Friendship Cause Heartbreaks Too

Chapter - 7

People who you eat with, sit with, talk with, laugh with, hang out with,

Basically, people who you live with, affect you in ways you can't even believe.

They change you in many ways. They mould you into a type of person, they are.
Everything changes.

Your way of eating,
Your way of talking,
Your way of understanding,
Your way of thinking,
Your way of perspective towards someone/something.

Gradually but Definitely!

Yes, you're right. It happened with me.
My science teacher, Ms. Polly, used to warn Nate about it.
Nate was a good student with a great potential. If he wanted, he could be the topper.

But his company was... Not that nice. It was always pushing him down.

But along with him, she used to warn everybody else too.

I never understood what she was trying to say.

All she would say was, "Nate, Company matters. For everybody else too."

She wouldn't explain it. She thought we were smart enough to get it on our own. And maybe some of us were.
We were 8th grade students, after all.

But I wasn't.

I wasn't growing. Mentally.
It was like I was so busy with keeping up the friendship with Vickie, and not having any fight or any issue, that I forgot about myself.

All I did was, keep Vickie close to me and protect our friendship. And while doing so, I started changing.

It's said, "When someone gives you too much importance, you take them for granted. Their value lessens in your life. The more you get, the more you want."

I think that's exactly what happened with Vickie. I gave her too much importance, more than myself.
That made her take me for granted and value me less day by day.

And she craved for more attention. She started believing I would do anything and so she began throwing more and more tantrums.

And I did put up with everything she did.

So, gradually, intentionally or unintentionally I don't know, she controlled me, indirectly.

Her action would decide my reaction. She probably got used to the same reaction she received every time.
Of being treated as the superior, as the most important person, as if her words are the law!

And I never tried to take that control back. I just kept going. And probably that was why, I wasn't growing, mentally.

My maturity, my thinking, my thoughts, and other mental qualities.

I was solely focused on Vickie and our friendship.

So, when in a 'truth and dare' games, We asked Sarah to tell the truth about what she doesn't like in every one,

She told everybody's, but when it was mine and Vickie's turn, she was quite hesitant. And she just said, "Don't get hyper or mad or angry on little things"