Hi, guys! I’m Lucinda. And here is the photo of me and my best friends
ever – Lora and Caroline. Do you see how happy we are? This picture was taken about 6 months ago
and since then we’ve never been that happy together anymore. And here's why. Lora, Caroline and I have known each other
since forever. We used to spend a lot of time together and
had always been more like family, than friends. From the moment all three of us entered middle
school, like, years ago, it became evident that we had started to differ a lot from each
other. I’d gotten interested in athletics, so I
joined the school's track team and started prepping for marathons on an annual basis. But my friends have never been into sports
at all. They’d rather talk about celebrity gossip
and current movies and their film directors who love eating cheeseburgers, or join another
book club or something like that. We’ve never had problems with our different
interests at all. But a few months ago I suddenly got the feeling
that Lora and Caroline were no longer as close to me as they used to be. Sometimes there were even times when I called
my besties to ask them to go out somewhere, but they declined. It seemed like they were trying to avoid me. I even tried to ask them directly about what
was happening, but they only said they had to get prepared for a school project that
they were working on together and that they had too much to handle. Then Saturday came. Saturday was a day that we used to spend together,
from morning 'til night. It was our tradition to go shopping, take
a walk in the park, and watch whatever was playing at the movies. And then late at night, we would cook something
special for ourselves, as usual, eat it in front of another black-and-white movie, and
then have a sleepover at one of our houses. That night it was Lora’s turn to have us
over. We were having such a good time all day long
and I had even forgotten about my thoughts I had about the strange things happening between
us. We had made an almost perfect creamy soup
and baked some zucchini muffins for dinner – yup! It was my idea of encouraging healthy eating
for my friends. Everything was so perfect. It literally felt like it did when the three
of us had a pajama party for the first time. Then we decided that I would be the first
to go upstairs and take a shower, while Lora and Caroline would clean up the kitchen. When I entered Lora’s room, I noticed her
laptop with the screen turned on. I got closer so I could switch it off, but
an open message on Facebook suddenly grabbed my attention. It was a conversation between Lora and Caroline
about…me! Just so you understand, I never ever read
someone else's private messages or whatever, but the stuff written in this message, and
in the next one, just made me want to keep reading. It was really shocking in a bad way. My friends, my girls who I thought were closer
than sisters to me and who always showed their love to me, were mocking me in there, in their
e-conversation. They wrote that I was annoying with all my
talking about running and proper nutrition, and that I had become boring to hang out with,
and that the two of them had a better time together than the three of us, and…Oh! There was plenty of this stuff in there. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought they had to work on a school project,
but it became evident that they were just talking about me behind my back! Neither of them happened to be courageous
enough to tell me how bad it was to be friends with me straight to my face. Even though I felt offended and betrayed,
I didn't say anything to them that night. But I kept thinking and re-thinking about
the whole situation, and I figured out that revenge would be the only thing that would
satisfy me. Since the three of us had been together for
a good chunk of our lives, many interesting things had happened to us, some of which were
definitely embarrassing. For example, Lora has always been afraid of
insects, like almost to death. She could never even stand a ladybug landing
on her hand. And Caroline had recently fallen in love with
a young teaching assistant. She had even photoshopped a couple of their
separate photos together so they looked like a loving couple. She kept those photos in her diary. Of course, these were the most secret things
from my friends lives and nobody else knew about them. But for me, knowing that information, it was
easy to come up with a revenge plan. Luckily, the perfect day was about to arrive
– Valentine’s Day. I had created two presents for my friends,
making sure that they wouldn’t find out who had made them until the very end. When V-day came, Lora found a beautiful box
in her locker. At first she was really excited about the
present, thinking that it was from some secret admirer. But when she opened it, a flock of butterflies
flew out right at her face. Jesus, she was screaming so loud and running
so fast that she managed to escape the hall, leaving virtually the whole school laughing
at her. I'd never seen her run that fast. She could have even beaten me in my marathon. Of course, I made no sign that I had anything
to do with this event. And then Caroline’s turn for revenge came
in the form of a couple of emails I’d sent to her teaching assistant and crush on Caroline’s
behalf... 115 actually, saying how much she loved him
and attaching a few photos from her diary. To make sure everyone knew about this secret,
I decorated the classroom with some Valentines that were devoted to that teaching assistant. And some photos too, of course. I guess there's no need to tell you that this
V-Day went down in school history, or that my friends finally realized who had done all
of this. To be honest, I was both happy to get revenge
and sorry that my friends got really embarrassed. We had a talk later that day. It was then that I told them that I had seen
their chat about me. I said I couldn’t believe they were that
mean to their best friend. And they said the same. We were obviously not that different from
one another if we'd managed to offend each other that badly. The three of us apologized for our behavior,
but none of us actually excused each other. For now we are still pretending to be friends
in front our moms so we don't disappoint them, but in reality I doubt we could ever become
as close as we used to be before. Now please, give this video a like, in case
you've ever happened to offend your best friends or gotten offended by them yourself. And don’t forget to tell us how you managed
to cope with everything in the comments below. I really need some advice here.
