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📚 After being best friends with Leo Carter for 16 years, top student Eleanor Vance is devastated when he humiliates her in a cruel prank to impress the popular girl, Savannah. Heartbroken, Ellie leaves everything behind and transfers to California, where she builds a new life with genuine friends, academic success, and a caring boyfriend. As Leo is consumed by regret, Ellie discovers that some wounds are too deep to heal and some betrayals can never be undone.
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📚 After being best friends with Leo Carter for 16 years, top student Eleanor Vance is devastated when he humiliates her in a cruel prank to impress the popular girl, Savannah. Heartbroken, Ellie leaves everything behind and transfers to California, where she builds a new life with genuine friends, academic success, and a caring boyfriend. As Leo is consumed by regret, Ellie discovers that some wounds are too deep to heal and some betrayals can never be undone.
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00:00:02when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:00:07football
00:00:07field students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me
00:00:12i was tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up
00:00:17savannah said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie
00:00:22you're not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just
00:00:26stared at him silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's
00:00:30entertainment i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was
00:00:37just a prank don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when
00:00:43the football players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading
00:00:49them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two
00:00:56whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that
00:01:02same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just
00:01:06there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so
00:01:09did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every
00:01:13strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she
00:01:18couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment
00:01:22of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me
00:01:28he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on
00:01:33his face
00:01:33the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would
00:01:39protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking
00:01:44as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down he
00:01:48said it so
00:01:49casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes
00:01:53no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out
00:01:58of
00:01:58me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob
00:02:02like a
00:02:03dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at
00:02:07my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment
00:02:12i thought i saw
00:02:12a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we
00:02:17used to
00:02:17prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke
00:02:21but he
00:02:21forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating
00:02:26someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my
00:02:30throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i
00:02:34didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship
00:02:38how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that
00:02:43it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool
00:02:48halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound
00:02:52i
00:02:52just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in
00:02:57that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad
00:03:01okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i
00:03:06couldn't
00:03:06stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him
00:03:10and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight
00:03:15to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body
00:03:21they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to
00:03:27wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't
00:03:34the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin
00:03:39and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot
00:03:44water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that
00:03:49this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah
00:03:54my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey
00:03:59i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom
00:04:06must
00:04:06have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best
00:04:10i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world
00:04:14had
00:04:14betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself
00:04:19to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks
00:04:24on my wrists
00:04:24were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the
00:04:28antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the
00:04:34pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our
00:04:40parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we
00:04:45were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the
00:04:50one who
00:04:50gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me
00:04:57ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his
00:05:03smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into
00:05:08trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me
00:05:12it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give
00:05:18him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he used
00:05:23to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who would
00:05:27want to
00:05:28marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest partners
00:05:33i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say
00:05:39eleanor varse will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he
00:05:45could
00:05:45humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention he
00:05:51didn't hesitate to tie me to a goalpost to make me the laughingstock of the whole school
00:05:55to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram
00:06:01page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos
00:06:06from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the
00:06:12wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was
00:06:18coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is
00:06:24what everyone
00:06:25thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted to today's source of entertainment
00:06:31savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji
00:06:36savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis
00:06:42her comment was flooded with likes and hype
00:06:45leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next for round two i shut off my phone
00:06:52my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything
00:07:00and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt
00:07:07me the most
00:07:18when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:07:23football field
00:07:23students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was
00:07:28tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah
00:07:34said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're
00:07:38not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him
00:07:42silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment
00:07:46i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just a prank
00:07:54don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football
00:07:59players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
00:08:07leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole
00:08:12hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that
00:08:18same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just
00:08:22there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so
00:08:25did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every
00:08:29strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she
00:08:34couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment
00:08:38of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me
00:08:44he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on
00:08:49his face
00:08:49the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would
00:08:54protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still
00:08:59joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down
00:09:04he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily
00:09:08untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked
00:09:13the
00:09:13wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled
00:09:18into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of
00:09:22the
00:09:22tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second
00:09:27for a moment
00:09:28i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was
00:09:32just a prank
00:09:32we used to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like
00:09:36any other
00:09:36joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved
00:09:41humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying
00:09:45nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't
00:09:50that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of
00:09:54friendship
00:09:54how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that
00:09:59it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool
00:10:03halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound
00:10:08i
00:10:08just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in
00:10:13that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad
00:10:17okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i
00:10:22couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of
00:10:26him
00:10:26and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight
00:10:31to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body
00:10:37they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to
00:10:43wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't
00:10:50the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin
00:10:55and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot
00:11:00water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that
00:11:05this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah
00:11:10my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey
00:11:15i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom
00:11:22must
00:11:22have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best
00:11:26i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world
00:11:30had
00:11:30betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself
00:11:35to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks
00:11:40on my wrists
00:11:40were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the
00:11:44antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the
00:11:50pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our
00:11:56parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we
00:12:01were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the
00:12:06one who
00:12:06gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me
00:12:13ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his
00:12:19smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into
00:12:24trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me
00:12:28it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give
00:12:34him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he used
00:12:39to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who would
00:12:43want to
00:12:44marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest partners
00:12:49i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say
00:12:55eleanor varse will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he
00:13:01could
00:13:01humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention he
00:13:07didn't hesitate to tie me to a goalpost to make me the laughingstock of the whole school
00:13:11to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram
00:13:17page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos
00:13:22from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the
00:13:28wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was
00:13:34coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is
00:13:40what everyone
00:13:41thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted to today's source of entertainment
00:13:47savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji
00:13:52savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis
00:13:58her comment was flooded with likes and hype
00:14:01leo you're the man anything for team savannah what's next it's around two i shut off my phone
00:14:08my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything
00:14:16and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt
00:14:23me the most
00:14:34when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:14:39football field
00:14:39students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was
00:14:44tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah
00:14:50said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're
00:14:54not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him
00:14:58silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment
00:15:02i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just a prank
00:15:10don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football
00:15:15players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
00:15:23leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole
00:15:28hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that
00:15:34same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just
00:15:38there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so
00:15:41did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every
00:15:45strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she
00:15:49couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment
00:15:54of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me
00:16:00he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on
00:16:04his face
00:16:05the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would
00:16:10protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still
00:16:15joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down
00:16:20he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily
00:16:24untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked
00:16:29the
00:16:29wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled
00:16:33into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of
00:16:38the
00:16:38tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second
00:16:43for a moment
00:16:43i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was
00:16:48just a prank
00:16:48we used to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like
00:16:52any other
00:16:52joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved
00:16:57humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying
00:17:01nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't
00:17:05that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of
00:17:10friendship
00:17:10how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that
00:17:15it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool
00:17:19halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound
00:17:24i
00:17:24just gave leo one last look and that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in
00:17:29that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad
00:17:33okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i
00:17:37couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of
00:17:42him
00:17:42and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight
00:17:47to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body
00:17:53they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to
00:17:59wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't
00:18:06the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin
00:18:11and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot
00:18:16water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that
00:18:21this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah
00:18:26my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey
00:18:31i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom
00:18:38must
00:18:38have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best
00:18:41i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world
00:18:46had
00:18:46betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself
00:18:51to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks
00:18:56on my
00:18:56wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out
00:19:00the
00:19:00antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the
00:19:06pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our
00:19:12parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we
00:19:17were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the
00:19:21one who
00:19:22gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me
00:19:29ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his
00:19:35smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into
00:19:40trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me
00:19:44it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give
00:19:50him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he used
00:19:55to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who would
00:19:59want to
00:19:59marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest partners
00:20:05i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say
00:20:11eleanor varse will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he
00:20:17could
00:20:17humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention he
00:20:23didn't hesitate to tie me to a goalpost to make me the laughingstock of the whole school
00:20:27to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram
00:20:33page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos
00:20:38from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the
00:20:44wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what
00:20:50was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this
00:20:56is what
00:20:56everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted too today's source of
00:21:02entertainment savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added
00:21:07a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three
00:21:13blushing emojis her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen
00:21:19savannah what's next for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so
00:21:28my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would
00:21:35always be on my side he was the one who had hurt me the most
00:21:50when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:21:54football field
00:21:55students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktok and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied
00:22:00up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said she
00:22:06wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not actually
00:22:10mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently i
00:22:15guess my
00:22:15dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment i transferred schools
00:22:20the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just a prank don't be like this
00:22:27after gym
00:22:28class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football players surrounded me leo carter
00:22:33the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to
00:22:41the goal post of the football field for two whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by
00:22:47everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean
00:22:52pockets he strolled over like he was just there to watch the show the rest of the football team his
00:22:56accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair
00:22:59flowing over her shoulders like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did
00:23:03it that's insane the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was
00:23:09just
00:23:09her entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from
00:23:15him before me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a
00:23:20golden glow
00:23:20on his face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once
00:23:26thought
00:23:26would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still
00:23:31joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down
00:23:36he said it
00:23:36so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes
00:23:41no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out
00:23:45of
00:23:45me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob
00:23:50like
00:23:50a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at
00:23:55my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment
00:23:59i thought i saw
00:24:00a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we
00:24:04used to
00:24:05prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke
00:24:09but he
00:24:09forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating
00:24:13someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my
00:24:17throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i
00:24:22didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how
00:24:26do
00:24:27you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy
00:24:31his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween
00:24:36prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i
00:24:40just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and
00:24:45in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being
00:24:49mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but
00:24:53i
00:24:53couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of
00:24:57him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight
00:25:03to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were
00:25:09horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the
00:25:15milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't
00:25:22the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless
00:25:28words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds
00:25:33making
00:25:33me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this
00:25:38was
00:25:38real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've
00:25:44been in
00:25:45there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice
00:25:51was
00:25:51so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice
00:25:56anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that
00:26:00the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown
00:26:04on the school's
00:26:05goal post no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face
00:26:09was pale
00:26:10my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep and a sickening shade of purple red like they were
00:26:14carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing
00:26:20pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years
00:26:25our
00:26:26families lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads
00:26:31had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the
00:26:36first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around
00:26:42like
00:26:42a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever
00:26:48back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good
00:26:54girl
00:26:54who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the
00:26:58classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i
00:27:04tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all
00:27:09night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you
00:27:13my bride
00:27:13someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought
00:27:18we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would
00:27:25look at me seriously and say eleanor varse will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes
00:27:31i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave
00:27:37to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing
00:27:41stock of the whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's
00:27:48gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos
00:27:54from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew
00:28:00the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming
00:28:06to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what
00:28:12everyone
00:28:12thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted too today's source of entertainment
00:28:19savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji
00:28:24savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her
00:28:30comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next
00:28:36you're for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain
00:28:45was their
00:28:45entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my
00:28:52side he was the one who had hurt me the most
00:29:06when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:29:10football field
00:29:11students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was
00:29:16tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah
00:29:21said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're
00:29:26not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him
00:29:30silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment
00:29:34i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just
00:29:41a prank don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the
00:29:47football players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
00:29:54leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours
00:30:01leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky
00:30:06smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there to
00:30:10watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna
00:30:13miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every strand
00:30:17of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she couldn't
00:30:21hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment of course savannah asks
00:30:28savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me he walked up to the
00:30:33goal post
00:30:33and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on his face the features were so familiar
00:30:38but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would protect me forever now only
00:30:44held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking as if i wasn't a person
00:30:49but a
00:30:49toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down he said it so casually like he was commenting
00:30:54on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt
00:30:58i
00:30:58crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had
00:31:03collapsed
00:31:03every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped
00:31:08the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw
00:31:12my
00:31:13red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i saw a flicker of regret i
00:31:17thought he
00:31:17would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to prank each other all the
00:31:21time he
00:31:22said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but he forgot our old pranks never
00:31:26involved
00:31:27destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people
00:31:31they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with
00:31:35cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know
00:31:39what
00:31:39to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare
00:31:45made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt
00:31:49savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal
00:31:54you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was
00:31:5816 years of
00:31:59friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey
00:32:03eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but
00:32:07firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would
00:32:11break down i would sob unconsolably right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost
00:32:15lost everything when i got home i went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw
00:32:22the bruises
00:32:23and wentz covering my body they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin
00:32:29over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every
00:32:35trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled
00:32:42on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse
00:32:47the hot
00:32:48water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that
00:32:53this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom
00:32:58knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned
00:33:03off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have
00:33:10gone to
00:33:10her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to
00:33:14explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed
00:33:18me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to
00:33:23say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on
00:33:28my wrists
00:33:28were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the
00:33:32antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to
00:33:37the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street
00:33:43our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were
00:33:49in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the one
00:33:53who
00:33:54gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me
00:34:00ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his
00:34:07smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into
00:34:12trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me
00:34:16it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give
00:34:22him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he
00:34:26used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who
00:34:31would
00:34:31want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest
00:34:36partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say
00:34:43eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he
00:34:49could
00:34:49humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention
00:34:54he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the whole school
00:34:58to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page
00:35:05they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon
00:35:11in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew the comments
00:35:17were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to her
00:35:23mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what everyone thought
00:35:29of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted to today's source of entertainment savannah
00:35:35are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah
00:35:41replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her comment
00:35:46was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next
00:35:52around two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their
00:36:01entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always
00:36:07be on my side he was the one who had hurt me the most
00:36:22when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:36:26football field
00:36:27students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was
00:36:32tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah
00:36:37said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're
00:36:41not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him
00:36:46silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment
00:36:50i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just a prank
00:36:57don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football
00:37:03players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
00:37:10leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours
00:37:17leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky
00:37:22smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there
00:37:26to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did
00:37:29sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every
00:37:32strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement
00:37:37she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment
00:37:42of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me
00:37:48he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on
00:37:52his face
00:37:53the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought
00:37:58would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still
00:38:03joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down
00:38:08he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied
00:38:12the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked
00:38:17the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i
00:38:21curled into
00:38:21a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the
00:38:26tape
00:38:26tearing at my skin made me gasped when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for
00:38:31a moment
00:38:31i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was
00:38:35just a prank we used to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this
00:38:39was just like
00:38:40any other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never
00:38:44involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him
00:38:49saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it
00:38:53wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years
00:38:57of
00:38:58friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look
00:39:02at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted
00:39:06to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i
00:39:11didn't
00:39:11make a sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy
00:39:16memories and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going
00:39:20stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on
00:39:25knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably
00:39:29right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home
00:39:34i
00:39:34went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wents covering my body
00:39:41they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash
00:39:47off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't
00:39:53the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless
00:40:00words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds
00:40:05making
00:40:05me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this
00:40:10was
00:40:10real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've
00:40:16been in
00:40:16there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice
00:40:23was
00:40:23so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice
00:40:27anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that
00:40:32the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown
00:40:36on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess
00:40:41my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple
00:40:45red like they were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by
00:40:50bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd
00:40:56known
00:40:56leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our parents were old friends our moms went
00:41:01shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten
00:41:06he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the one who gave him a piece of
00:41:10chocolate
00:41:11after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this
00:41:18ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was
00:41:24the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into trouble i covered him
00:41:29when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me it was him practicing his
00:41:34baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously
00:41:39organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're
00:41:43the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to marry you
00:41:48but
00:41:48secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest partners i even secretly
00:41:54hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say eleanor varse will you
00:42:01be my
00:42:01girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted
00:42:06just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me
00:42:12to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the whole school to trample all over my dignity
00:42:17my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on
00:42:23it
00:42:23mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like
00:42:29a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing
00:42:35crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like
00:42:42a slap in the face so this is what everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo
00:42:48had posted
00:42:48too today's source of entertainment savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post
00:42:54he even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding
00:42:59around followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man
00:43:06anything for queen savannah what's next for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow
00:43:13empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person
00:43:22i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt me the most
00:43:38when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:43:42football field
00:43:43students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied up
00:43:48in
00:43:48front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said she wanted
00:43:54to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not actually mad
00:43:58are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently i guess
00:44:03my
00:44:03dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment i transferred schools
00:44:08the next day and leo lost his fucking mind please ellie it was just a prank don't be like this
00:44:15after
00:44:16gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football players surrounded me leo
00:44:21carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them leo knocked me unconscious and tied me
00:44:29to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by
00:44:35everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his
00:44:40jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there to watch the show the rest of the football
00:44:43team his accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her
00:44:47long hair flowing over her shoulders like every strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys
00:44:50actually did it that's insane the excitement she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold
00:44:55so my pain was just her entertainment of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had
00:45:02never heard from him before me he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting
00:45:07sun cast
00:45:07a golden glow on his face the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger
00:45:12the eyes i once thought would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up
00:45:17there ellie he was still joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's
00:45:22over
00:45:23let's get her down he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his
00:45:27teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass
00:45:32the impact knocked the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my
00:45:36body
00:45:36ached i curled into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face
00:45:41the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he
00:45:46paused for
00:45:46a second for a moment i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are
00:45:50you
00:45:50crying for it was just a prank we used to prank each other all the time he said it so
00:45:54lightly as if this
00:45:55was just like any other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they
00:46:00never involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel
00:46:04i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single
00:46:08word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you
00:46:12question
00:46:1316 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't
00:46:18look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she
00:46:22wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but
00:46:27i
00:46:27didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless
00:46:31happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you
00:46:36going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like
00:46:40walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob
00:46:44uncontrollably
00:46:45right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home
00:46:50i went
00:46:50straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and went covering my body they
00:46:57were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off
00:47:03the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't
00:47:09the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless
00:47:16words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds
00:47:21making
00:47:21me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this
00:47:26was
00:47:26real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've
00:47:32been in
00:47:32there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice
00:47:38was
00:47:39so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice
00:47:43anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that
00:47:48the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown
00:47:52on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a
00:47:56mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of
00:48:01purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them
00:48:05bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16
00:48:10years
00:48:11i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our parents were old friends
00:48:16our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same class
00:48:21since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the one who gave him a
00:48:26piece
00:48:26of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have
00:48:33this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure
00:48:39he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into trouble i
00:48:44covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me it was him
00:48:49practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd give him all
00:48:54my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself he used to say
00:48:59ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say who would want to
00:49:03marry
00:49:03you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest partners i
00:49:09even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say eleanor varse
00:49:16will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he could humiliate
00:49:21whenever
00:49:21he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie
00:49:27me to a goal post to make me the laughing stock of the whole school to trample all over my
00:49:32dignity
00:49:33my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page they had a new post i clicked on
00:49:39it
00:49:39mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon in the video i was hanging there
00:49:45like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew the comments were filled with lols and laughing
00:49:51crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like
00:49:58a slap in the face so this is what everyone thought of me i closed instagram on his story leo
00:50:04had posted
00:50:04two today's source of entertainment savannah are you satisfied the picture was of me tied to the
00:50:10post he even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you guys are so bad i was just kidding
00:50:15around followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded with likes and hype leo you're the man
00:50:22anything for queen savannah what's next for round two i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow
00:50:29empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything and leo the one person
00:50:38i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt me the most
00:50:54when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
00:50:58football field
00:50:59students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was
00:51:04tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah
00:51:09said she wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're
00:51:13not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him
00:51:17silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's
00:51:21entertainment i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a
00:51:29prank don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the
00:51:34football players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
00:51:42leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours
00:51:49leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky
00:51:54smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there
00:51:58to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did
00:52:01sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every
00:52:04strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she
00:52:09couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment of course
00:52:14savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me he walked up
00:52:20to
00:52:20the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on his face the features
00:52:25were so
00:52:26familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would protect me forever now
00:52:31only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking as if i wasn't a
00:52:36person but a
00:52:37toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down he said it so casually like he was commenting
00:52:42on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt
00:52:46i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs
00:52:50had
00:52:51collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and
00:52:56ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he
00:53:00saw my red
00:53:00swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought
00:53:05he would
00:53:05apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to prank each other all the time
00:53:09he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but he forgot our old pranks
00:53:14never
00:53:14involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds
00:53:18of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like it was
00:53:22stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just
00:53:27didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal into
00:53:31words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave
00:53:36away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought
00:53:40it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last
00:53:45look in that
00:53:45look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his
00:53:50voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were
00:53:54shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid
00:53:59i would
00:53:59break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him and if that happened i would have
00:54:02truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes
00:54:10i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water
00:54:16scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to
00:54:22wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious
00:54:29stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind
00:54:34like a curse the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me
00:54:39lucid it
00:54:40reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress
00:54:44savannah
00:54:45my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey
00:54:50i
00:54:51turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must
00:54:57have
00:54:57gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't
00:55:01want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed
00:55:06me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself to
00:55:11say it
00:55:11the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on my wrists
00:55:16were deep
00:55:16in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the antiseptic and
00:55:20started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared to the pain in
00:55:26my
00:55:26heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same street our parents were
00:55:32old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends we were in the same
00:55:37class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was the one who gave him
00:55:42a
00:55:42piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie wait for me ellie
00:55:49you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were so bright his
00:55:54smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when he got into
00:55:59trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me
00:56:04it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd
00:56:09give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself
00:56:14he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say
00:56:18who
00:56:19would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest
00:56:24partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say
00:56:31eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he
00:56:36could
00:56:37humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention
00:56:42he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goalpost to make me the laughing stock of the whole school
00:56:46to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page
00:56:53they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon
00:56:58in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew the comments
00:57:05were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to her
00:57:10mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what everyone thought
00:57:16of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted too today's source of entertainment savannah are you
00:57:23satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied
00:57:29you guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded
00:57:35with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next you're for round two
00:57:40i shut off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my
00:57:50dignity was their plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the
00:57:58one
00:57:58who had hurt me the most when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to
00:58:13the goal post on the
00:58:14school's football field students walking by laughed at me filmed tick tocks and someone even threw a
00:58:18milkshake at me i was tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo
00:58:24finally
00:58:24showed up savannah said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little
00:58:28joke ellie you're not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just
00:58:33stared at him silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's
00:58:37i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank
00:58:46don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football
00:58:51players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
00:58:58leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole
00:59:03hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that
00:59:09same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just
00:59:13there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did
00:59:17sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every
00:59:20strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement
00:59:25she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment
00:59:29of course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me
00:59:36he walked up to the goal post and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on
00:59:40his face
00:59:40the features were so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought
00:59:46would protect me forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still
00:59:50joking as if i wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down
00:59:55he said it so casually like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily
01:00:00untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked
01:00:04the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i
01:00:09curled
01:00:09into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain
01:00:13of the tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for
01:00:18a second
01:00:18for a moment i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying
01:00:23for it was just a prank we used to prank each other all the time he said it so lightly
01:00:26as if this was
01:00:27just like any other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity
01:00:31they never involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel
01:00:35i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a
01:00:39single word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do
01:00:44you
01:00:44question 16 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable
01:00:49don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she
01:00:54wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but
01:00:59i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship
01:01:03countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where
01:01:07you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like
01:01:12walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob
01:01:16uncontrollably
01:01:16right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home
01:01:21i
01:01:22went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and went covering my body
01:01:28they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off
01:01:35the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't
01:01:41the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin
01:01:46and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water
01:01:52sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this
01:01:57wasn't
01:01:57a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah
01:02:01my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey
01:02:06i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom
01:02:13must
01:02:13have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best
01:02:17i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world
01:02:21had
01:02:21betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself
01:02:26to
01:02:27say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks on
01:02:31my wrists
01:02:31were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out the
01:02:36antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing compared
01:02:41to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the same
01:02:46street
01:02:47our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on weekends
01:02:52we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i was
01:02:57the
01:02:57one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie
01:03:03wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were
01:03:09so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when
01:03:15he
01:03:15got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it was me
01:03:20it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams i'd
01:03:25give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for myself
01:03:30he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and say
01:03:34who
01:03:34would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends the closest
01:03:40partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me seriously and say
01:03:46eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was just a toy he
01:03:52could
01:03:52humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get savannah's attention
01:03:58he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goalpost to make me the laughing stock of the whole school
01:04:02to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip instagram page
01:04:09they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from this afternoon
01:04:14in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew the comments
01:04:21were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to her
01:04:26mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what everyone thought
01:04:32of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted too today's source of entertainment savannah are you
01:04:39satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeep emoji savannah replied you
01:04:45guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded with
01:04:51likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next around two i shut off my phone
01:04:59my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything
01:05:07and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt
01:05:15me the most
01:05:21the one who had hurt me when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to
01:05:29the goal post on the
01:05:30school's football field students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a
01:05:34milkshake at me i was tied up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo
01:05:39finally
01:05:40showed up savannah said she wanted to see a real life horror movie prank so we just played a little
01:05:44joke ellie you're not actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just
01:05:49stared at him silently i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's
01:05:53entertainment i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a
01:06:01prank don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football
01:06:07players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
01:06:14leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goalpost of the football field for two whole
01:06:19hours leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that
01:06:25same cocky smirk he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just
01:06:29there to watch the show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so
01:06:32did sienna miller she was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every
01:06:36strand of her hair was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement
01:06:40she couldn't hide in her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment of
01:06:46course savannah asks savannah gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me he walked
01:06:52up to the goalpost and looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on his face the
01:06:57features were
01:06:57so familiar but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would protect me
01:07:02forever now only held mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking as if i
01:07:07wasn't a person but a toy all right all right joke's over let's get her down he said it so
01:07:12casually
01:07:12like he was commenting on the weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one
01:07:17cared if i would get hurt i crashed hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out of me
01:07:21and i
01:07:21felt like my lungs had collapsed every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like a dying
01:07:26insect
01:07:26leo crouched down and ripped the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made
01:07:31me
01:07:31gasp when he saw my red swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i saw
01:07:35a flicker of
01:07:36regret i thought he would apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to prank
01:07:40each other all the time he said it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but
01:07:44he forgot
01:07:45our old pranks never involved destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone
01:07:49in front of hundreds of people they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat
01:07:53felt like it was stuffed with cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't
01:07:57want to speak i just didn't know what to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do
01:08:02you
01:08:02put this betrayal into words my stare made him uncomfortable don't look at me like that
01:08:06it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah said yesterday she wanted to film a cool
01:08:11halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal you're fine right but i didn't make a sound
01:08:15i just gave leo one last look in that look was 16 years of friendship countless happy memories and in
01:08:20that moment it was over heard his voice behind hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad
01:08:24okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i
01:08:29couldn't
01:08:29stop if i stopped i was afraid i would break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him
01:08:33and if that happened i would have truly lost lost everything when i got home i went straight to the
01:08:38bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw the bruises and wentz covering my body they were horrifying i
01:08:46stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash
01:08:52off the humiliation trying to wash away every trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still
01:08:58echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a
01:09:04prank they replayed in my mind like a curse the hot water sting my wounds making me shiver but the
01:09:10pain
01:09:10was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that this wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did
01:09:15use
01:09:15me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked on the door ellie you've been in there a while
01:09:21don't
01:09:21run up the water bill honey i turned off the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it
01:09:28didn't
01:09:28sound like my own mom must have gone to her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong
01:09:32that was for the best i didn't want to explain how could i explain tell her that the person i
01:09:36trusted
01:09:36most in the world had betrayed me tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost
01:09:41no i
01:09:42couldn't bring myself to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips
01:09:46colorless
01:09:46the marks on my wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my
01:09:50bones i took out the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it
01:09:56was
01:09:56nothing compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on
01:10:02the same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues
01:10:07on weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first
01:10:12day and i was the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like
01:10:17a
01:10:17little shadow ellie wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then
01:10:25leo's eyes were so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who
01:10:29always listened when he got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom
01:10:34window i said it was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him
01:10:40before final exams i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making
01:10:45a new set for myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride
01:10:49someday
01:10:49i'd blush and say who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were
01:10:54best friends the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look
01:11:01at me seriously and say eleanor varse will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i
01:11:07was
01:11:07just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get
01:11:13savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goalpost to make me the laughingstock of the
01:11:17whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip
01:11:24instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from
01:11:30this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew
01:11:36the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to
01:11:42her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what everyone
01:11:48thought
01:11:48of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted two today's source of entertainment savannah are you
01:11:55satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you
01:12:01guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded
01:12:07with likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next for round two i shut
01:12:13off my phone my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was
01:12:23their
01:12:23plaything and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had
01:12:30hurt me the most
01:12:41when i woke up i was a prop in their prank zip tied to the goal post on the school's
01:12:46football field
01:12:46students walking by laughed at me filmed tiktoks and someone even threw a milkshake at me i was tied
01:12:52up in front of everyone for two whole hours when my best friend leo finally showed up savannah said
01:12:57she wanted to see a real-life horror movie prank so we just played a little joke ellie you're not
01:13:01actually mad are you we grew up together you know me better than anyone i just stared at him silently
01:13:06i guess my dignity was just something to be sacrificed for someone else's entertainment
01:13:10i transferred schools the next day and leo lost his mind please ellie it was just a prank
01:13:18don't be like this after gym class i was just walking out of the equipment room when the football
01:13:22players surrounded me leo carter the boy next door i'd known my whole life was leading them
01:13:30leo knocked me unconscious and tied me to the goal post of the football field for two whole hours
01:13:36leaving me to be watched and mocked by everyone finally leo arrived he still had that same cocky smirk
01:13:42he always wore hands shoved in his jean pockets he strolled over like he was just there to watch the
01:13:46show the rest of the football team his accomplices followed behind him and so did sienna miller she
01:13:49was wearing a pink sundress her long hair flowing over her shoulders like every strand of her hair
01:13:53was glowing oh my god you guys actually did it that's insane the excitement she couldn't hide in
01:13:57her voice made my blood run cold so my pain was just her entertainment of course savannah asks savannah
01:14:04gets it was a gentle tone i had never heard from him before me he walked up to the goal
01:14:08post and
01:14:09looked up at me the setting sun cast a golden glow on his face the features were so familiar
01:14:14but right now he was a complete stranger the eyes i once thought would protect me forever now only held
01:14:19mockery so how's the view from up there ellie he was still joking as if i wasn't a person but
01:14:24a toy
01:14:25all right all right joke's over let's get her down he said it so casually like he was commenting on
01:14:30the
01:14:30weather a couple of his teammates clumsily untied the ropes no one cared if i would get hurt i crashed
01:14:34hard onto the grass the impact knocked the wind out of me and i felt like my lungs had collapsed
01:14:39every bone in my body ached i curled into a blob like a dying insect leo crouched down and ripped
01:14:44the bandage off my face the pain of the tape tearing at my skin made me gasp when he saw
01:14:48my red
01:14:48swollen eyes he paused for a second for a moment i thought i saw a flicker of regret i thought
01:14:53he would
01:14:53apologize what are you crying for it was just a prank we used to prank each other all the time
01:14:57he said
01:14:58it so lightly as if this was just like any other joke but he forgot our old pranks never involved
01:15:02destroying someone's dignity they never involved humiliating someone in front of hundreds of people
01:15:06they were never this cruel i stared at him saying nothing my throat felt like it was stuffed with
01:15:10cotton i couldn't get a single word out it wasn't that i didn't want to speak i just didn't know
01:15:15what
01:15:15to say how do you question 16 years of friendship how do you put this betrayal into words my stare
01:15:20made
01:15:20him uncomfortable don't look at me like that it's creepy his darting eyes gave away his guilt savannah
01:15:25said yesterday she wanted to film a cool halloween prank video so we thought it's not a big deal
01:15:29you're fine right but i didn't make a sound i just gave leo one last look in that look was
01:15:3316 years
01:15:34of friendship countless happy memories and in that moment it was over heard his voice behind
01:15:38hey eleanor vance where are you going stop being mad okay i didn't turn back my steps were shaky
01:15:42but firm every step felt like walking on knives but i couldn't stop if i stopped i was afraid i
01:15:46would
01:15:47break down i would sob uncontrollably right in front of him and if that happened i would have truly lost
01:15:51lost everything when i got home i went straight to the bathroom as i took off my clothes i saw
01:15:58the bruises and
01:15:59wentz covering my body they were horrifying i stood under the scalding water scrubbing my skin
01:16:04over and over trying to wash off the milkshake to wash off the humiliation trying to wash away every
01:16:11trace of leo but i couldn't the laughter still echoed in my ears the malicious stares still crawled
01:16:18on my skin and leo's careless words it was just a prank they replayed in my mind like a curse
01:16:23the hot
01:16:23water sting my wounds making me shiver but the pain was good it kept me lucid it reminded me that
01:16:28this
01:16:28wasn't a nightmare this was real leo really did use me as a toy to impress savannah my mom knocked
01:16:34on the door ellie you've been in there a while don't run up the water bill honey i turned off
01:16:39the shower coming out now my voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like my own mom must have gone
01:16:45to
01:16:45her book club because she didn't notice anything was wrong that was for the best i didn't want to
01:16:49explain how could i explain tell her that the person i trusted most in the world had betrayed me
01:16:54tell her i was tied up like a clown on the school's goalpost no i couldn't bring myself
01:16:58to say it the girl in the mirror was a mess my face was pale my lips colorless the marks
01:17:03on my
01:17:03wrists were deep in a sickening shade of purple red like they were carved into my bones i took out
01:17:07the antiseptic and started cleaning them bit by bit it hurt a piercing pain but it was nothing
01:17:12compared to the pain in my heart 16 years i'd known leo for 16 years our families lived on the
01:17:18same street our parents were old friends our moms went shopping together our dads had barbecues on
01:17:23weekends we were in the same class since kindergarten he cried his eyes out on the first day and i
01:17:28was
01:17:28the one who gave him a piece of chocolate after that he followed me around like a little shadow ellie
01:17:35wait for me ellie you can have this ellie we're gonna be together forever back then leo's eyes were
01:17:41so bright his smile so pure he was the troublemaker and i was the good girl who always listened when
01:17:47he
01:17:47got into trouble i covered him when the teacher asked who broke the classroom window i said it
01:17:51was me it was him practicing his baseball swing he hated studying so i tutored him before final exams
01:17:57i'd give him all my meticulously organized notes then i'd stay up all night making a new set for
01:18:01myself he used to say ellie you're the best i'm going to make you my bride someday i'd blush and
01:18:06say
01:18:06who would want to marry you but secretly my heart would flutter i thought we were best friends
01:18:11the closest partners i even secretly hoped for more i hoped that one day he would look at me
01:18:17seriously and say eleanor vars will you be my girlfriend but it turned out in his eyes i was
01:18:23just a toy he could humiliate whenever he wanted just a backup plan who would never leave to get
01:18:29savannah's attention he didn't hesitate to tie me to a goalpost to make me the laughing stock of the
01:18:33whole school to trample all over my dignity my phone buzzed non-stop it was the school's gossip
01:18:39instagram page they had a new post i clicked on it mechanically someone had uploaded the videos from
01:18:45this afternoon in the video i was hanging there like a broken doll swaying every time the wind blew
01:18:52the comments were filled with lols and laughing crying emojis i'm dead eleanor got what was coming to
01:18:58her mummy of the year lol every comment felt like a slap in the face so this is what everyone
01:19:04thought
01:19:04of me i closed instagram on his story leo had posted two today's source of entertainment savannah are you
01:19:11satisfied the picture was of me tied to the post he even added a clown jeeping emoji savannah replied you
01:19:17guys are so bad i was just kidding around followed by three blushing emojis her comment was flooded with
01:19:23likes and hype leo you're the man anything for queen savannah what's next if around two i shut off my
01:19:29phone
01:19:31my heart felt like a hollow empty space so my pain was their entertainment my dignity was their plaything
01:19:39and leo the one person i thought would always be on my side he was the one who had hurt
01:19:46me the most
01:19:55one of the best way is that was a bad man helping me to lose me i thought it was
01:19:55a bad man it was a bad man
01:19:56so it was one of the best emotions that i felt that he felt like he fought for in the
01:19:56live
01:19:56day and he could be wearing me and he could wear me wearing you in a spot you know what
01:19:57i mean so what i meant
01:19:57of what i'm saying to you i'm gonna be trying to be a bad man because i'm still a bad
01:19:57man