#bestfriendbackstab

Hey everyone, it's me still haunted by those school days that turned from golden to heartbreaking memories. If you've ever had a "best friend" trash your skin, your heart, and your whole vibe to climb her own ladder, this is for you.I'm finally ready to unpack the backstab from my so-called best friend that changed everything.

We were inseparable from Class 6 onward, two giggling girls running through the school corridors . She was my partner-in-crime for skipping boring classes, my shoulder to cry during my sad times, the one who'd share her tiffin when mine I don't like mine. Recess was our favourite swapping secrets while sitting in the playground, talking about our favourite actor, and promising to be best friends forever. I trusted her with it all: my insecurities about having a dark skin tone . She knew my soul.

Until, when we were in class 9. One afternoon when I returned from the break I heard her talking trash about my dark skin tone like "how dark skin she has" and trashing my character. I was dumbfounded to even confront her at that time and had to control my tears . At the end of the day I confronted her asking why she talked about me but all I got was her saying "I pretended to be your friend to use you but now I don't need you anymore". That day I understood why people talk about how friendship heartbreak is more painful than love heartbreak.Three years of trust and loyalty gone. I distanced from all the common friends we had and I was lonely, no friends till I completed class 12 to protect myself.

At school I may have been lonely but my home was my safe heaven. I had 2 important reasons to overcome the heartbreak. One being my family's constant support and reminding me I am beautiful the way I am and the other is BTS(kpop group) songs of self love .

Years later, post-boards, the sting lingers.But school heartbreak taught me: true friends fight with you, not against. I'm still healing ,new friends in college, learning to trust again and open my heart.