It was Always You

Introduction

     Summer had ended and the dry desert heat started to turn into a refreshing cool breeze, it was finally fall Stephanie's favorite season. She had just ended a relationship with her ex boyfriend Blake and she couldn't help but feel relief. They had been together for a year, a long dreadful year. Like any relationship it had started off great, from cute dates to thoughtful gift. But the real Blake didn't show until three months later. Slowly Stephanie started to see red flags, from narcissistic behaviors to him being hypocritical, but like most girls she ignored this. Blake just so happened to be her first relationship so she didn't know any better. 

     Nine months had passes and the manipulation started, luckily Stephanie did not fall for his antics. You see Stephanie was stubborn she would not do anything she did not want to do which made Blake angry. Since his manipulation would not work on her he desperately tried to control her and for a while she let herself be controlled, or so he thought. He would try to control things like, what music she could listen to to where she could go. Because of this Stephanie started to become reserved and distant from her friends and even her family. It took a conversation with her mom to finally see that what she had with this guy was not love but instead her being controlled. 

     She knew she had to get out but it had to be his idea. The time finally came when he wanted to break up, little did she know it was another way to try to control her but she had had enough of him. Once he saw that she was not going to get back with him he desperately tried to get her back by saying "I was just kidding about breaking up. I was only saying this so you would appreciate me and so that you could remember that you could loose me." After she had heard those words come out of his mouth she could not help but feel disgusted. You see she knew Blake was narcissistic, hypocritical, manipulative, and controlling but this was the first time she saw that he thought he wasn't doing anything wrong. He thought this was normal which made her just detest him even more and she was overfilled with joy that she was out of that relationship.