After a few weeks of getting the cold shoulder and being completely shunned from my group when Ben wasn’t around, I was finally able to get someone to open up about what was going on with everyone. Luckily, Laurel still viewed me as a friend. She and I were friends before she was friends with Libby, so I was hoping she would tell it to me straight. “Everyone seems so pissed off at me. I don’t know what’s happening,” I said to Laurel, sounding defeated. “What’s going on?” “Well” she said, hesitating, “Libby is telling everyone that you hooked up with Ben behind her back when she and Ben were still dating. She said that you threw yourself at him to get him interested in you. She claims you’re so desperate that you even sucked his d**k to lure him to you.” I was disgusted. I was

