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hen I was a wee little child, I had quite being friends when she asked me to have recess with
a fulfilling childhood. I believed then her one day. We became best friends soon after that.
Wthat I had a model family like the ones But at one point, I started to regret it.
you read about in textbooks. We flew kites and went
on fishing trips with our family friends. I travelled We had a toxic friendship. She was always
a lot in my early years as well. My family would depressed because of her family situation. She was
go on trips yearly. We went to Thailand, Australia, wealthy but her parents never gave her attention or
Singapore, and Hong Kong before I had even started love. She told me about her family situation and I
primary school. I used to brag about my family, how quietly listened. We talked on the phone every day
my dad treated me like his princess, how my mom for hours. It started to become a routine and she
wasn’t as strict as other moms and how my brother became dependant on me. She always said that she
loved me. Even though I had all that, I wasn’t a was grateful for me but I felt as though she had never
spoiled brat. I still did chores to earn what I wanted, cared about me.
I was still scolded when I did something wrong and
I never put myself first. So yes, I don’t believe I was All she talks about is herself and when I
spoilt then and I still believe so now. didn’t have a solution to her problem, I would be
blamed. She forbade me to have other best friends
When I was in primary school, I had quite while she would forget about my existence and
an interesting life there. There was just so much flaunt her apparent “BFFs” to everyone. She would
drama going on. Kids were slapping their friends get mad at me for having better grades than her and
for forgetting their birthdays, kids were unfriending would proceed to send me hate mail. Those years
each other for liking the same person and kids were were indeed horrible for me.
doing all sorts of things just to be popular. When
I was ten, I befriended a girl. She was one of the After we went to high school, she finally
popular kids and I hated her back then. We started realised how badly she treated me and had changed

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