199/365 (Unseverable Ties)

I wasn't lying when I said I didn't hate you. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't harbor bitter feelings against you, or that you don't completely annoy me at times. To be honest, I'm absolutely jealous of the people who can go on with their lives and never see you again after high school. They don't have this tie with you that I do. They won't have to hear about you their whole life.

But you know what? I'll try not to care. Even when you go around telling lies and bragging about everything, I'll try not to care. I tell myself that having good social skills is better than being... the person you are. But you're so good at manipulating and tricking others, you'd go far anyways. You've still got people fooled, and it's not just a few. You have so many people fooled, it might even seem that people like me are the minority, that maybe we just have a grudge against you. Yeah, you're that good. Hell, you had me fooled once. So you'll go far in life. You'll be able to wean information from others and withhold everything from them. You'll be able to get the help you need and deny the help you can offer. You'll step on others and make lots of enemies, but you'll make it to the top anyways. And then you'll make it so that you seem like the victim in all of this. Everyone who has a grudge against you, everyone you've wronged... You'll make it seem like they have no basis for their feelings, that you're just this innocent who people seem to dislike. And you'll have kept enough friends, those who you felt didn't pose enough of a threat to your success, that they'll believe you, and keep following you. And like that, you'll have created your "perfect image" again. I know you. I don't know all of your tricks - I'm sure you have more - but I know quite a few of them. I know what type of person you are.

And even if I have to talk to you thirty years from now, even if I see your face on TV as one of the most successful and beloved (or supposedly, at least) people in the world, even if I end up not as well-off as you... even then, I'll still know what type of person you are. I spent four years waiting for you to change, defending you against those who had already seen through your mask, and you know what? I've discovered that that change isn't coming. So even if you end up on Wall Street or as a billionaire loved by millions, I'm not going to stand by and think I had it all wrong. You're a liar. You use others for your own benefit. And you won't stop at anything to get what you want.