My Life: Owen Young

The Past

It all starts in November 2014. It was my third year at Fort Frye High School. I had many people I called my friends, but there was one boy I could safely call my best friend. Liam Thompson. We had been doing Cross Country together for a very long time and I confided in him. We met in Art Class and bonded intensely. To say I loved him was an understatement. People knew that we were a packaged deal. Very close to where we would even mimic each other's personality to create... A new one.
While this friendship with Liam was very existent, I was also in the relationship that meant absolutely everything to me. Her name was Aaliyah Riddle. We had met and began dating in the early days of 7th grade, not long after I had gotten there from another schooling district. We were together for a good (yet often painful) two and a half years. She was where the sun rose and set in my eyes. There was absolutely nothing I wouldn't have done for her. She was my all... She was often very sweet, yet at the same time often very jealous, controlling, mentally abusive, and manipulative. She would criticize my most every aspect of my personality to meet her standards for the perfect guy for her and her family. Being blinded by love, I saw none of this. It was only my surrounding friends who saw this and often tried to enlighten me with the cold truth of my mental state when it came to this girl.
Needless to say, Liam Thompson and Aaliyah Riddle were my entire life. They always got along with each other as I wanted them too. We often had moments of laughter and joy. Liam was there for me through times of Aaliyah talking to other guys, sending them sexual pictures, or flirting with them. None of this seemed to bother me in my sightless state of what I thought to be love. I thought I had it all, the friend, the girl, the warmth...