Teenage lessons learned, young wild and free

So everyone has interesting high school stories. The beginning of Mine was pretty average you could say. But my junior and senior years were quite different. I had two best friends, Brooke and Keshia. We were inseparable. Parties, school, cheerleading, typical 16 year olds, this was in 2011.


My family wasn't rich, but we were well off, all my friends came to my house and we hung out there, almost every night for three, four years.
This night we were on my trampoline in the middle of winter after getting out of the hot tub. We had so much fun and have great memories.
Every teenage story has a point where it hits rock bottom, mine was pretty solid.
I learned many lessons of life at an early age
This is not a sob story but a story that's changed me for the better.
Somehow I drifted away from them, found myself in pain with a chronic back problem and taking pain pills, and soon enough I was caught up in it. I started staying home more. My friends started to dislike me more and more. I stopped going to school because my best friends had turned into enemies, my worst nightmare, people who knew everything about me, now hated me.
For two years I struggled as a teenage girl, person, just human. Bullied and tortured on the school bus by my once best friends. They threw things at me, ice balls, spit wads, it was horrifying. My senior year I stopped going to school. I really wanted to graduate but it was impossible to make it through the day with them laughing behind my back. My parents encouraged me to get back to school, and a very special teacher believed in me and offered to tutor me. In 2013 I graduated from high school. I did it.

As horrifying as my situation was and how badly it hurt back then. I am an improved and a more understanding person from it. I'm clean three and a half years from pain pills. I am in love with the love of my life, Justin. And I'm so happy with where I am in life. I'm so much stronger because of it. I believe it was planned for me to go through that, to make me who I am today.

Thank you for the read!