Have you ever been someone’s pity friend? Specifically have you been the one someone pitied.

Ive been the one being pitied. It was in 4th grade but it went on for much longer because she couldn’t just leave me alone.

In fourth grade, I didn’t have a lot of close friends. That’s not to say I was a recluse or anything. I remember interacting with my classmates and my teachers. I was just the type of person that liked being alone. Even when I did have friends. I would get annoyed easily.

But anyways, there was this girl her name was Emily. She said she saw me crying on the bus one time. She didn’t know why I was crying but she felt bad so she started approaching me. Seems nice huh. I remember she gave me a stack of post it notes. I found it odd because I didn’t know her that well. She would sit near me at recess but she didn’t try to make conversation. So I didn’t talk back to her either. I remember finding it weird. So I just got up and walked away without saying anything. I ran away and then I sat under a tree to hide from her. She followed me.

So then I decided that she was trying to be my friend but that she just lacked social skills. So I decided to initiate conversation more often. It was followed by weird remarks like “See! You’re not shy!”

I just decided that she was weird but didn’t mean any harm. So I keeping trying to be friends with her. But then guess what. She started trying to boss me around. She told me that I need to go talk to people. She said. “You need to go talk to people right now.” I was confused. Did she just approach me so that she could boss me around? I concluded that she saw me as a fixer upper.

Since then I started to hate her. I wanted to get rid of her. When she found out about my feelings. She was mad. She rubbed in my face all that she did. She was like I gave you a gift. I was the one that started hanging out with you because I felt bad. A whole slew of things.