I couldn’t take it anymore. Every day, the sight of the two of them made me want to puke. Our communication gradually decreased until we didn’t even acknowledge each other. The kid I grew up with, my best friend, the one who promised to be the Best Man at my wedding, the one who would always assure me that I wasn’t fat or ugly or stupid, the kid who would play with my bracelets and rings when he was bored, the kid I spent half my childhood with, became a stranger to me. Texts deleted, slates wiped. It was as though we had never existed to each other in the first place.