Iām hoping this gets the last of it out of my system and I can forget anything ever happened. That would be nice. I donāt want his shadow to haunt me every time I swordfight or climb, and honestly I think Iām at the end. Every once in a while I have a moment of weakness and cry all over again. I wish we could go back to being friends, I wish we could look each other in the eye again, I wish that every time I saw his car on the way to work that it didnāt break me, and that heād come back. I wish he didnāt lie. I wish he wasnāt so cruel. I wish that this horrible pattern of behaviour would break who knows, maybe he wouldnāt be the most hated man in the climbing gym. I want this to be out of my system. And heās nearly gone from my head. Nearly.
Using this like a diary at this point and honestly, I have been the entire time anyway. For some incredibly fun context for anyone who wishes to hear it, the collection of Amazing Devil art was mostly inspired by the emotional and complex relationship I had with a close friend, before I found out he was just manipulating me until he got what he wanted, and then discarded me after use. That was rough. Really rough. Itās been about month since I found everything out. His old friends have taken me under their wing and honestly I wouldnāt have gotten out of it as unscathed as I have without them. Iām insanely grateful, and while I fear my friendship with them is entirely rooted in their utter hate for him, paired with the way that he treated me, I desperately hope the friendships Iāve made can transcend him. Turns out itās really easy to make friends at rock-climbing when the most hated man there isnāt hovering over your shoulder. Who would have thought.
I canāt believe I got to have the classic āgirl has to come to terms with evil manipulative boyfriendā experience without ever actually having a boyfriend or being a girl. Not to be dramatic but Sabrina Carpenterās new āManās Best Friendā Album has been so oddly specific to this entire experience, like ok girl. Go off. Call me officially a fan.
I guess I get to go back to being the queer bitch I always was. Thatās a nice feeling. Also massive shout out to my sword fighting teacher for explaining to me that I was actually being treated really poorly. Made me feel like I wasnāt going crazy. An absolute legend.