My Best Friend Was Jealous Of My Popularity

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0:00this time last year I was at the peak of my high school years I had friends I was Captain on my

0:05football team I had respect and my best friend at the time his name was Toby we were kind of

0:11like the cool popular kids you know everyone was just like come to my party come to my party you

0:16know like we're doing this we're doing that and we want you to come and at the time I was

0:20dating ebony were kind of like the couple you know like captain of the football team captain of the

0:25Ching team you know one day I scored the final and winning goal that won my school the cup the whole

0:32team was celebrating everyone was celebrating and I look over to my mate Toby who used to be

0:37on the football team however he had to sit out this season because of an injury and he looks

0:43at me very weirdly he has a massive scowl on his face I'm like what's going on so I approached him

0:50after the game and I said hey I missed you like I can't wait for next season and he was like yeah

0:55yeah okay whatever and got his stuff and left that night I went to a party to celebrate the

1:00end of the finals and I noticed TOA was there and I went to him and I was like are you okay like did

1:06I do something and he just ignored me and then I was kind of like did I like what did I do like

1:12why are you mad at me and he threw a drink at my face and at this point everyone's watching us so

1:18I don't want to escalate anything for my sake or for his sake so I just kind of you know laugh at

1:23us of the joke you know so I left with ebony to go back to my house just to watch some movies and

1:28something and I get a call call from Toby and he's like why have you changed like what have

1:34I done and I'm like what do you mean what have you done you've done nothing like what have I

1:37done and he's like well you've obviously moved on from me so I don't want to be your friend anymore

1:43and I was like you know we've been friends literally since Nursery like I don't want to

1:47lose as a friend or anything and he hangs up and blocks me the next week it was Monday morning and

1:53one of Toby's friends approaches me and he starts telling me all about you know how jealous he was

2:00why did I get you know all the popularity and stuff while I was only the second best looking

2:05back he was kind of second best he'd always be second choice and I understand his anger

2:10and I went to find him at the cafeteria and I was like bro like I understand you're mad

2:15I'm sorry you feel like that and he gets up and he punches me so in natural self-defense

2:20I start punching him and there's a massive scrap and eventually I get dragged away and

2:25I'm suspended from school for 6 weeks and when I come back somehow in those six weeks Toby had

2:32turned everyone against me but I did have my immediate friend group which always stuck by

2:37me I just really miss him because we had such good times and moral of the story is that make

2:43sure not to leave anyone behind because you know you might be hurting them or something