Toxic Friend Story Time

The following stories might cause something to stir inside them. I assure you that the scenes that I'm going to tell you are 100% true and was the main cause of my trust issues and extreme timidness and shyness. I'm finally recovering from what happened in the Spring of 2017 on my 5th grade year of school. I hope you enjoy and are able to find something in this crap that I pulled together on a small Microsoft Word Doc that I actually had to use because I kept copying the original statement in attempt to paste the other statement that I spent an hour writing. The names are going to be changed for reasons. I hope you enjoy.

March, 2017, 5th Grade

Everything was amazing. I had an amazing Christmas, getting a rabbit for me and my brother, that we decided to name Snowy and Stormy. I had amazing friends at the moment and my teacher was one of the best I've had. There was one thing that stood out to me though. My friend. Emerald. She always wanted to prioritize her first, and even wanted me to start hanging out with her more than my first friend, Cortney. It was really confusing. I asked her about it but she brushed it off, saying something like "I can't believe you don't want to hang out with me." I felt guilted into spending more time with her and even getting close enough that we actually drank the same bottle of mountain dew diet. We even started doing a Funimate and Musically accounts together and followed, watched, and collabed with each other respectably. When I got my rabbits, though, she completely changed her tactics, because me, being a sensitive animal lover, didn't want my rabbits to die while I was away. It was fine until it wasn't. I checked on them a few times during the day, an hour, to, thirty minutes, to twenty minutes, to ten. It became a constant cycle that I had to check on these beautiful fluff balls every ten minutes, because we live in a very hot and dry area. I didn't want them to die from heatstroke. Emerald, became enraged with the situation that we got in, which was understandable, and during a very awesome Harry Potter movie, she snuck into my lot, found the rabbit cage, opened it up, and attempted to release them into the wild. Further evidence shows that her brother, Tin, was witnessing the act and even said that she was trying to kill them, but couldn't. Since the movie ended so late, and this was before I even had sleeping problems, I was exhausted and went to bed immediately. "So, I don't check on the rabbits for the first time," I thought, "so what?" Foreshadowing is a b* ain't it. In the morning, I woke up really late and didn't have time to check on them so I just rushed to school. I excitedly told Cortney about the Harry Potter movie and the rest of the school day was awesome. Then the trip home happened. Emerald and I sit together on a bus. It was a really great bus, even though it was really small. I told Emerald about the movie I watched and she responded, "Hey... Can I come with you to see your rabbits today?" Me, thinking it was just her wanting to see them, responded, "Sure!" while she had a very solemn look on her face. When we got to my house, which is literally the same stop, just a few yards apart from our houses, I led her to the cage and noticed that they weren't out by the gate, which is very out of character for them. I brushed it off saying, "They're probably just hiding," as I was holding the top of the cage, "let me open it so you can see them." I opened the gate and saw that they weren't there. By then, I was freaking out because I literally thought that they were just hiding. Emerald, still having the solemn look on her face, mumbled something about "I'll go home to see if I can find them, and then I'll get my bike to look for them, because I saw them last night while I was riding my bike" and hurried home. I looked all around my lot, trying to find where they are, and failed miserably. I then started thinking, "what if Emerald took them to her house and locked them up into a cage that she just magically has," and calmed myself down enough to walk up there and check. When Emerald opened the door I asked, "hey, did you find them yet?" which she responded a quick, "no, but I'll come to your house to see if we can find them there," while having a guilty look on her face, which I still thought nothing of. We went back to my house and searched for them there, all while Emerald wasn't searching hard enough. I then said, "I'm going to call my dad," and walked to grab my iPad that I used for the Funimate and Musically stuff I said earlier. I called him and Emerald was like, "Hey let me tell you something, but you have to promise to not tell your dad," I quickly agreed and she told me, "So uh... I lied when I said I saw your rabbits while riding in the dirt hills, because I actually took them and put them there." Overrun with anger, I said, "What? Why would you not tell me that you did that and why would you not tell me to tell my dad!?" as I reached for my iPad to turn off mute. I quickly turned off mute and said, "Dad! Emerald put them in the dirt hills!" Emerald left immediately after that. When my dad came home, my dad, my brother, Tin, and I all went to go searching for the rabbits in the dirt hills. We searched for a while and came up empty for a long time, until Buddy, my brother, saw his rabbit in the collection of rocks, surrounding the area that we were in. A thing to note about the vegetation about the dirt hills, is that there are barely any green plants there, which means the rabbits would not survive out there at all, so it's a miracle that we found both of them in the end. We quickly put Stormy back in the cage. That was also when Tin gave us the knowledge that Emerald tried to kill the rabbits. My family was done with searching because it was getting dark, so I sadly made my way back to our house, holding Stormy. After I put him in his cage, I literally hugged him and said in a very sad, tearful, voice, "I'm so sorry Stormy! I'm so sorry we couldn't find her today... I love you so much..." and put him back into the cage, literally looking at him with tears in my eyes for the longest time. I went to my room, changed into my pajamas, and started watching YouTube because I had nothing else to do. I had no energy to do anything, because I just gave up thinking that Snowy was still alive. Stormy has the claws and we assumed that Snowy was pregnant so it's just not a good situation for her to be in. Around 8 or 9, there was a phone call from Emerald's mother. She said they found Snowy! Emerald must have cracked and told her mother what happened, and they actually managed to find the snow-colored albino in the middle of night under a rock. They needed help getting her out so me and my mother spun to action, grabbing her favorite treat, pieces of wheat hay, and a portable cage to get her in. We got to the area of Snowy and we managed to get her into the cage. Everything was okay again, aside from Emerald. But that wasn't the last thing that happened. I stopped riding the bus with her and started walking home after that. I thought it would be better that way so I don't have to talk to her. So, when you're in a toxic relationship, it is super hard to break away, especially if you don't tell anyone what you're going though and how it's affecting your life, relationships, and day to day activities. It is so important that you tell someone what you're going through, even though it may seem scary or unimportant, because if you tell someone you really trust, there is a very high possibility that if they care about you, they will help you. I didn't tell my parents about these next few parts, because, I was too scared to approach them. It cost me a lot of pain throughout my development period and gave me trust issues, and constant nightmares about loosing my rabbits to her again.