I think high school was very scarring for me. I didn’t have it bad if you looked at it from the outside in. I was liked. Wasn’t teased. Got invited to parties etc. But it was a hell on the inside. I still think about crap that happened years ago, especially this time of year.

I was betrayed by friends. One of them started calling a guy I liked and pretended to be me. He came up to me in the hallway with his girlfriend and asked me to stop. I was so humiliated. She could have said anything to him! That was so awful.

After that another friend betrayed me by telling my crush I was into him. I cut her off and never looked back. Refused to speak to her ever again.

This all sounds so silly to say out loud, but to this day I keep a very small circle of friends and have trust issues because of it. Being an only child - I had no sounding board or support network at home. Man that sucked.

Being an open book is one thing. Trusting someone with my secrets is a whole other ballgame. I keep that stuff locked up tight in an uncrackable safe surrounded by a moat and flesh eating creatures.