All the people in middle school and high school that at the time I thought were my friends, only to learn in to hardest way possible again and again that I was wrong. They would throw me away like disposable trash. None of them ever even saw me as a person.

They would use me as a tool or a temporary resource for their own gain. They would do nearly anything if a situation arose that they think they could personally gain from. Sometimes they would do something purely to entertain themselves. They would socially humiliate and tell others to discard me(read: ostracize, shun). They would verbally abuse, and attempt to harm me emotionally all either publicly or privately. Then they would tell others afterwards.

Some of these people were girls. At one point one of them asked me out, for whatever the upcoming dance was. A homecoming dance I think. When I showed up to the dance I had to go find her. She was with the rest of her friends. They proceeded to mock me and make fun of me, and their words had teeth too.

After that incident I learned they had spent time beforehand convincing other students to give them any information about me that they had and that could be used against me. I only fell for this particular nonsense one other time. Two times was all that was needed though. Enough damage had been done. After the second time any time a girl tried talking to me in any context for any reason I just totally ignored them and didn't acknowledge they were speaking to me.

How terribly wrong I was to think any of them were a friend or an acquaintance. They were only pretending. It was all a mask, a front, fake. They just wanted something from me, to use or take advantage of me, to bully me for entertainment, and they were just waiting for a good enough opportunity. None of them cared. They never actually wanted to be my friend.