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are we ready to stop being teenagers or nah , i’m definitely not ready bro , we have all officially reached unc status collectively 🫩🥀

Okay so this situation is slightly confusing to even me so if as a reader you find some things confusing… me too gang me too.

Anyways there is this boy let’s call him Fruity. Fruity and I have known each other a long time (since Kindergarten) but we aren’t necessary close, we have never been very close friends but we’ve always known each other and have had over lapping circles.

In 9th grade some of my ex best friends (high emphasize on the fact I don’t talk to those girls anymore) really wanted me to end up with Fruity cause he was one of my friend’s boyfriend’s best friend’s cousin (ik yikes). At that point we’re only 15 so when those two friends started ignoring me cause they all had bfs I just wanted us to be normal friends again and the only way I’d get their attention is by talking about Fruity and acting like I was into him (I was not but I was desperate to have my friends back). Nevertheless, I ended up having this big fight with the girls and we split ways, I completely dumped the idea of Fruity with them.

One day I was talking with this other mutual friend who brought up Fruity and went on about how the whole school thought me and him would look good together, then I explained what had happened and that I didn’t actually like him. That was the end of it. Him and I were never brought up ever again after that.

Then recently, November 2025, there was this school event and me and Fruity were working together to prepare for it. Nothing special but we did get closer friendship wise and were pretty chill. Now one day to prepare for this event, the both of us along with some other friends were walking to this location in the evening. I also happened to be a little sick that day but I did not tell anybody. As everyone is walking I fall behind cause I was walking slow, that’s quite normal even when I’m not sick, I just walk slow and am always left behind. Suddenly I look to my left and Fruity is right beside me, I search for some of our other friends and they’re nowhere to be seen.

It’s just me and him walking behind everyone. I have him plenty of chances to go in front of me or to join others but he stayed by my side. It was sort of awkward cause we didn’t speak a single word, he just walked with me. (Okay looking back it was nice of him but at the moment I was confused as hell).

In the end the both of us reach the location last and everyone else sees this and immediately jumps to conclusions. Our friends start teasing us but neither me or him give them any answers. It does get annoying after a bit and I turn the others down but Fruity doesn’t say anything. We finish our work and we’re gonna walk back and even during that, as everyone else went ahead of us Fruity stayed back with me. I wanted to ask him but just didn’t and it was a silent walk again.

After going back home people slightly teased us again for bit but we both ignored it. Then the next day at school intake four other friends why did they disappear yesterday and she looks at me says, “We were just giving the two of you some privacy.” Now I was caught completely off guard. I’m not stupid and knew exactly what she meant but got defensive and just pretended not to understand. This friend also goes ahead to add, “You two look good together maybe you should give it a try.” At this point the alarms are blaring in my head, I’m getting ptsd and just don’t know how to react.

Also some context it hadn’t even been 2 weeks since I broke up with my previous boyfriend and this friend knew that. So I was even more weirded out.

I simply replied to her with a “I’ll just pretend I didn’t hear that.” Now I don’t know what or if she said something to Fruity or not cause after that day he completely flipped on me. Started being obnoxiously rude and annoying and it was getting impossible to work with him but I had no other choice and tried my best even though he was purposefully making my life harder by the minute. We would break into huge arguments and each of our teammates also started beefing with one another. It was pure mess. Still we survived the event.

A few days after the event, the same girl from before drops pictures of me and Fruity working together very closely (this was during the fighting and disrespecting season). The picture was first of all taken without my knowledge and shared in a gc with 80 people. Everyone there was having a field day with it; they made stickers and kept on spamming it and went on about shipping us and calling us mom and dad. It was extremely uncomfortable cause we hated each other’s guts now. In the middle of this embarrassment Fruity an absolute a-hole. Throws more insults at me instead of the ones sharing it and leaves the gc and leaves me to deal with it. I was mad beyond words but I still typed out “Guys plz stop this, it wasn’t right to not only click pictures but also share it without my knowledge.”

I had all this rage and no one to direct it towards and people never forget I had to hear about THE WHOLE SCHOOL spreading enemies to lovers trope about the two of us till the last two months of graduation.

I think he was trying to approach me that day but not because he didn’t want to but cause his friends just wanted to set me up with him. Or he did like me and his friends knew and were trying to get more out of me to figure out if I liked him too or not. And took my no reaction as rejection and got offended and blew it all up. I just to this day don’t understand what he was thinking and why he did that and why he switched up.

Maybe just maybe if he had given me some more time, I would’ve reciprocated but from his behavior I think I dodged a bullet. I don’t know. I still sometimes wish he tried a bit more even though I hate his guts. What do you call this?