🚢The Prank That Broke Us: Betrayal & Regret [Full Movie]

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00:00:04when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:00:09football

00:00:09field students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktok and someone even threw a milkshake at me

00:00:14i was tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up

00:00:20savannah said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie

00:00:24you're not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just

00:00:28stared at him silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's

00:00:32entertainment i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was

00:00:39just a prank don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when

00:00:45the football players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading

00:00:51them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two

00:00:58whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that

00:01:04same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just

00:01:08there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so

00:01:11did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every

00:01:15strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement

00:01:19she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment

00:01:24of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me

00:01:30he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on

00:01:35his face

00:01:35the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would

00:01:41protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking

00:01:46as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down he

00:01:50said it so

00:01:51casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes

00:01:55no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out

00:02:00of

00:02:00me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob

00:02:04like a

00:02:05dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at

00:02:09my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment

00:02:14i thought i saw

00:02:15a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we

00:02:19used to

00:02:19prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke

00:02:23but he

00:02:23forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating

00:02:28someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my

00:02:32throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i

00:02:36didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how

00:02:41do

00:02:41you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy

00:02:46his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween

00:02:50prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i

00:02:55just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and

00:02:59in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being

00:03:03mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but

00:03:08i

00:03:08couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of

00:03:12him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight

00:03:17to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were

00:03:24horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash

00:03:30off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't

00:03:36the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless

00:03:42words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds

00:03:47making

00:03:48me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this

00:03:53was

00:03:53real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've

00:03:59been in

00:03:59there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice

00:04:05was

00:04:05so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't

00:04:10notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell

00:04:14her that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like

00:04:18a clown on

00:04:19the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my

00:04:23face

00:04:24was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like

00:04:28they

00:04:28were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a

00:04:34piercing

00:04:34pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years

00:04:40our families lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together

00:04:45our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out

00:04:50on the first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed

00:04:55me around

00:04:56like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever

00:05:03back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good

00:05:08girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

00:05:13classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying

00:05:18so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up

00:05:23all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make

00:05:27you my

00:05:27bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i

00:05:32thought we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day

00:05:39he would look at me seriously and say eleanor varse will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in

00:05:45his

00:05:45eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave

00:05:51to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing

00:05:56stock of the whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the

00:06:02school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded

00:06:08the videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time

00:06:14the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what

00:06:20was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this

00:06:26is

00:06:26what everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted to today's source of

00:06:32entertainment savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added

00:06:37a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three

00:06:43blushing emojis her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for team

00:06:49savannah what's next for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space

00:06:57so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought

00:07:05would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt me the most

00:07:20when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:07:25football field

00:07:25students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied

00:07:31up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said

00:07:36she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not

00:07:40actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently

00:07:45i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment

00:07:48i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just a prank

00:07:56don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football

00:08:02players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them

00:08:09leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours

00:08:15leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky

00:08:21smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there

00:08:24to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did

00:08:27sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every

00:08:31strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement

00:08:35she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment

00:08:40of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me

00:08:46he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on

00:08:51his face

00:08:51the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought

00:08:56would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still

00:09:01joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down

00:09:06he said it

00:09:07so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes

00:09:11no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out

00:09:16of me and

00:09:16i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like a

00:09:21dying insect

00:09:21leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made

00:09:26me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i

00:09:30saw a flicker

00:09:31of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to

00:09:35prank

00:09:35each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but

00:09:39he forgot

00:09:40our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone in front

00:09:44of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like

00:09:48it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak

00:09:53i

00:09:53just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal

00:09:58into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes

00:10:02gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought

00:10:07it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last

00:10:12look

00:10:12in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard

00:10:16his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back

00:10:20my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped

00:10:25i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him and if that

00:10:28happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to the bathroom

00:10:34as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were horrifying i stood

00:10:41under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off

00:10:47the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my

00:10:54ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank

00:11:00they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the

00:11:05pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really

00:11:10did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there

00:11:15a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was

00:11:21so hoarse

00:11:22it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything

00:11:26was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the

00:11:31person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on

00:11:35the

00:11:35school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face

00:11:40was

00:11:40pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they

00:11:44were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a

00:11:50piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16

00:11:55years

00:11:56our families lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together

00:12:01our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out

00:12:06on the first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed

00:12:11me around

00:12:12like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever

00:12:19back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good

00:12:24girl

00:12:24who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

00:12:29classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying

00:12:34so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay

00:12:39up all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to

00:12:43make you

00:12:43my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i

00:12:48thought

00:12:48we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he

00:12:56would look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his

00:13:01eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave

00:13:07to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock

00:13:12of the whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip

00:13:19instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from

00:13:24this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew

00:13:30the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to

00:13:37her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what everyone

00:13:43thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted too today's source of entertainment

00:13:49savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

00:13:54savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her

00:14:01comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next

00:14:06around two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their

00:14:15entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my

00:14:23side he was the one who had hurt me the most

00:14:36when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:14:41football field

00:14:41students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was

00:14:46tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah

00:14:52said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're

00:14:56not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him

00:15:00silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment

00:15:04i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just a prank

00:15:12don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football

00:15:17players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them

00:15:25leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours

00:15:31leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky

00:15:37smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there

00:15:40to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did

00:15:43sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every

00:15:47strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement

00:15:51she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment

00:15:56of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me

00:16:02he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on

00:16:07his face

00:16:07the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought

00:16:12would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still

00:16:17joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down

00:16:22he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied

00:16:27the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked

00:16:31the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i

00:16:35curled into

00:16:36a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the

00:16:40tape

00:16:40tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for

00:16:45a moment i thought

00:16:46i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just

00:16:50a prank we used to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was

00:16:54just like any

00:16:54other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never

00:16:59involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at

00:17:03him saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out

00:17:07it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16

00:17:12years

00:17:12of friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable

00:17:16don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday

00:17:20she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right

00:17:25but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of

00:17:29friendship

00:17:29countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where

00:17:34are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt

00:17:38like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would

00:17:42sob

00:17:42uncontrollably right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything

00:17:47when i got home i went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises

00:17:53and

00:17:54whence covering my body they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin

00:17:59over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every

00:18:06trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still

00:18:12crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a

00:18:17curse

00:18:18the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded

00:18:23me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah

00:18:28my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey

00:18:33i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom

00:18:40must

00:18:40have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best

00:18:44i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world

00:18:48had

00:18:48betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself

00:18:53to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks

00:18:58on my wrists

00:18:58were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the

00:19:02antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared

00:19:08to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same

00:19:13street

00:19:14our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were

00:19:19in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the one

00:19:24who gave

00:19:24him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow

00:19:29ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's

00:19:36eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always

00:19:41listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i

00:19:45said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final

00:19:51exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set

00:19:56for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush

00:20:01and

00:20:01say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends

00:20:06the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously

00:20:12and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a

00:20:19toy he could

00:20:19humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention

00:20:24he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the whole school

00:20:29to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page

00:20:35they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon

00:20:41in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew

00:20:46the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming

00:20:53to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what

00:20:58everyone

00:20:59thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted two today's source of entertainment

00:21:05savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

00:21:10savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis

00:21:16her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's

00:21:22next if around two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain

00:21:31was their

00:21:31entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my

00:21:38side he was the one who had hurt me the most

00:21:52when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:21:57football field

00:21:57students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was

00:22:02tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah

00:22:08said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're

00:22:12not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him

00:22:16silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment

00:22:21i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind

00:22:25please ellie it was just a prank don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of

00:22:32the

00:22:32equipment room when the football players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole

00:22:38life was leading them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for

00:22:45two whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that

00:22:52same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was

00:22:56just there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind

00:22:59him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders

00:23:02like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane

00:23:06the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her

00:23:11entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him

00:23:18be for me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a

00:23:22golden glow on his

00:23:23face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought

00:23:28would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still

00:23:33joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down

00:23:38he said it

00:23:38so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one

00:23:43cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out of me

00:23:48and i

00:23:48felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like a dying

00:23:53insect

00:23:53leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made

00:23:57me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i

00:24:02saw a flicker

00:24:03of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to

00:24:07prank

00:24:07each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but

00:24:11he forgot our

00:24:12old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone

00:24:16in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat

00:24:20felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want

00:24:24to

00:24:24speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put

00:24:29this

00:24:29betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes

00:24:34gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought

00:24:39it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last

00:24:43look in that

00:24:44look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his

00:24:48voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were

00:24:53shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid

00:24:57i would

00:24:57break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost

00:25:02lost everything when i got home i went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw

00:25:09the

00:25:09bruises and wentz covering my body they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin

00:25:15over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace

00:25:22of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin

00:25:29and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water

00:25:34sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this

00:25:39wasn't

00:25:40a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on

00:25:45the door

00:25:45ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower

00:25:51coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her

00:25:56book

00:25:57club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how

00:26:01could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i

00:26:05was

00:26:05tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in

00:26:10the

00:26:10mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a

00:26:15sickening shade

00:26:15of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning

00:26:19them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart

00:26:2416 years

00:26:25i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our parents were old friends

00:26:31our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class

00:26:36since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the one who gave him a

00:26:40piece

00:26:40of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can

00:26:48have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure

00:26:54he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered

00:26:59him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his

00:27:04baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously

00:27:09organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're

00:27:14the

00:27:14best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but

00:27:18secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly

00:27:24hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say eleanor varse will you

00:27:31be my

00:27:31girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted

00:27:36just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me

00:27:42to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the whole school to trample all over my dignity

00:27:47my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on

00:27:54it

00:27:54mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a

00:27:59broken doll swaying every time the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying

00:28:06emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a

00:28:12slap

00:28:13in the face so this is what everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted

00:28:18too

00:28:19today's source of entertainment savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he

00:28:25even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around

00:28:30followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man

00:28:36anything for queen savannah what's next for round two i shut off my phone

00:28:42my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything

00:28:50and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt

00:28:57me the most

00:29:08when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:29:12football field

00:29:13students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me

00:29:18i was tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up

00:29:23savannah said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie

00:29:27you're not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at

00:29:32him

00:29:32silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment

00:29:37i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank

00:29:44don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football

00:29:49players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them

00:29:56leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours

00:30:03leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky

00:30:09smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there to

00:30:12watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna

00:30:15miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every strand

00:30:19of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she couldn't

00:30:24hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment of course savannah asks

00:30:30savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me he walked up to the

00:30:35goal

00:30:35post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on his face the features were so

00:30:40familiar

00:30:40but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would protect me forever now only

00:30:46held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking as if i wasn't a person

00:30:51but a

00:30:51toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down he said it so casually like he was commenting

00:30:56on

00:30:56the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i

00:31:00crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had

00:31:05collapsed

00:31:05every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped

00:31:10the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw

00:31:14my

00:31:15red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i saw a flicker of regret i

00:31:19thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to prank each other

00:31:23all

00:31:23the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but he forgot our

00:31:28old pranks

00:31:28never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of

00:31:32people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like it was

00:31:36stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just

00:31:41didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal

00:31:45into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes

00:31:50gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we

00:31:55thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one

00:31:59last look

00:31:59in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard

00:32:04his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my

00:32:08steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped

00:32:13i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him and if that

00:32:16happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to the bathroom

00:32:22as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were horrifying i stood

00:32:29under

00:32:29the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the

00:32:35humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears

00:32:42the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank they

00:32:48replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was

00:32:53good it

00:32:53kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as

00:32:58a toy to

00:32:58impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the

00:33:04water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like

00:33:11my

00:33:11own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for

00:33:15the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in

00:33:19the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i

00:33:24couldn't

00:33:24bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless

00:33:29the marks

00:33:30on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones

00:33:33i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was

00:33:39nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on

00:33:45the

00:33:45same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on

00:33:50weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the

00:33:54first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around

00:34:00like

00:34:00a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever

00:34:06back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good

00:34:12girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

00:34:16classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying

00:34:21so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay

00:34:26up all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to

00:34:31make you

00:34:31my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i

00:34:36thought we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day

00:34:43he would look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out

00:34:49in his eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would

00:34:54never leave to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the

00:34:59laughing stock of the whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the

00:35:05school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the

00:35:12videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every

00:35:17time the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what

00:35:24was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this

00:35:30is what

00:35:30everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted too today's source of entertainment

00:35:37savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

00:35:42savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis

00:35:48her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next

00:35:54for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was

00:36:03their

00:36:03entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my

00:36:10side he was the one who had hurt me the most

00:36:24when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:36:28football field

00:36:29students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was

00:36:34tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah

00:36:39said she wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're

00:36:44not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him

00:36:48silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment

00:36:53i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank

00:37:00don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football

00:37:05players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them

00:37:12leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours

00:37:19leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky

00:37:24smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there

00:37:28to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did

00:37:31sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every

00:37:35strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement

00:37:39she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment of

00:37:44course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me he walked

00:37:50up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on his face

00:37:55the

00:37:55features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would

00:38:00protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking

00:38:05as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down he

00:38:10said it

00:38:10so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes

00:38:15no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out

00:38:19of

00:38:19me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob

00:38:24like a

00:38:24dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my

00:38:29skin

00:38:29made me gasped when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought

00:38:34i saw a

00:38:34flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used

00:38:38to

00:38:39prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke

00:38:43but he

00:38:43forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating

00:38:47someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my

00:38:51throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i

00:38:56didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship

00:39:00how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that

00:39:04it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool

00:39:09halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound

00:39:14i

00:39:14just gave leo one last look and that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in

00:39:19that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad

00:39:23okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i

00:39:27couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of

00:39:31him

00:39:32and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to

00:39:37the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were

00:39:43horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the

00:39:49milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't

00:39:56the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin

00:40:01and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot

00:40:06water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that

00:40:11this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah

00:40:16my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey

00:40:21i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom

00:40:27must

00:40:28have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best

00:40:31i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world

00:40:36had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring

00:40:40myself

00:40:41to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks

00:40:45on my

00:40:46wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out

00:40:50the

00:40:50antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the

00:40:55pain

00:40:56in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our parents

00:41:02were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the

00:41:07same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the one who gave

00:41:12him

00:41:12a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie

00:41:19you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his

00:41:25smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into

00:41:30trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me it was

00:41:35him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all

00:41:40my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he used to say

00:41:45ellie

00:41:45you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry

00:41:49you

00:41:50but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest partners i even

00:41:56secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say eleanor varse

00:42:02will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate

00:42:07whenever

00:42:08he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie

00:42:13me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the whole school to trample all over my

00:42:18dignity

00:42:19my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on

00:42:25it

00:42:25mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like

00:42:31a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying

00:42:38emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like

00:42:44a slap in the face so this is what everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo

00:42:50had posted

00:42:50two today's source of entertainment savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post

00:42:56he even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around

00:43:02followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man

00:43:08anything for queen savannah what's next for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow

00:43:16empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person

00:43:24i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt me the most

00:43:40when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:43:44football field

00:43:45students walking by laughed at me filmed tick tocks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied

00:43:50up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said she

00:43:56wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not actually

00:44:00mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently i

00:44:05guess

00:44:05my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment i transferred schools

00:44:10the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank don't be like this after

00:44:18gym class

00:44:18i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football players surrounded me leo carter

00:44:23the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me

00:44:31to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by

00:44:37everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean

00:44:42pockets he strolled over like he was just there to watch the show the rest of the football team his

00:44:45accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair

00:44:49flowing over her shoulders like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did

00:44:53it that's insane the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was

00:44:59just her entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from

00:45:05him before me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a

00:45:09golden glow on

00:45:10his face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought

00:45:16would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still

00:45:21joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down

00:45:26he said it

00:45:26so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes

00:45:31no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out

00:45:35of me

00:45:35and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like

00:45:40a dying

00:45:40insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin

00:45:45made

00:45:45me gasped when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i

00:45:50saw

00:45:50a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we

00:45:54used

00:45:54to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other

00:45:58joke but

00:45:59he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating

00:46:03someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing

00:46:07my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i

00:46:11didn't

00:46:12want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do

00:46:16you

00:46:16put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's

00:46:21creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween

00:46:25prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i

00:46:30just gave leo

00:46:31one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was

00:46:35over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back

00:46:40my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop

00:46:44if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him

00:46:47and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to the

00:46:53bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were horrifying i

00:47:00stood

00:47:01under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off

00:47:07the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my

00:47:13ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank they

00:47:20replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was

00:47:25good

00:47:25it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me

00:47:30as

00:47:30a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run

00:47:36up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't

00:47:42sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong

00:47:46that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i

00:47:50trusted

00:47:51most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost

00:47:55no i

00:47:56couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips

00:48:00colorless

00:48:01the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into

00:48:05my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain

00:48:10but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our

00:48:16families

00:48:16lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had

00:48:21barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the

00:48:26first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around

00:48:31like

00:48:32a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever

00:48:38back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good

00:48:43girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

00:48:48classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying

00:48:53so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay

00:48:58up all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to

00:49:02make you

00:49:03my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i

00:49:08thought we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day

00:49:15he would look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in

00:49:21his

00:49:21eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave

00:49:26to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock

00:49:32of

00:49:32the whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip

00:49:38instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from

00:49:44this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew

00:49:51the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming

00:49:56to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what

00:50:02everyone

00:50:02thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted too today's source of entertainment

00:50:08savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

00:50:14savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis

00:50:20her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for team savannah what's next

00:50:26for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was

00:50:35their entertainment

00:50:36my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side

00:50:43he was the one who had hurt me the most

00:50:56when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

00:51:00football field

00:51:01students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was

00:51:06tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah

00:51:11said she wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're

00:51:15not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him

00:51:20silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment

00:51:24i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank

00:51:32don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football

00:51:37players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them

00:51:44leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole

00:51:50hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that

00:51:56same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was

00:51:59just there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind

00:52:02him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her

00:52:06shoulders like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane

00:52:10the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her

00:52:15entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard

00:52:21from him before me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast

00:52:25a golden

00:52:26glow on his face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i

00:52:31once thought would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he

00:52:36was still joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get

00:52:41her down

00:52:41he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily

00:52:46untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked

00:52:51the

00:52:51wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled

00:52:55into a blob

00:52:56like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing

00:53:00at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a

00:53:05moment i thought i saw

00:53:06a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we

00:53:10used to

00:53:10prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke

00:53:14but he

00:53:15forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating

00:53:19someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my

00:53:23throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i

00:53:27didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how

00:53:32do

00:53:32you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy

00:53:37his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween

00:53:41prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i

00:53:46just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in

00:53:51that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being

00:53:54mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but

00:53:59i

00:53:59couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of

00:54:03him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight

00:54:08to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wents covering my body they were

00:54:15horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash

00:54:21off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't

00:54:27the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless

00:54:34words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds

00:54:39making

00:54:39me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this

00:54:44was

00:54:44real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've

00:54:50been in

00:54:50there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice

00:54:56was

00:54:57so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't

00:55:01notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her

00:55:06that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a

00:55:10clown on

00:55:10the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my

00:55:15face

00:55:15was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like

00:55:20they

00:55:20were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a

00:55:25piercing

00:55:25pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years

00:55:31our

00:55:32families lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads

00:55:37had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first

00:55:42day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like

00:55:48a

00:55:48little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever

00:55:54back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good

00:55:59girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

00:56:04classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying

00:56:09so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay

00:56:14up all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to

00:56:18make you

00:56:19my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i

00:56:24thought we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day

00:56:30he would look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in

00:56:37his

00:56:37eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave

00:56:42to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing

00:56:47stock of the whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the

00:56:53school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded

00:56:59the videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time

00:57:05the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was

00:57:12coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is

00:57:18what

00:57:18everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted two today's source of entertainment

00:57:24savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

00:57:30savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis

00:57:35her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's

00:57:41next you're for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my

00:57:50pain was

00:57:50their entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be

00:57:57on my side when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post

00:58:15on the school's

00:58:16football field students walking by laughed at me filmed tick tocks and someone even threw a milkshake

00:58:21at me i was tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally

00:58:26showed up

00:58:27savannah said she wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little

00:58:30joke ellie you're not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just

00:58:35stared at him silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's

00:58:39entertainment i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a

00:58:47prank don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the

00:58:52football players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them

00:59:00leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours

00:59:07leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky

00:59:12smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there to

00:59:16watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna

00:59:19miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every strand

00:59:23of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she couldn't

00:59:27hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment of course savannah asks

00:59:34savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me he walked up to the

00:59:39goal post and

00:59:39looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on his face the features were so familiar but

00:59:45right now

00:59:45he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would protect me forever now only held mockery so

00:59:50how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy

00:59:55all right

00:59:56all right joke's over let's get her down he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather

01:00:00a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard

01:00:05onto

01:00:05the grass the impact knocked the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone

01:00:10in my

01:00:10body ached i curled into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage

01:00:14off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red

01:00:18swollen eyes

01:00:19he paused for a second for a moment i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would

01:00:23apologize

01:00:24what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to prank each other all the time he

01:00:28said it

01:00:28so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved

01:00:33destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people

01:00:36they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with

01:00:40cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know

01:00:45what

01:00:45to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare

01:00:50made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt

01:00:55savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal

01:01:00you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was

01:01:0416 years

01:01:04of friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind

01:01:08hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky

01:01:12but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i

01:01:17would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him and if that happened i would have

01:01:20truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes

01:01:28i saw the bruises and went covering my body they were horrifying i stood under the scalding

01:01:33water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation

01:01:40trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears

01:01:46the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank

01:01:51they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain

01:01:56was good

01:01:57it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me

01:02:01as a toy

01:02:02to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the

01:02:08water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like

01:02:14my

01:02:15own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for

01:02:19the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in

01:02:23the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i

01:02:28couldn't

01:02:28bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless

01:02:33the marks

01:02:33on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i

01:02:37took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing

01:02:43compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the

01:02:48same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on

01:02:53weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the

01:02:58first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around

01:03:03like

01:03:03a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever

01:03:10back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good

01:03:15girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

01:03:20classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying

01:03:25so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay

01:03:30up all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to

01:03:34make you

01:03:34my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i

01:03:40thought we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day

01:03:46he would look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out

01:03:52in his eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would

01:03:57never leave to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the

01:04:03laughing stock of the whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the

01:04:09school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the

01:04:15videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every

01:04:21time the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got

01:04:27what was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so

01:04:33this is what

01:04:34everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted to today's source of entertainment

01:04:40savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

01:04:46savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her

01:04:52comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next for round two

01:04:58i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my

01:05:08dignity

01:05:09was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the one

01:05:16who had

01:05:16hurt me the most

01:05:27when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

01:05:32football field

01:05:33students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktok and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied

01:05:38up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said she

01:05:43wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not actually

01:05:48mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently i

01:05:52guess my

01:05:53dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment i transferred schools

01:05:57the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank don't be like this after

01:06:05gym

01:06:06class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football players surrounded me leo carter

01:06:11the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them leo knocked me unconscious and tied

01:06:18me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked

01:06:25by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his

01:06:30jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there to watch the show the rest of the football team

01:06:33his accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair

01:06:37flowing over her shoulders like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually

01:06:41did it that's insane the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain

01:06:46was just her entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard

01:06:53from him before me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast

01:06:57a golden

01:06:57glow on his face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i

01:07:03once

01:07:03thought would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he

01:07:08was still joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get

01:07:13her down

01:07:13he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily

01:07:18untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked

01:07:22the

01:07:22wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled

01:07:27into a blob

01:07:27like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing

01:07:32at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a

01:07:37moment i thought

01:07:37i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just

01:07:41a prank we used to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was

01:07:45just like any

01:07:46other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never

01:07:50involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him

01:07:54saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it

01:07:59wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years

01:08:03of

01:08:03friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me

01:08:08like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film

01:08:12a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make

01:08:17a

01:08:17sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories

01:08:22and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop

01:08:26being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on

01:08:30knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably

01:08:34right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home

01:08:39i went

01:08:40straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and went covering my body they

01:08:47were

01:08:47horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake

01:08:53to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't

01:08:59the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless

01:09:06words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds

01:09:11making

01:09:11me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this

01:09:16was

01:09:16real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've

01:09:22been in

01:09:22there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice

01:09:28was

01:09:28so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't

01:09:33notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell

01:09:37her that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like

01:09:41a clown

01:09:42on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess

01:09:46my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple

01:09:51red like they were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by

01:09:55bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd

01:10:01known leo

01:10:02for 16 years our families lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping

01:10:08together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his

01:10:13eyes out on the first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that

01:10:18he followed

01:10:19me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together

01:10:25forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the

01:10:31good

01:10:31girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

01:10:36classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored

01:10:42him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all

01:10:46night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you

01:10:50my bride

01:10:51someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we

01:10:56were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would

01:11:03look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes

01:11:09i was

01:11:10just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get

01:11:15savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the

01:11:20whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip

01:11:26instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from

01:11:32this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew

01:11:38the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming

01:11:44to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what

01:11:50everyone

01:11:50thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted two today's source of entertainment

01:11:56savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

01:12:02savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis

01:12:08comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next

01:12:13for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was

01:12:22their

01:12:23entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side

01:12:31he was the one who had hurt me the most

01:12:43when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

01:12:48football field

01:12:49students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied

01:12:54up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said she

01:12:59wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not actually

01:13:04mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently i

01:13:08guess

01:13:08my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment i transferred schools

01:13:13the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank don't be like this after

01:13:21gym class

01:13:22i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football players surrounded me leo carter the boy

01:13:27next door i'd known my whole life was leading them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the

01:13:35goal post of the football field for two whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone

01:13:42finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets

01:13:46he strolled over like he was just there to watch the show the rest of the football team his

01:13:49accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair

01:13:53flowing over her shoulders like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it

01:13:57that's insane the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was

01:14:02just her entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from

01:14:09him before me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a

01:14:13golden glow on

01:14:14his face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought

01:14:19would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still

01:14:24joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down

01:14:29he said it

01:14:30so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes

01:14:34no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out

01:14:39of me

01:14:39and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like

01:14:44a dying

01:14:44insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin

01:14:48made

01:14:49me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i

01:14:53saw a flicker

01:14:54of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to

01:14:58prank

01:14:58each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but

01:15:02he forgot

01:15:03our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone in

01:15:07front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat

01:15:11felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want

01:15:16to

01:15:16speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put

01:15:20this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's

01:15:24creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween

01:15:29prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i

01:15:34just gave

01:15:34leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in that

01:15:38moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i

01:15:43didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't

01:15:47stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him

01:15:51and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to the

01:15:56bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and went covering my body they were horrifying i

01:16:04stood

01:16:04under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the

01:16:10humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears

01:16:17the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank they

01:16:23replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was

01:16:28good

01:16:28it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me

01:16:33as

01:16:33a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run

01:16:39up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't

01:16:46sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong

01:16:50that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i

01:16:54trusted

01:16:54most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost

01:16:59no i

01:17:00couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips

01:17:04colorless

01:17:04the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my

01:17:08bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain

01:17:14but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our

01:17:19families

01:17:20lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had

01:17:25barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the

01:17:29first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around

01:17:35like

01:17:35a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever

01:17:42back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good

01:17:47girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the

01:17:52classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i

01:17:57tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all

01:18:02night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you

01:18:06my bride

01:18:07someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought

01:18:12we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would

01:18:19look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes

01:18:25i was

01:18:25just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get

01:18:31savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the

01:18:35whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip

01:18:42instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from

01:18:48this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew

01:18:54the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming

01:19:00to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what

01:19:06everyone

01:19:06thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted two today's source of entertainment

01:19:12savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

01:19:18savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis

01:19:24comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for team savannah what's next

01:19:29for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was

01:19:38their

01:19:38entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side

01:19:47he was the one who had hurt me the most

01:19:59when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's

01:20:04football field

01:20:04students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied

01:20:10up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said she

01:20:15wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not actually

01:20:19mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently i

01:20:24guess

01:20:24my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment i transferred schools

01:20:29the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank don't be like this after

01:20:37gym class

01:20:38i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football players surrounded me leo carter the boy

01:20:43next door i'd known my whole life was leading them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the

01:20:51goal post of the football field for two whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone

01:20:58finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets

01:21:02he strolled over like he was just there to watch the show the rest of the football team his

01:21:05accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair

01:21:09flowing over her shoulders like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually

01:21:12did it that's insane the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain

01:21:18was just her entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard

01:21:25from him before me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast

01:21:29a golden

01:21:29glow on his face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i

01:21:35once

01:21:35thought would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he

01:21:40was still joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get

01:21:45her down

01:21:45he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily

01:21:49untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked

01:21:54the

01:21:54wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled

01:21:59into a blob

01:21:59like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing

01:22:04at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a

01:22:08moment i thought

01:22:09i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just

01:22:13a prank we used to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was

01:22:17just like any

01:22:17other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never

01:22:22involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him

01:22:26saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it

01:22:30wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years

01:22:35of

01:22:35friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me

01:22:40like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film

01:22:44a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make

01:22:49a

01:22:49sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories

01:22:54and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop

01:22:58being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on

01:23:02knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably

01:23:06right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home

01:23:11i went

01:23:12straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and went covering my body they

01:23:19were

01:23:19horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake

01:23:25to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't

01:23:31the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless

01:23:37words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds

01:23:42making

01:23:43me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this

01:23:47was

01:23:48real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've

01:23:54been in

01:23:54there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice

01:24:00was

01:24:00so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't

01:24:05notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell

01:24:09her that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like

01:24:13a clown

01:24:14on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess

01:24:18my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple

01:24:23red like they were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by

01:24:27bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd

01:24:33known leo

01:24:34for 16 years our families lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping

01:24:39together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his

01:24:45eyes out on the first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that

01:24:49he

01:24:50followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be

01:24:57together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was

01:25:03the good girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke

01:25:08the classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i

01:25:13tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all

01:25:18night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you

01:25:22my bride

01:25:23someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we

01:25:28were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would

01:25:35look at me seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes

01:25:41i was

01:25:41just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get

01:25:47savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the

01:25:51whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip

01:25:58instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from

01:26:03this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew

01:26:10the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming

01:26:16to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what

01:26:21everyone

01:26:22thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted two today's source of entertainment

01:26:28savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji

01:26:33savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis

01:26:39comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for team savannah what's next

01:26:45for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was

01:26:54their

01:26:54entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side

01:27:03he was the one who had hurt me the most

01:27:10my son of a razorbill but i thought i was right i was in a position but i felt like

01:27:15i tried to

01:27:15to get a shit down and i didn't get a shit down and i did let me i forgot to

01:27:15tell you

01:27:15that my body was my way out of me i thought i was going to hang out there

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