Strangers

Throw Back

WARNING LONG CHAPTER!
    Now you might be wondering who the heck is Victor. Well it's hard to explain, and Ava could tell you that too. She had to sit through the story which is all over the place honestly. To begin with as you can tell Ava is not to fond of him. I am fond of him but I am not at the same time, that right there is the hard part of this story. I don't know how I feel about him, you can decide for yourself how you feel about him.                        
    I met Victor in 7th grade, when he was in 8th. The reason I didn't meet him 6th grade was because I was the baby of the little friend group everyone has, and I was very protected of everything and everyone by the only guy in our friend group, Max. Don't get me wrong I loved that Max did this, he was my best friend and I trusted him. But by the end of 6th grade I hated that he didn't really let me get to know other people. So instead of confronting Max about it, I just left the friend group completely, you know classic Mili. Then the summer between 6th and 7th grade came, and I was basically friendless. seventh grade began and I didn't have to see any of my old friends. I got new classes with kids I hadn't talked to before and the fresh start I wanted was there.
Before first period everyone at my school had to sit in the halls. The school was sectioned off into 3 main hallways, one for each grade. The 8th grade hallway is on the complete other side of the school, kind of secluded from the rest of the school. The 7th grade hallway was basically the middle of the school. At that school there wasn't enough teachers, so some of them would teach different grade levels. Because of this a few kids had to move from one hallway to another. First period that year I had math in the 7th grade hallway and then right after I had P.E. with some friends I had met in choir in 6th grade. I would stand in the hallway and wait for my friends everyday after class, and Victor's best friend had class next to my first period because that teacher taught 8th grade math.
You're probably like okay but this has nothing to do with Victor, but it's does. Victor and his best friend looked so alike then. I had seen them separately but never together. In those times that I had seen them separately I had heard someone say Victor's name. And bam it stook. I guess you could say I originally like his best friend but meh not really. I kept seeing his friend after first period everyday and one day one of my friends noticed that I always looked at him and they asked if I even knew his name. Of course I didn't, but I didn't know that. So I just said " I think , I swear his name is Victor." My friends are always more outgoing than me and that friend was way outgoing and she straight up asked the teacher for his name. Like girl what the actual heck. She came back and said that his name was not Victor, his name was Joel. After that I brushed it off and that was that.
At least I thought. One day when I was in the 8th grade hallway for English, I met the actual Victor. I hated working in the actual classroom and always asked to work in the hallway. Well I was reading in the hallway and I could hear the 8th Graders from across the hall. Then it got quiet and the door opened, and there is yours truly being escorted to the hall by his teacher. The teacher said that he was sitting in the hallway for the rest of class. Lucky for me so was I. From there we talked and exchanged numbers. We were kind of inseparable for the rest of the school year. Then school was over and he went to high school and I stayed in middle school.
Fast Forward to my freshman year of high school. When I saw him on the first day again after not talking for so long, it was like we never stopped talking. But neither of us asked what happened while we didn't talk. This time around everything was different, we weren't acting like friends, were acting like more than that, and that is where everything started.
Because neither of asked what happened when we didn't talk, he didn't tell me he had a relationship that didn't end well, and I didn't tell him I rekindled my friendship with Max. His ex started mad crap with me and Max was not so fond of Victor either. Which I later came to find out was because Max had a thing for me and he was jealous. Max said something to Victor about it, which pissed him off and he basically commanded me to never talk to Max again. I didn't. A couple months went by after this, when I found out that Victor had cheated on me with his ex. We broke up and didn't speak again.
I remained friends with Victor's friend group and became really close with his best friend, Joel. I didn't think much of it, but I should have. Victor always told him to watch me and to give him updates. I didn't know any of this until Joel said something about me being mad at Victor. "How am I gonna be mad at him if I haven't spoken to him! What did he do that is gonna make me mad?" I asked Joel. "I don't know, he said you were gonna be mad. He's always talking about you and what he's gonna do to get even for you breaking his heart or whatever." He got even by dating someone I considered a super close friend.
And this ladies and gentlemen is why I keep my circle small now. Everyone I loved stabbed me in the back. I've been afraid to date and talk to people ever since. Ava hates that Victor messed me up like that. He took advantage of what he had. I hate and love Victor. I can't not love him. He was my first love. Before all the drama it was actually a good relationship. Now I'm scared that Alex will do the same, that he'll hurt me by getting my hopes up only to leave, cheat, and get rid of my friends. But that I'll still like him even though he did it.