A girl I went to school with
told me, in her first week at the school in year 2, that her mum had just had a little baby girl, but her brother was beating up this baby, with it being sent to hospital pretty much every day, before her brother finally killed this baby when it was 11 days old. As every decent six-year-old would do, I went to apologise to her mum, though she was discouraging me all she could. It turned out her brother (who was older than her) had very severe cerebral palsy, and had never been able to walk or even speak, let alone murder a fictional baby.

The lies carried on - she'd lie to her mum (when she wasn't being left at home alone for four or five days in the holidays aged 8 or 9 when her mum went away) until she was so upset about these things that this girl would move in with her dad, whom she would piss off by lying to him and her stepmother, and when it got unbearable for them she'd move back with her mother, who'd forgiven her. This carried on for about four years, with her playing her friends off against each other all the time too.

I stopped talking to her the second I left school and didn't have to see her every day (it's difficult to ignore someone when there's 24 people in your entire year). According to facebook, she got married at 19 last October to a boy she'd known for about six months. I feel so sorry for him, as I'm fairly sure he can't know what she was like during the ten years I knew her or the five I counted her as my best friend.
(epinephrine, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 13:46, 3 replies)

Do worry
the guy will end up posting here the next time they put up a sad Emo question about relationships.
(waxdart hello., Thu 13 Jan 2011, 14:00, closed)

'Emo'
I haven't heard that term since 2008........
( industrial_bunny, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 14:06, closed)

You must have been in a hole since then
As it's one of the most upcoming words in Google Trends for 2011 and was even said by the Queen in the last Christmas Day Speech. I know cos I wrote it. The Prime Miniter uses it every day and they are even making a film about Emo's but not with Rod Hull or Sooty or Sweep.
(Wagane, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 1:42, closed)