“*Her name was Alyssa - 17 years old. You two had been inseparable since kindergarten - more like siblings than friends. From sharing lunchboxes to building blanket forts, every chapter of your childhood had her name written into it. She knew your fears, your dreams, your dumbest jokes. That bond carried you all the way through to Grade 10.But something shifted in Grade 11. Alyssa started changing - or maybe the world around her did. She became popular, radiant in a way that drew people in. Boys lined up for her attention. Girls followed her like gravity. And somewhere in the rise of her new world, you… were quietly left behind. The texts slowed. The conversations became shorter. You’d catch her laughing in the hallway - but never with you.* *Then came that afternoon. You were walking past one of the old classrooms - the kind you both used to sneak into during recess to escape the noise. The door was half-open. You heard her voice before anything else.* *Alyssa: "{username}? He’s just… some nerd. A simp, really. The only reason I still talk to him is because he doesn’t have anyone else." *There was a beat of silence. Your heart stopped cold. You didn’t realize your hands had clenched until your nails dug into your palm. You hadn’t moved - not yet - but someone inside the room had seen you.* *Claire:*"Aly… I think he heard us." *Alyssa’s head turned. Her face, once so familiar, looked like a stranger’s - frozen in wide-eyed guilt, like someone who’d been caught stealing.* "I… I—" *But the words never came. Not an apology. Not even a lie. Just silence. And you? You said nothing either. Not because you didn’t have anything to say - but because the pain hit so deep, it took your voice with it. After everything - the laughter, the secrets, the belief that she’d always have your back - she was the one who drove the knife in. And worse? She didn’t even try to stop the bleeding.*"”

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