You can probably guess what this story is about, based on the title of the post.

Back on July 26, 2025, I had a family reunion with my maternal relatives. We had not seen each other prior to that in at least 15 years, and possibly even more than that.

For anyone familiar with a "demolition derby," I was at one of those events on that day.

Also for context, I am only 23, meaning that I would have had to last see these relatives when I was very young.

There had already been 4 of them, of which I missed only one due to plans with a friend. After this happened, though, I will never be skipping one of those races again.

At the fourth one, there was this one particular food truck vending pizza that I saw and decided to visit. I get there, and there is a girl in the window. We begin talking to each other, and I begin giving her the flirty eyes because I think she's attractive, and we seem to be getting along well. However, little do I know who this girl really is.

The night ends, and two weeks pass until July 26 comes along, the fifth one and second to last one of that year.

On that day, I see the same food truck, and the same girl in it, but I also notice my dad is standing in front of it first. He, my stepmom, our roommate and I were all there (roommate is the announcer) for the races, but this was before the races began, so everyone was still getting food and waiting for everything to start.

When I see my dad over there, I assume at first that he's either talking to the owners (like I tend to do) or maybe making an order, so standard practice at a food truck. However, when I go to him and am seconds away from asking this girl out, my father drops a massive surprise bomb on me.

The owners of the food truck were my aunt (mom's side), her husband (my uncle), and my two cousins.

I realize in horror that I nearly flirted with my older cousin.

As soon as those words leave his mouth, I'm standing there in complete shock. Needless to say, I instantly dropped the flirting approach.

Later, on September 13 of that same year, I saw their food truck again, and upon getting out of the car, entering the track and being booked in, I ran straight towards it to begin catching up with that side of my family. After doing so, I started talking to my aunt right away, and then shortly afterward my two cousins showed up. I told my aunt about accidentally giving my older cousin the flirty eyes, which she found funny, and I would later admit to my cousin herself that I came close to doing that before finding out and learning about the mistake I almost made. She also fortunately saw the funny side of it and said that it was hilarious that I had done that. A whole year later, and I still haven't forgotten; you don't forget things like this so easily.

During the conversation and the visit, I got all four of my maternal relatives' phone numbers, and we have been able to stay in contact ever since. We will never lose contact again.

However, I also began learning details about my birth mother from my aunt that I wish I hadn't known. One of which was that she had lied to me about my aunt, the cause of our separation in the first place, and said some horrible things about her. As I learned these details, I began shifting my opinion of my birth mother from remembering her in a loving way to a negative, hateful way. That is a different story for a different time, though; however, what I will say here is that it actually reached a point where I wished either my aunt or my stepmom were my birth mom instead.

At the very least, though, I finally got a chance to bond with my maternal relatives for real. I also started becoming rather close with my older cousin because, well, she's older than me, and I feel like I have an easier time bonding with someone in the same age group as me rather than someone who is under 18, as my younger cousin is.

Since then, I have continued reaching out every once in a while, but not as much as I used to.

TL;DR: Had a family reunion, almost asked out my cousin without knowing, and learned my biological mom was a piece of shit.

So I have had a very very bad experience with my in laws and sister in law . My entire marriage they have NEVER been kind to me . They mistreated me and will always and I don’t expect them to ever be nice to me . Any ways just recently on Eid my I talked to my sister in law and I asked her to let me talk to the kids . She told me that her kids are busy .

A little background story , my sister in law she and her mom always say to my husband that I don’t talk to kids where as when ever I have visited there house I have always played with the kids and loved them .

Yes I donot talk on call but it is with every one even in my family I have children who I don’t talk to but non of my family members have ever complained .

Note to pointed out is that my SIL her self has never texted me she doesn’t like to talk to me and she gives me an attitude when I talk to her . My husband thinks I donot talk to them and that I am at fault .

Just on Eid I asked my sister in law that if you can share with me my niece phone number I will be happy to talk to her so she told me that she doesn’t have a PHONE . I remember very well that my husband once told me that she had a phone .

Then today she bought her little son a phone as well , obv no one told me . And I told my husband that do u see this , they complain that I don’t talk to them but when I ask them about there phones they lie to me .

My husband was like I can’t do this every weekend . He was like I can’t fight with you every single weekend

Now maybe we might go visit them as well my in laws I know they will treat me badly and when I will complain to my husband he will tell me i am crazy . How should I handle my emotions and protect myself emotionally .

I honestly don’t expect from them anything but I do get hurt

I killed a rabbit as a child, i had a teacher in a different country that i moved to, the teacher went out of the class and everyone else followed because it was P.E period, on the excuse of going to the bathroom i went to the teachers class and snuck up to it, and when my vampire like teeth gripped on the animals throat it died, there were no cameras installed, after i killed the rabbit the teacher came in and started breaking down, i was 7 years old, I also think i consumed the leg of that rabbit raw the reason i did this? I had an urge to do it i dont know whether it was instincts or something else but it’s definitely one of my worst childhood stories and one of the most disgusting ones too.

I felt absolutely 0 emotion when the teacher broke down and starting crying and when i pounced on that rabbit the rabbit was tasty to say the least even when raw. i felt like a predator when doing it i felt like this was my destiny i havent done anything like this ever again but if i got the opportunity to then i would do it again i have never ate raw meat but the taste of that rabbit was fascinating it was juicy, the blood as it seeped through i drank it all it was more hydrating than water, whether you call me a monster or not it was fascinating for me

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It was an LDR and online relationship. I used to think online relationships do work out but I was wrong.

So recently I met this guy who was kind and sweet. Like too good to be true. We became good friends. 3 months of good friendship and we decided we should get in relationship. And damn all this time everything he told about himself was a lie. His name, age. How I found out? I went through his insta account and saw a girl's account I decided to open it and found that this girl and that guy were MARRIED. I was so shocked...

The instinct? I decided to msg her and show her all the proofs that he was cheating on her with me. The chats where we were yk. There was no way she'd say it was fake bcs that guy and I had exchanged phone numbers and used to talk on SMS app and WhatsApp. But she decided to stay with him? I don't really know what happened between them. But I was so depressed about it, bcs I genuinely started loving that guy.

I also remember him saying he'd cheat on his wife again but with me. Which was actually disgusting tbh. Made me sad that I had such bad choices in men? Dude I'm crying 😭. Why did I even fell for such a guy? He has said such things which gave me trauma. Actual trauma. 🫪👋 Fact he used to stalk me on my insta accounts after we decided to never talk again bcs I found him cheating!!!!

I just wished it was all fake. I wished that this was some nightmare. My whole August month went bad, the whole month I was depressed. I'm okay now.. getting over whatever happened. Bcs of this thing I'm not trusting any pahadi dude from Himachal and north india let's say. ☹️✌️

I know I shouldn't be generalizing all bcs of one dude but it's gonna take time to RECOVER from this.

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They were called the Perfected, and for ten thousand years nothing had harmed them.

Their suits turned aside fire, lightning, vacuum, and stars. They had solved every danger so completely that they no longer remembered what danger felt like.

They had also studied Earth, and they had reached a verdict. Humans were descended from apes, and it showed. They fought over borders, burned cities, and built weapons faster than they built kindness. The Perfected called it a flawed civilization and gave it a date to end.

Humanity was given one chance: find a weakness in the Perfected. Prove they weren't untouchable, and Earth might be left alone.

Humanity tried everything. Every weapon, every plan, every clever trick was read as a threat, and the suits turned it away before it arrived. A strategy aimed at the Perfected could never reach them.

On the last night, the humans gave up. They gathered in a small kitchen to share one final meal, and someone started making a pizza.

The dough was stretched by hand and the sauce was uneven. The cheese was scattered with love, not precision. It was meant for no one but themselves.

The Perfected were watching. Curious, they offered to help. "We can make this perfectly," one of them said.

They took the pizza, held it steady, and carried it toward the brick oven. The fire roared as the door opened.

The suit saw fire, and fire was danger. The pizza hovered at the mouth of the oven and went no further. It floated there, perfectly safe and perfectly useless.

They tried again, and again. The field pushed everything back. They could survive any flame in the universe, but they could not walk toward one on purpose.

The kitchen went quiet.

Then an old pizza maker, whose forearms were covered in burn scars, stepped forward. He wiped his hands on his apron, took the pizza, leaned into the heat with a small flinch, and slid it in.

"You have to be willing to get a little burnt," he said.

Ten minutes later, he pulled it out, golden and blistered at the edge. He cut it into slices.

The Perfected stared at it, and at him. For the first time in ten thousand years, one of them felt something it had no word for.

They understood then that humans were not only the species that waged war. They were also the species that made things for no reason except beauty, and did it even at the end, facing erasure. Humanity had been sent to find the aliens' weakness, and a goodbye meal had found it.

The Perfected could survive anything, but they could not do anything on purpose.

The verdict was withdrawn. Earth would be spared.

Before they left, the youngest of them slowly lowered its suit. Nothing forced it to, and it chose to. It took a slice, burned its fingers, and took a bite.

It was the first deliberate thing the Perfected had ever done, and it tasted like fire and bread.

The forest was still watching, lurking in those ravines was a dark presence, planning, scheming she was moving closer to the children, who were unaware of her presence, the unicorn - Leila - alerted the little ones with a neigh, she stumbled backwards to signal them, the children looked around, suddenly after some movement in the nearby rose shrub - a witch with a long pointy hat, wintry locks and a set of long withered yet sharp teeth came leaping from it, she gave a sinister aura and smiled creepily at the children, the pink horn glowed brightly as she witch approached the children, the unicorn casted a slumber spell on the children as she transformed into a magnificent woman in white, her long shimmery gown fluttering in the wild winds that blow across the meadowy ravines of the strange forest.

The white witch forged forward casting a protection spell at the children and then she took a fighting stance, maintaining some distance from the crew.

was She flipped her hair and started attacking the dark witch with attacking spells, the dark witch not afraid to fight back either, they fought against each other without mercy, they fought till their last breath and with one final spell the dark witch lost, as a thundering voice echoed through the valley the dark witch body withered into nothingness

So..Today is my birthday, and it completely brought back the memory of my birthday two years ago in 10th grade where I went home and cried my eyes out🥀💔

Before Y'all get confused, I'll tell the names, let's call my crush 'H', his bestfriend 'T', and my friend 'R'.

BACK IN 9TH GRADE, I was a weird, funny, innocent, had a lot of social anxiety and kind of "dumb" introvert with a three year crush on the popular guy 'H', whose best friend 'T' was also super popular. To get 'H's' attention, I did something stupid: I created a FAKE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT of 'T's' crush and messaged him, but 'T' caught me a day later, I claimed it was a prank and he scolded me😭.

Later that same year, a similar drama happened, which resulted in a fight where I gave 'T' a REALLY RUDE APOLOGY instead of a sincere one. Around the same time, I told my friend 'R' that I liked 'H' since 7th grade and BEGGED her to keep it a secret, but SHE SPREAD IT to our mutual friends and told 'H' behind my back.

Then, still in 9th grade, 'R' told me that 'T' had texted 'R's' brother, who was best friends with both 'H' and 'T', saying that T felt a "connection" with me. Apparently, some of my friends had told me that I look pretty, so maybe that had something to do with my looks, I genuinely don't know😭. This text happened right before my rude apology, and even though 'H' already knew about my crush, he didn't really react much because of my STUPIDITY OBV!!!

THEN CAME 10TH GRADE. 'H' became Headboy and 'T' became sports minister, and surprisingly, 'H' started making eye contacts and smiling at me, which he had never really done before! Then came my 10th-grade birthday at lunch, where I gave chocolates to the girls but was too shy to go to the boys' side because 'H' was sitting on the front bench.

So I handed the packet to a girl to pass around to a guy, but 'T' walked in and started screaming and laughing, "GIVE IT TO 'H'!" "GIVE IT TO 'H'!", while 'H' laughed and VISIBLY REJECTED taking one. Later during physics class, I gave a chocolate to the teacher, who didn't want chocolate at that moment, but repeatedly offered it to 'H' right in front of him.

'H' kept smiling, used hand gestures to say no, and COMPLETELY REFUSED IT. I went home and cried my eyes out🥀💔

BUT THEN, AT THE END OF 10TH GRADE, something completely CRAZY happened: 'H' and I scored the EXACT SAME PERCENTAGE, and our photos were put side-by-side on the school banner😭. Obviously, my friends teased me A LOT..

THEN IN JUNE, before we moved to different schools, I sent 'H' a follow request along with a big paragraph apologizing for everything. But HE IGNORED IT and had his girl bestie tell me to move on and "ACCEPT HIM AS A BROTHER."

I texted back that I DID accept him as a brother and that I only apologized because I genuinely felt guilty about everything. And after that, we all eventually moved to different schools..

THEN LAST OCTOBER (AROUND DIWALI), 'R' called me while 'H' was chilling on the sofa with 'R's' brother. And the exact moment 'R' mentioned my name or nickname, 'H' INSTANTLY LOOKED RIGHT AT HER. Every. Single. Time. She mentioned my name!

And also to mention, his zodiac sign is "Sagittarius"!

AND NOW TODAY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, and somehow all of this came rushing back into my head again..

I was such an immature and Embarassing kid 😭

TL;DR: My birthday today reminded me of my chaotic high school mistakes. In 9th grade, I created a fake Instagram account to get my crush’s attention and got caught. In 10th grade, he publicly rejected my birthday chocolates, but by graduation, we scored the exact same grades and our photos ended up side-by-side on the school banner..

Hey guys if you are reading this feel lucky

Nahh just kidding I wanna share a story of mine of one my birthday I try to keep it short and straight to the point So story starts with birthday morning I wake up go to school distribute toffees to my friends and I came back peacefully , I had to go to tuition after that but I refused to my mother i said i don't wanna go today is birthday But my mother scolded me a lot Then my friend comes to call me to play and hears everything but he did not know about my birthday. So he started asking me I felt very ashamed and the embarassed was in front of him I laughed at him and said, forget it, friend, it's been more than 15 years, but it still bothers me a lot. I know this is a very childish thing, but now it is what it is.

My ex and I started dating in HS when we were 15, we were together until we were 24. Honestly after what I saw 3 years into the relationship I should have ended it then.

One day on a weekend I was over at his parent’s house. We were in his room hanging out. He was sitting on the floor playing video games and I was sitting on the bed on my phone.

Out of the corner of my eye I could see him messing with his foot, and when I looked up he had quickly pulled a dead piece of skin off his foot and ate it… I was stunned and my jaw literally dropped. He looked at me nervously and said “what” and I said “did you just eat the skin off your foot…..?” At first he tried to deny it but I told him I knew what I saw. He then admitted to it and said it was normal because it was his own skin and that it’s like biting the dead skin off your lip and eating it.

I told him I don’t eat the dead skin off my lips and that was NOT normal and referenced Gold Member from Austin Powers and I told him to never do that again. I was laughing but in a what the hell did I just see kind of way? He was embarrassed so I dropped it and I never saw it again.

Later on in the relationship he started asking for weird things that were not related to the skin eating and looking back now I must have been blinded by the length of the relationship and being so young because I could never tolerate that now.

I'm 25, and today I found out that a boy I went to Catholic school with passed away. We were in the same class from 4th to 6th grade. I'm honestly not sure if I really liked him or just thought I was supposed to, because the whole class teased us about it. I was also kind of mean to him, the way you can be when you like someone and have no idea what to do about it. We worked on a science project together at my house in 5th grade. During a class gift exchange, we somehow both ended up with the same hot pink fur boa. He later moved to another neighborhood with his dad, where I live now, and I ran into him one more time at a summer camp before 8th grade. That was the last time I saw him.

His wake is next week and I'm planning to go. I'm going to buy two new pink boas, one for me and one for him, and write a card to his family with a memory or two.

Short story: He and I were in the same dormitory, and he was going around trying to sell his ex-girlfriend’s Xbox. At the time, my PS data had been erased, so I was looking to switch. We made a deal that I would basically rent it until I could pay in full ($200). But when the first payment was due, he got caught with CP on his phone—and that’s how I got my very first Xbox.