This will be one of the more important topics of this book, in my opinion. It's also a good time to talk about this while it's fresh in my mind.

I'll also use fake names for this too. The girl will be named Madison, and the boy will be named Gabriel.

Also, I think this will be more of a vent (for me personally) than a talk, but it's still a good one to talk about. So don't be afraid to listen.

I dated Madison, and it overall was a good relationship. We laughed, created memories, had those cute moments and all...

But I made some mistakes during those times, so we broke up in the end. I was being stupid, so yeah, I deserved it. Pretty normal ending, I suppose.

But as months passed after the break-up, she told her friend Gabriel about the whole thing. Me and Gabriel were pretty good friends, before he started to lie to me about some things, so I stopped talking to him.

Now listen, me and Gabriel haven't talked in months. No "Hello, how are you?" No "Hi, how's school?"

Nothing.

He texts me, basically cursing me out for making those mistakes. Going off on me for doing such wrong things.

Okay, okay, I know what you're probably thinking, but hear me out on this, please.

Sometimes people just need to accept the fact that everyone makes mistakes. I'm not perfect, and neither is anyone else for that matter. You can't force someone to be 100% all the freaking time. Only that person can try to do that. I get it, I messed up. I promised her that I wouldn't do it again. But it's wrong to shove it all back in my face as I'm trying my best to forget it ever happened. If you can't forgive me, don't even talk to me then. I'm honestly fine with it. Just leave me alone, block me if you have too. It'll be good for me as it would've been her. I have my friends that'll support me, and so will her. At least I owned up to my mistake, but she AND Gabriel needed to be mature enough to accept the fact that I actually owned up to it. I wasn't one of those guys that dropped her off the side of the curb before we even had the chance to talk about it. Hell, I INITIATED the conversation (with Madison about the break up), because I knew that it was the right thing to do. But I see how she wanted to be. She wanted to spit it at me. I guessed I deserved it, though.

Let me just go back to the part about shoving it back in my face.

It is wrong to shove it back in my face like Gabriel did. And he doesn't think that I'm trying to forget all of those things? After months passed since the break up?

And like I said before, I know I messed up, and I owned up to it. In my opinion, that was at least a mature thing to do.

Anyway, let's touch more on the trusting others part. The reason why I'm combining this was because they connect.

Gabriel lied to me, so that was the reason why he lost my trust. I stopped talking to him, and I ended up blocking him after the spaz he had about the mistake I made.

He lied to me about some stuff that changed my personality and basically my outlook on life. I trusted him.

But hey, thanks to another good friend of mine, my eyes opened to the truth, and Gabriel lost my trust. I had to cut off all communication with him, because it was that bad.

Trust played a huge role in this whole ordeal, and guys, the lesson that needs to be taken out of this, is just tell the damn truth. I know it may hurt to do it sometimes, but I at least owned up to my mistake and told the truth about it. I didn't hide it from Madison, and she wanted to tell the whole world that I'm just a horrible person for making a mistake.

And like I said before, I know I deserved it. I'm not trying to hide that. But there's no point in telling the entire world everything.

One more thing, if you want to see the conversation with me and Gabriel to help you better understand this, please message me over Instagram, Snapchat, or Discord.

Thanks for listening, and sorry for this being lengthy.