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Here& #39;s a thread about relationships and the advice I think anyone in high school, or anyone who just has relationship issues in general, NEEDS to hear. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the popcorn.
Here& #39;s a thread about relationships and the advice I think anyone in high school, or anyone who just has relationship issues in general, NEEDS to hear. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the popcorn.
Where do I even start with this storytime? So Im an 18 year old cishet male, I live in NYC, and I just graduated high school. In high school, a LOT of stuff happened that changed my life completely. But there is one relationship with a certain someone that left a MARK
For the sake of this thread, this person& #39;s name is gonna be Hinata Hyuga. Don& #39;t question the name choice, just GO with it. So Im Max/Blaze (idgaf what you call me), and its me and Hinata& #39;s first day at school. From the moment I saw her, I liked her, and its funny because...
... the first words I ever remember saying to her is "you look very familiar to me.....", although she remembers it as me saying "you need to get braces". In any event: I liked her from the beginning of high school and from our friendship. I just broke up with my middle school...
ex girlfriend, which i thought was TERRIBLE at the time, but the amount of pain THIS... SITUATION.... put me through is indescribable, but Im doing it now anyway. Back to the story, we were friends and that& #39;s how we started off.
I& #39;m a very shy guy, and have trouble making myself vulnerable, so I didn& #39;t directly tell her that I liked her, I would tell nobody when I was gonna tell her, but I planned to do it in my head, but I could never stop being pussy and just do it!
This part of the story is a lil fuzzy because Im going back 4 years in time, but Im pretty sure she heard from one of her friends, and a few other people I told that I liked her, that I liked her! And that kind of made things awkward between us.
So we would go through periods of being friends and not being friends. One day we would be really good, and the next day we& #39;ll be complete strangers. We make jokes about it now (or before since we& #39;re no longer friends), but it did set the stage for how our situation would go
One time, when the school had a massive fire, we had to relocate to another school for two weeks, and it was at the relocated school, we finally became friends again... officially. And we were pretty good until the summer, from my memory.
Mind you this is the summer going from freshman year to sophomore year, so our mindsets are changing rapidly, hormones are active, etc, ugh puberty. Anyway, I started to be more aloof about her because I was "with" someone at the beginning of the summer.
I would joke to her, because we were now friends, that "we& #39;re your mom, I& #39;m your dad, and you were our child" and you know she would go along with it. Now that I hear the other side of the story, I knew it bothered her that I seemed happy in a relationship with this person
So she was hurt that I was unavailable, but she didnt say anything about it and held it inside. Im not sure if she started to catch feelings for me around this time, but I know around late July, we were texting everyday for the two weeks prior, and then she BLOCKS ME FOR 2 WEEKS
I think only on snapchat and her imessage, which took me by surprise, because I thought we were cool! So Im like... okay shit... whatever. But then out of nowhere, once those two weeks are over, she hits me with the "can we talk about my bipolar ass 
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Anyway, we& #39;re friends now, and she claims to have wanted to tell me several times that she DID like me, but she didn& #39;t, and honestly, who knew what would happen if Hinata did. I wouldn& #39;t be telling you this story today. However, I didn& #39;t even consider that a possibility
So summer is over and this is our sophomore year in high school. I entered my first long term relationship that also changed my life in a HUGE way, but that& #39;s not the focus for this thread, and it was a pretty chill year. She found a boo thang, and so did I and it was lit.
We& #39;ve been friends this whole year, without any major issues affecting our friendship, and we were really close. Summer starts and then its over, both of us are broken up from our relationship, and now we both single and now we& #39;re Juniors in High School.
Its at this time I start developing, or might I say repressed, feelings for her again, and she decided to date a freshman, which made me feel a little jealous, because there was the thought: that could be me with her instead of him one day.
So some internal resentment and frustration started to fester inside of me for not being that person that was with Hinata. Im like Naruto: I will stop at NOTHING to be hokage. Thats always been my attitude in life, even in relationships.
According to my understanding of what she said, she had a few thoughts about how I would treat her in a relationship in comparison to how her current man (he& #39;s a FRESHMAN, aka a boy). Im not sure if she developed feelings for me at this time, I genuinely don& #39;t know,
but from my understanding, some feelings sparked up briefly but she dismissed them. However, my feelings have persisted and have ALWAYS been there, no matter what relationship I was in: I still wanted Hinata.
She was always in the back of my mind, and even though I was with other people, who I genuinely did love: she was deep in my subconscious because from the moment I met her I just knew there was gonna be a STORY to tell between us.
Now we& #39;re in the summer of my Junior year, and I& #39;ve kept my feelings for her inside ALL this time and what happens when you bottle up how you feel: the bottle eventually pops. To put some context: by this point she has no interest in me and we kind of didnt talk all summer
I cant remember if we werent cool, or if we just didnt text out of there nothing to text about, but the point is: there wasnt any communication. Dont think this thread is about me bashing her because a LOT of this is my fault too, but I hit her up out of nowhere with a HUGE ass
paragraph telling her how I feel about her, my future I see, and etc etc etc (basically me being a HUGE simp https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ€Ą" title="Clown face" aria-label="Emoji: Clown face">) and she does politely say she doesnt feel the same way or could ever see us being more than friends, etc, and just crushing my 16 yr old heart.
Honestly, I was devastated and heartbroken, but couldnât shed one tear. Maybe back then I knew that me and her wouldnât be together, but she finally crushed my dream and forced me to confront that delusion I entrapped myself in.
But this now our senior year, we make up as friends, and now we start Senior year on a high note! Weâre doing great. Im KINDAAAA having this thing with another girl at this point in my senior year and
I think this is gonna be my friends, and I COMPLETELY fall for her. Hinata thinks Im occupied with this new girl now because Im focused on her and fell for her, and I was, but that isnât the case, according to the events that unfolded.
Obviously, Im not good with women, I never had a dad growing up, Im an only child, and a lot of kids didnât like me bc I was ugly, loud, and obnoxious LOLLLLLLL, but I also saw divorce, verbal abuse, and physical abuse as a child which set the stage for how my unconscious
would view relationships in the world. Not a very healthy mindset to ingrain to a growing and developing style, but this is what I dealt with. So its like April of 2019, and me and the girl I had a situation with are no longer friends and we wonât even speak/look at each other.
Theres a lot of tension between us still, but we both agreed to stop fighting. Hinata starts to seem a little more comfortable with interacting with me, physically and verbally. She would lean on me when we were going home, holding my hand, yk all the touchy shit girls do
But then she would also SAY stuff like âi think we were married in a past lifeâ, âwe would be a cute couple togetherâ, âmax looks so cute todayâ which caught me off guard because Im likeâŠâŠ who just says that out of the ordinary and out of nowhere. So I naturally start to
develop feelings because what I perceived was her hinting that she likes me. Of course tho, we both didnât talk about it, and in fact I did take a mile when she give me an inch. In retrospect, I was very much in the wrong in this situation, but
but Im not saying what she did was right either. I enabled this behavior of being flirty with me because this is also how I naturally behave as well. Weâre both Gemini Risings LMFAOOOOOOOOOO. Anyway⊠fast forward to June and my prom.
Her and her other friend were my prom dates because we were all friends and have been for the past 4 years, so fuck it, lets do it together. I remember thinking she looked so beautiful during prom and I said, fuck it, Im telling her how I feel. This happened about a day or two
after our prom, and it doesnât go well. We have starting, respectful, discussion about how I feel, how she feels, and how she still didnât feel the same way. Naturally Im like, wtf how, you did x, y, and z, and if my math is correct that equals = YOU LIKE MEEEEEEE.
But her argument was that she felt comfortable to do that stuff around me and that Im reading too much into it, and that she wonât take responsibility for me calling her flirty. So we have a fight and then we dont talk to each other at all.
This is the part of the school year where its between Prom and Graduation, and its like 2 weeks of just no school, and only test, so you dont really come into contact with them often, so you just dont speak. That was us.
But ultimately, we are not speaking, but then comes graduation. Things were definitely weird because we had to see each others families while still not being cool with each other, and it all around being an emotional moment: it bad timing to be coming face to face and interacting
, pretending like everything is okay when we both know its not. We all had a teacher that taught us for 3 years straight English, when the norm is you have a different english teacher each year, so we were really able to just develop an amazing bond.
And she did have students who earned her trust, and build a connection with. So she was getting married soon, and she wanted to invite us to her wedding because we always teased her about âwhereâs our invitation to the wedding ms.???â.
And we were all honored because gaining the respect of this teacher is a BADGE OF HONOR. But the only issue is that we had to wait until we graduated for us to be able to go to her wedding, otherwise it would be illegal. So we graduated, and then she sent us the invite,
and all was good! We get to the day of the wedding and Hinataâs mom drives us all to the venue, and we have a good time. We get to be dressed up and see our FAVORITE teacher that put us through hell and back academically but still supporting us and being funny with us having
something sheâs dreamed of her whole life: we had to stan her and be happy for her. Wedding is going on, everyones have a good time, we are all great for her. However for me and Hinata: the 5th great ninja war was initiated. There was a LOT of tension in the air, and you could
feel it. Hinata and one of my âFRIENDSâ are talking at this point in time, and they were sitting together and being together the whole time during the wedding: and I BECAME JEALOUS.
Im a little older, so Im a little more intelligent in the world, and less naive, so the internal frustration and anger that I had before in junior year is a lot deeper, more intense, and absolutely gruesome. Once we leave the venue, we all get into separate vehicles, because
our ex-teacher was able to get us rides home, one for the brooklyn/queens kids, Hinata, and one for the Manhattan/Bronx Kids, me. So Im sitting in the van, and everyone is having fun and talking (being loud), Im sitting there depressed and sad because I saw the girl I wanted for
the past 4 years with someone else, making me feel like I failed and unsuccessful after all the effort Iâve put to try to make her mine. And to make things worse: my friend, weâll call him Minato, Minato was in the same situation as me with another girl in our friend group, and
we both liked them for all of high school, but HE was able to win her heart, but I wasnât able to win Hinataâs heart. I was happy for them, but my resentment for myself and disappointment in myself grew even darker, and the drive to win her heart intensified. I text Hinata that
I love her, etc, and something really nonchalant. I get home, and I had a few drinks after I left the venue, and I text her that I like her etc. And she knows Im drunk, and Im not a drinker like THAT but she knows and she says âwe need to have a serious conversation in the mornin
And Im like âfair enoughâ. However, the guy she was talking to that was also my âFRIENDâ, lets call him Sai, Sai TEXT ME ON SOME SHIT.
