In grade 7, my friend told me about this boy who had a crush on me since third grade. Apparently I had been oblivious to him when everyone in school had already knew. I didn't do anything about it, but in grade 8, he asked me out. After a year of pure pressure, I ended up dating him - sort of. My parents were strict and I was only 13 years old. What the hell does dating mean anyway to a 13 year old?
We didn't go on a single date or anything, but he walked me half way home every day from school and then we would talk on the phone after school for about half an hour before my parents came home. Cell phones weren't a thing back then so we had to use old fashion land lines.
Fast forward a week or two in, he started asking me questions like, “why do you always dress like a boy? My brother told me he thought you were really ugly.”
Weeks went on and he would continue asking me questions like, “why are you so flat?”
“How come you have no boobs?”
Questions kept flowing and I was unable to answer them all. At the time, I didn't feel anything. I didn't feel insulted he asked me those questions, just confused.
Six months later, he broke up with me saying he didn't think I was a loyal girl. Whatever that means? He told the school I was ugly…and that he made a mistake.
Fast forward half way through high school, age 16? A bunch of guys asked me out and I became pretty popular. Everything he had told me, other guys saw the opposite.
I was told he kept asking other girls out and getting rejected. Several years passed, I was in my early 20’s, he sent me a FB message saying how beautiful I had become and that he was wrong about me.
He was uneducated, didn't do well in school. He was 5 foot at 13 and was still 5 foot at 20-something. I became apparently a swan that he didn't wait for me to become…and he remained an unappealing person. I believe for my age, I'm pretty successful. There was growth in both my career and my image; and that is my best revenge to anyone that thought otherwise. Especially to a 13 year old who called me ugly every day.