Everyone has that one person that changed their life. It could be someone special or someone you look up to. But in my case, it was my ex-girlfriend. I don’t know if it’s just me but I think everyone’s first relationship is a learning experience. She was my first ever girlfriend. High school is a phase you want someone special like a girlfriend or boyfriend. That was me in 10th grade. I never saw this girl face to face. But she was close friends with my friend. My friend posted a snap of her on Snapchat. The moment I saw her snap I was shocked. Beautiful eyes, long hair, sharp dimples I couldn’t stop picturing her. I always thought girls in my school were ugly, I never found anyone cute or beautiful. But when I saw that snap of her I found her extremely cute. I immediately texted my friend and asked her who she is and if she even goes to our school. When she told me she went to our school I was baffled. This beautiful girl goes to my school and I have never seen her before. I asked for her snap and I texted her. She was a shy girl. I like shy girls but they barely text. That didn’t stop me though. I continued to try to make her feel comfortable so she wouldn’t feel shy to text. So, we started playing a game called 21 questions to get to know each other better. Her birthday was next week. I didn’t know what to do. Mind you this was my first time trying to get a girlfriend. Therefore, I planned out to propose to her to be my girlfriend on her birthday. Worst idea I’ve ever made. On July 1st at midnight, I text her with some cringe paragraph asking her to be my girlfriend. But somehow she said yes. This was our first relationship. This relationship didn’t even last for a week. We broke up and continued with our life. The whole summer we did our thing and school was around the corner. School started and she talked about me to her friends and I did the same. Both of our friend groups told us to try to talk again. What’s crazy is, the day I was gonna text her she texted me. We began to talk a lot more. Something I learned from proposing to her before was to not rush things and get to know her really well. I took my time and texted her a lot. We began to have feelings for each other. But I didn’t know when to ask her out because I didn’t want to rush anything. She couldn’t wait anymore, so she told one of her friends that she was waiting for me to ask her to be my girlfriend. Her friend told me and I immediately texted her asking if she wanted to meet up. We met up the next day and we had a small date. On the way to drop her off home, I turned to her and looked her straight in the eyes, and gave her a kiss. She was baffled, I asked her if she wanted to be my girlfriend and she said yes. This was one of the happiest moments of my life. From that day on we were together. We were both new to this girlfriend and boyfriend thing but we still managed. As time went by both of us loved each other more and more. I learned new things about her each and every day. What she would look good in, what her favorite foods are, what causes her to get mad at me, things I do that would annoy her, I can go on. The bond both of us had was crazy. Something that I loved about her was that she would always push me to do my work. I really used to hate reading books but she was a reading addict. She read every Harry Potter and Percy Jackson book like 10 times. She made me start reading with her. This helped me get better at writing my essays and made me more interested in books. We would read together on facetime for hours and it would be so fun. We used to meet up after school every day and on weekends we would go on dates. On our 6 month anniversary, I gave her a promise ring at Central Park promising her I would always be with her and will always make her happy. But between those 6 months, we did have some problems. Her father found out about our relationship and it was tough to see her and text her. But that still didn’t stop us. Our relationship felt like a never-ending bond. A year went by and It didn’t feel like it at all. It still felt like we just met each other. But a couple of months later we started getting into lots of arguments. We tried to fix it like how we used to before when we would but it would work. It was tough for both of us. And we had to end it. She dramatically changed my life. I’ve never been that happy before but everything has an end to it or it wasn’t meant to be. She changed me into the person I am right now. I’ve learned what to do and what not to do to make someone happy. The main thing I learned was not to rely on someone for happiness. Before we broke up I would think to myself, how would I live without someone being next to me. But that wasn’t true, after the break up I distracted myself and kept myself busy. I worked a lot and met new people. Sometimes going through something tough will give you a better result than you anticipate

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