An old letter written to an old friend. saying all the things left unsaid. distressed and ready to die at the time, maybe youll read it now.
I met you when I was 12 years old. It was 2020 I believe, and I was still in 6th grade. I was so bored and sad I lost all of my friends from covid restrictions that I redownloaded drawcast. I remember following you on sammich, then I think you went inactive, and now I donāt remember if that exactly was your username on drawcast, but I remember that was the name u went by. i remember also before you went inactive, I said that word, that we would always joke about being our first interaction, āpewdiepie.ā Then, after weeks, maybe even months of inactivity from you, you posted a picture. And the even funnier thing is, I remember exactly what the picture was. A blurry photo of you screaming at the camera, with the caption āfollow me at @j30bxx5 idiotsā so I did. Eventually you followed me back.
I remember when I was dating my friend Kaiyo and I was only dating them for around 2 or so weeks, and then you ended up breaking up with max. I remember how messy that was, and I remember how violent and angry you were. I remember when you threatened to cut Femās head off, and then we got messages for months afterwards talking about how horrible you were and how horrible I was for condoning your behavior. i also remember how right before I broke up with Kaiyo that Max texted me after I had posted a drawing of us holding hands, telling me to breakup with her before going for you and expressing my love for you because he didnāt want me to hurt her. So I did.
I didnāt get with you for a while afterwards, but I remember how hard we would flirt, and how openly we would. And I remember the moment I knew you liked me, it was when you drew the drawing of you hugging a pillow all flustered with hearts around you with the song āthe world is ending lets make outā and I remember hoping that it was about me. And then I remember someone asking us āare you guys datingā and you said āI dont know are we?ā And I said ādo you want to?ā And you said āsureā and thatās how it all started. I was really happy someone cared about me. I was happy I was wanted after being cast away for so so so long.
When I started to write this letter, I wanted to convey a story to you, show things how I remembered them from my perspective. Im not sure I want to do that anymore. But not necessarily because I donāt want to, itās because I donāt remember. You used to tell me your fears that your trauma made you forget, that there was something down in your soul, something so evil and distressing that your brains blanketed it with forgetfulness. Thatās what my brain has done to you. I get flashes of memories, stories my brain decides to grace me with, although they arenāt very comforting. But I donāt have a timeline. Something I laugh about it how I used to lie about your age, saying that you were a year younger than you truly were, which is very funny now because that lie still affects me now. I donāt remember what age you really were sometimes, I confuse myself! Itās funny how we can create false memories from such small things. I lied for maybe a year and that completely overrode my brain with what was really true.
i could never get a bat tattoo. your mark would be on me forever
i know if i knew u in person that you wouldve hit me and that makes me the saddest out of everything
i took a break from writing this letter for a while cuz i felt better about myself, but im getting bad again. im suicidal again and today is your birthday! im suicidal. and it is your birthday. youre 20, those are big numbers, you know? and this year i turn 18, and thats when i was planning on moving in with you, can u believe that was ever the plan? that seems like ages ago now, doesnt it. anyways, im 17, youre 20. i dont know how those numbers sat right with us. i dont know how any of it sat right. well, regardless, i hope you have a good birthday doing whatever it is you do now