Ugh ugh ugh. Ugh.
ugh-prepare yourself for a really, really, really long rant. at the bottom will be a tl;dr-
DISCLOSURE- First names are used of everyone except the friend, because none of these people play CS and they aren't exactly super stand-out unique first names.
ALSO- drugs and alcohol are mentioned, so if the fact that teenagers are doing these things disturb you, just move on.
So one of my friends in school, probably my closest friend, but in a very strange way... this probably won't make any sense... basically I am her only close friend despite the fact I have other close friends and she is stuck with me (not that she doesn't like me) because no one else will put up with her crap over time except me. And I do it because I feel bad and because she appreciates it even though she might not realize that I am not exactly in this to be her friend. I mean, she's a pretty decent friend. Most of the time. We talk all the time and sometimes she buys me some of the school's delicious breakfast cookies (perfectly good reason to be friends with someone)
But as most people who have been friends with her over time, I am beginning to get sick of her and of the stupid decisions she's made and has been making recently. For one thing, she started smoking weed after a month-long fight with her mom after she caught her mom smoking weed and felt like she was being "lied to" and had things "hidden from her." But unbeknownst to her, she'd be smoking it herself the very next month. And she is already friends with her moms dealers so it's not that hard for her to get it.
But that's beside the point; that happened last school year and she still smokes it today but that whole thing has already passed...
What is really bothering me lately is that she always feels the need to date someone, and not just any someone, someone she knows I
absolutely cannot stand. First it was Jordan, an overly lazy high school student who got to graduate early under strange circumstances that didn't seem fair at all, who was constantly bullying me with sexual jokes and just a downright horrible person. He left high school and still smokes a bowl with my friend sometimes, but they stopped dating.
And then it was Zack, an ex of mine, though I don't always consider him an ex-boyfriend because at the time I had just gone through my parents getting divorced and moving to a place I hadn't ever even seen before nearly 1000 miles away with no money and just being thrown into a horrible situation. He took advantage of my frustration and confusion and offered me a shoulder to cry on and then we just sort of ended it and then I wouldn't talk to him for a while and then we sort of worked it out but he just sort of grew up to be a jerk.
Well of course she had to date him. Of course I invited her to my house for an event held by my mom's boyfriend yearly that's supposed to be fun and a friends+family gathering. She hung out with me until Zack arrived with his brothers (you should know that he is the son of one of my mom's best friends, so I see him rather often) for the same event and basically ditched me entirely to flirt with the entire band of 5 brothers except the two youngest. Within hours they all had nicknames and she was cuddling with them on MY couch in MY house watching MY TV without leaving me anywhere to sit so I basically gave up and spent the rest of the event holed up in my room on the computer (and besides, I hate company, so I would have ended up there anyways)
And by the end of the event, which lasted a good three days, she had only talked to me a few times and was always with Zack or his brothers or something. And then they left, and she was still there, and she tried to talk to me but I refused to talk to her. Childish? Maybe. But I was beyond mad. So while I sat there at my computer she gave me a hug as if it would all make it better. I didn't respond to the hug nor to her goodbye.
I just wanted everyone gone so we could clean up the disaster that was our house after the event and move on with a quiet life once more.Zack and her talked on facebook for a while, considering that Zack lived very far away and they couldn't see each other. That lasted for about a week? Maybe a week and a half? Before they broke up and my friend suddenly realized what a jerk he was and should have listened to me but
she really didn't understand at all.So then for a while she actually had a boyfriend I could stand- sweet, innocent, out-of-high-school Loren (consider he was 19 and she was 15). He was a nerd and so timid and while my friend complained to him that he should stand up for himself, he always just said "sorry, sorry, sorry" until she couldn't take the fact that he was a big pushover and dumped him to move onto someone more interesting. I always felt bad for Loren. He really was one of her more tolerable boyfriends.
Actually, my timeline is all messed up. It went Loren > Jordan > Zack, not Jordan > Zack > Loren.
I thinkSo let's get to the present. If you've read this far, just known that I love you and thank you very much. q-q
Right now, she's dating a kid called Austin. At least he is in our grade this time. But there really isn't many good things about him at all. I remember back last school year, as sophomores, when we first saw him as he transferred from a nearby school. He was in our gym class. The first thing she said about him to me was "Wow he's really ugly."
Overtime through gym she became friends with him because he was friends with Jordan, whom she was dating at the time. And he was just as bad as Jordan about the bullying except it came included with hitting me in the rear with badminton rackets.
Oh joy he sounds like a winner already. I had a few other classes with him and immediately was able to see that at the rate he is going at now, he is not going to get very far in life.
Now we come to the current school year. Jordan is gone, but Austin remains, even though he has a felony and other criminal charges that I wish would put him into juvenile prison. He smokes, both cigarettes and weed, as well as does other drugs, he drinks alcohol all the time, and he thinks he is the funniest kid in class when constantly talking back to the teachers while everyone sighs and rolls their eyes, wishing he would shut up. And I mean everyone, even the other self-titled class clowns cannot stand it when he opens his mouth in class. He even leaves during lunch at school to go smoke a bowl.
Now when I first met my friend, she was pretty clean. I do not normally want to hang out with such a crowd that when I go to my friends apartment, we end up at her brother's apartment down the hall, and everyone in there is sitting in a circle on the floor passing around beer bottles and joints
and almost all of them are under the age of 18. (After this encounter, my mother did not allow me to go to her apartment anymore)
Austin is horrible. He's an idiot. He is reckless. He does not think about the consequences of his actions, ever. Thankfully this year, I have no classes with him, mostly because he has to retake almost all of his classes from last year. My friend started dating him. It's like she purposefully dates people she knows I don't like just because she finds it funny that I react negatively to it. And I've had very close friends, online and in real life, do things to me before to purposefully make me mad or annoyed because they enjoy watching my reactions, and it really, really hurts me.
And he's constantly making her mad and she's constantly disappointed in him and I just keep telling her "He's not going to change any time soon" or "I don't get why you keep putting up with this if you expect it to happen." But apparently he has this "other side" that's so
caring and
genuine and
sincere and because of this rarely shown "other side" she can just push all the bad influences away and love him for that "other side." I'm wondering if she stays with him because he is her weed dealer.
And I absolutely dread going to school just for the fact that I have to follow them around as the third wheel and constantly try not to hate Austin but fail in every attempt for the fact that he is simply unbearable.
Now we get to the part that actually brought up this rant. Last school year, during the Jordan-era, she got mad at Jordan and punched a wall and broke her hand. Guess what she just did?
Got mad at Austin for doing something she already was expecting to happen and punched a wall and broke the same hand in the same place.Our text conversation went like this when I was informed.
-pic of extremely swollen hand-
Broke my hand again
Now I have been at the point for a while where I do not sympathize her for her stupid mistakes she knows are wrong because I don't feel like lecturing or giving false sympathy for something that really doesn't deserve it. I tried to put a light spin on things.
What do you have against poor, innocent walls that protect you from the outside world?
I got in a fight with austin
Okay so I was hoping she would just go along with the joke but oh well. I'm here for her to rant to me so I might as well get ready to do my job and ask the obvious question.
What happened?
Backstory from earlier today- she told him to come over to her house at no later than 5:30 or she was going to be mad and he just laughed and said "I'll be there" after drinking with his friends, no doubt.
He didnt show up intil 7 and then was laughing while i yelled at him. He got more [mad] wen i took his hat [A constant game between them] then he was abiut me being mad. So instead of hitting him, I hit the wall
Obviously they have a wonderful relationship.
I tried to continue to keep light and joking about it because she would know I was joking and she already knows how much I hate him.
Well if it were me, I'd have hit him. But that's just me. And you were already expecting him not to show up on time, weren't you. There is never any progress with him, at least what I've observed. What did he do when you punched the wall?
All of that was in good spirit and she knew it, but I felt the need to ask the last question because I know she'd want to continue ranting about it. Understandable.
He was mAd kuz of other stuff that was happening. But he ran to me and was like are you okay?! and he went with me to the hospital. Hes spending the night with me. making sure i keep the stupid splint on
"Other stuff that was happening" a.k.a someone didn't share their alcohol or drugs with him or didn't pay him for drugs on time.
I really have no ideaSo I asked her how badly it was broken and she said she might need surgery and she'll find out later. I finished our conversation with asking if the wall, too, was injured and she finally went along with the joke this time.
Well. Okay. I just really wanted to get that entire thing out. I'm sort of glad I did.
tl;dr- My friend is an idiot for dating stupid drug and alcohol addicts despite my warnings and she punched a wall and broke her hand
again and I find that very... childish.
buh.