and were so happy together. At around this time, Abby started to act very distant towards me. Obviously, I investigated it, she was my best friend I had to be there for her. I ended up asking her about what had happened, and she told me that one of her friends that she had met on a softball team had committed suicide. It was devastating seeing what this event had done to not only Abby but the entire community. After I helped Abby through this tough time, she started acting like herself again.

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Noah's truck had broken down and I had to take him to and from school for about two weeks. This was around the time he had gotten a new job, and that came with a new group of friends. I had noticed that he started to act different, but I thought that was normal and that he would figure himself out after he got adjusted to everything. One day he got in my car and was exhausted, so I told him to just go sit in the back seat and lay down because I had to do carpool at the Middle school to pick up my sister too. He got into the back and asked for my phone so he could put on music. I gave him my phone with no hesitation, and he started to change the music. Right before I parked in the parking lot, I asked for my phone back because my dad had texted me and he kept telling me to hold on. Finally, after I parked, he gave me my phone back and acted normal all over again. Two whole days later, he texted me randomly starting an argument and saying that he found messages in my phone with some guy. Immediately I was confused because I didn't have anything that I needed to hide from him. He showed me what he was talking about, and it was messages that I had with a friend of mine that I had known since elementary school and that Noah knew I was friends with since we met back in freshman year. This started about a two-week argument because I could not see anything wrong with a random conversation with an old friend about a school assignment. Noah started to make me look like I was a cheater and would tell me that all of his friends agreed that what I had done was wrong. I talked to Abby and even my friend Bella about it because I could just not understand, and they frankly told me that they think he is just being ridiculous and just finding a reason to break up with me. And that is exactly what he did.

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I was distraught. I didn't understand why I was being broken up with and Noah never gave me a good reason for it either. After we broke up Noah would still randomly text me with a normal conversation and then he would turn it into an argument like it was a game to him. This is about the time Abby started dating this guy named Jaxon. Abby started to spend more time with Jaxon and less time with me, but I didn't see too big of a deal because their relationship was fresh. This was until one day she left a message I had sent her on open and never responded. I didn't think too much of that either and just let it be, that was until in class I asked her a question and she completely ignored me. After a week and a half, I confronted Abby about it, and she played it off as if I was being a psychotic girlfriend and that it wasn't a big deal that we were completely ignoring my existence. After she said that I decided I was done with begging anyone to stay in my life, be my friend or don't be my friend I can't put more into anyone that isn't putting any effort into me. A few days after this conversation I realize that Noah already had a new girlfriend that was one of the new girls he was friends with from work, and it all sort of made sense.

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After I found out Noah had a new girlfriend, I instantly connected all of the dots. March was the month that I took the most time reflecting on everything that had happened and deciding on what I wanted out of the people who came into my life from there on out. I decided I wanted respect, and I wanted to be treated like a person. I was tired of letting people just walk all over me like I had always done. Noah took any chance he could to treat me like trash as if I had ruined his life or something. It all started with randomly being flipped off or laughed at.

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Ever since my last conversation with Abby, I have yet to talk to her about anything at all. She has acted like I was never her closest friend and like I am just anyone now. I created new friendships and got closer to people that actually valued me as a person and treated me as a friend and I have to give Abby thanks for showing me what I could do on my own. Noah continued to show out every time I was around. It went from flipping me off and laughing at me with his friends to having his friends flip me off too and then started to yell names at me when I drove by. I would try to avoid him the best I could, but we parked in the same parking lot, so it didn't work out too well. The more I acted as if I didn't care what he was doing, the worse his stunts got. One day, a friend of mine told me that Noah had broken up with the one girlfriend and started dating this new girl. It was only a few hours later that I got the Instagram DMs of him telling me that he is hearing people say that I am talking bad about him and that I am spreading rumors. I had no rumors to spread, and I wanted nothing to do with him after everything he did, it was all a story that someone made up. Instead of feeding into him I just blocked him, now this is where he really started to put on shows.

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It was the end of the school day, I decided to walk out a different door hoping that I could avoid Noah for the day. I was wrong because I actually got stopped at the crosswalk and his truck was stopped right in front of me. He was laughing at me and pointing at the new girlfriend in his truck with him, I just kept walking and then he rolled down his window and started yelling at me calling me names and telling me to "keep his name out of my mouth." All I could do was pretend like I was unbothered, this is when my parents started to get tired of the stories, I was telling them and they told me to continue acting like I don't care and if he kept on, they would have to notify the school about it all. His actions just kept getting worse, he'd say mean things about me all day every day. One morning I ended up turning onto a road on the way to school and being right behind Noah. He noticed I was behind him and started to drive stupidly and swerving and randomly hitting his breaks. I was furious! Who was that stupid? Later that day during school he walked past me giving me a dirty, and I pushed his bookbag with my elbow.

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This happened after my third-class period, and I was on the way to my last class. Noah didn't say anything which I thought was weird of him, but I wasn't complaining about it either. I had told one of my good friends about it in my last class and she told me that I probably shouldn't have done that, but it was nothing compared to what he had been doing for months. After the bell rang, indicating class was over, I walked out to the parking lot with that same friend and had almost forgot about what even happened before class. As soon as we got out the door I look and see Noah waiting outside for me with his friends. Me and the friend I was with, Piper, turned and looked at each other in shock. As soon as Noah saw me, he started to yell and cuss me out for what happened, and I was so embarrassed. It made me so angry that I let my emotions get the best of me and I argued back. This was the final straw for me, I told my parents, and they said that they would call the school and tell them what was happening.

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After the big argument, Noah stopped really paying me any attention. I was more focused on my exams than anything else and my parents decided to not tell the school anything because we only had a few days of school left. I was being left alone now anyways so it didn't matter too much anymore. That was until the second to last day of school, when our neighbor informs us that some guys did a burnout in front of my house. We looked on our cameras outside of the house and noticed that it was Noah's friends. Now Noah wasn't messing with me but still sent his friend to come do this out of the blue.

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The beginning of my summer after Junior year felt like breathing in fresh air for the first time. I didn't have to deal with the anxiety of getting bullied by my ex-boyfriend every day. Or so I thought. After about a month of nothing, I notice I had a notification on Snapchat that Noah was trying to friend request me. I denied it because I was tired of the constant disrespect. He created 4 new accounts and tried adding me back on snapchat with each one. I chose to block every account and even blocked his actual contact on my phone and every social media platform I had him on. I was finally done. I lost two very important people in my life, but they taught me what to allow in my life and what to let go of. They taught me so many values and morals that I severely needed. They taught me to be okay on my own.

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I can now feel comfortable being myself. I'm okay with only allowing what I am okay with in my life, I am not scared to let go of what is not doing me any good. I have learned how to have respect for myself. I learned what kind of people Noah and Abby truly were, the hard way but the only way I was able to understand it.