Yes! Ohhh, it felt sooo good at the time.

There was a girl who for some reason hated me in my intermediate days (I don’t know about other countries, but here, that means 13–15 years old).

One of the reasons she hated me, later I figured out, was that she and I liked the same boy in our class.

She spread rumours about me and what I had said about other people (some true, said in confidence, and some false - I have learned the lesson to never gossip from that day on). I talked about her under another question, but whatever.

(Found it: Sophia Kim's answer to Former bullied kids, what did your bullies do when they met you as an adult? Long story short, she later tried to add me on FB)

She turned me into the absolute outcast, the lamest there ever was and turned everyone against me. She then decided that if she told my - our - crush that I liked him - the absolute outcast, the lamest there ever was - then he would be appalled. You know, get rid of a rival and all that.

To her - our - surprise…he actually liked me back.

Apparently he’s also had a crush on me. Instead of being appalled, he actually made more efforts to be near me, to talk to me and all that. Even after our classes were changed the next year, he hung around the block where my class was to talk to me.

Man, that girl…she looked so sour the rest of the year.

P.S. I also gained my best friend through this ordeal, and she lost hers. There’s another karma.

Don’t be that b*tch.