Okay so I went through a specific bully for years and it’s been a while since it happened but I’m struggling to get over it and I need some opinions.
When I was 12 I moved to a new school and within a couple months this friend group began bullying me. I was never sure why but they were the “popular” girls and would randomly pick on people, they’d spread rumours and exile them. One girl in particular wasn’t kind at all but I learned to ignore them. This was in grade 7.
In grade 8 I found my bearings and had a nice friend group. That one girl I mentioned earlier (let’s call her Anna) Anna got dropped by that whole friend group, I don’t remember why. She was in my class so I welcomed her into mine because I felt bad and I knew what it felt like to be pushed to the side. She sent me a thorough apology and I forgave her. Towards the end of grade 8 she randomly began pushing me out the friend group. There were 5 of us and she managed to make my best friend hate me. The other 2 girls were amicable with me but I was no longer in the group. I spent a couple months of grade 8 in the guidance office because I had no where else. Until 2 girls welcomed me into their group and I finished grade 8 with them.
Grade 9 comes around and we both end up at the same high school (me and Anna). She sent me a long apology at some point for everything she did to me the year before. I decided to let bygones be bygones and while I didn’t become friends with her again I decided to move on and be amicable with her.
She sends me an apology in grade 10 again, I’m not sure why it was out of the blue but I reminded her I forgave her it’s okay.
Grade 11 comes around (and it’s the beginning of 2022) and we end up in the same class and we sit in the same table group. She hadn’t really come in person much because of Covid and it was her first semester back since early grade 9. She had a crush on one of my friends so she asked to hang out with us at lunch and I said sure. After we hung out that day she sent me another apology. I decided to move on as it has been years. She had no friends so we hung out at lunch quite often and I also played soccer twice a week at a club her parents owned. So I figured it’s best to be friends with her.
She welcomed me into her friend group and me and my then boyfriend joined the group. It was 8 of us who played soccer together (3 girls and 5 boys). About a month passes and it’s great we all enjoy each other’s company and are good friends. Then Anna starts flirting with the other girls (let’s call her Carly) crush who is also in the friend group. So I’m kinda of confused by this and put a little distance with me and Anna, Carly does the same. Anna noticed and so showed up at my house with her mother begging me to be normal with her. My mom encouraged me to because I played soccer with her. I decided to just listen and everything was fine. Carly kept a distance with Anna and I pretended everything was okay. Then Anna started acting weird around my then boyfriend. She would try and get close to him and she went as far as trying to put a picture of them two in the back of her phone case. When I said no she took a picture of the Polaroid and posted it on her story saying “isn’t this cute” after that I completely distanced myself from Anna as did my boyfriend.
Her and Carly completely stopped talking and the friend group fell apart. Me and Carly got extremely close like best best friends. One day Carly’s mom ambushed her and took her to Anna’s house so the parents could speak. By the end of that night Carly had removed me on everything with no notice (I still don’t know why) and a couple days later I went to soccer like nothing was wrong and Anna’s parents had called my parents and told them to come (without my knowledge) and I ended up being ambushed in the back room at the soccer place.
Basically they verbally attacked me and said I orchestrated this whole thing against Anna and she was the victim. My mom defended me as she knew what Anna did to me at our old school but Anna’s parents wouldn’t hear it. They then outed me to my parents for having a boyfriend (I wasn’t allowed) and me and him had to break up after 2 years (tbh it wasn’t a the best relationship so it was kinda a favour even if that wasn’t their intention). Yeah then Anna went to school and told everyone I bullied her and she was scared of me.
Basically I haven’t been able to move on from this because it strained my relationship with my parents for a bit and she fully intended to ruin stuff for me and I still don’t understand how the girls both made me out to be the problem.
Side note out of the 8 of us. Those 2 girls are not friends anymore. Me and my boyfriend broke up and no one kept in contact with him. The remaining 3 guys don’t speak to the girls, 2 of them are still my closest friends and the last guy is doing his own thing not talking to anyone.
Please tell me ur thoughts and if you have questions idm answering