1. The kid in a grade above you who hung out with the older kids and has deep family ties in town. You're friends with his little sister and some of his cousins. He travels in different circles and secretly hits on everyone. He'll ignore or make fun of you in person but slide into your dms or double text you at booty call hour. He found a way to slap your ass without making it obvious. You're not interested. He might even owe you $10 from a party a few years back.

2. A girl from your grade you've always been on good terms with. Not the closest friends but always friendly. She's doing well for herself. She works at your old job but did some schooling and has a higher position in another department. She tells you how cute your baby is, and how much of a free spirit you are and talks about you as an inspiration. You don't see yourself as very inspiring so the compliments are warmly welcomed and a little confusing. You tell her to come visit your city and know you'd have became close if you still lived in town. She's a doll.

3. Your rapist. You walk in the bar and he's playing a game of pool with the ass-grabber. You learn he's still selling drugs and living with his parents. You feel bad for them. The people he's with make him the butt of your joke. You tell him to go fuck himself when you see him and he looks at you with puppy dog eyes and flips you off and laughs. He continues to try and position himself by you as if there's unfinished business or you'd like his company. He tells you about his job and his community college classes. You wonder how the other girl he's raped reacts when they run into him. You tell him to get out of his chair and he does so you take the chair. He smokes a cigarette with your friend and when she gets back in you take her to the bathroom and let her know about the time he raped you. She wonders why he's even here and comments on how she could tell he craves attention. He photobombs a selfie later on and you save it and think of the irony.

4. The antisocial friend from your middle school soccer team. You remained friends in high school but don't talk regularly since you moved across the country. You tell your friend to invite him out and are somewhat surprised he shows up. He has one beer and refuses any more because he's both a light weight and a responsible driver. He works at the same grocery store as his mom after graduating and hating trade school. He spends his time at the gym and looks really good. If he wasn't like your brother and still anti social and awkward and if you weren't in a relationship and 10x more outgoing, you'd ask him out.

5. The guy you've had a crush on since kindergarten. He hasn't responded to your texts the last three times you visited; you learn he has a new number. He still somewhat rejects capitalism and societal norms but is working again and still hasn't realized he both super attractive and super intelligent. You remember the time in seventh grade that you carved the two of your initials into a table at camp but still have never let him know he's your number one hometown crush.

6. The guy who's so happy to see you even though you weren't really friends. He tells you he reads your articles and you're as good at writing as you are at listening and that he's always enjoyed talking to you. He brings up the time your loud brother got the cops called on his party. He also brings up a party in 2011 where he told you your ACT score was too high to be at that party doing dumb things with those people and you asked why he was there either since you knew he was smarter than that. He talks some shit about your rapist to you even though he doesn't know about the rape. He verbally assaults your friend and accused her of shit talking and being a no one since he doesn't know her when she responds to his rural shit talking.

7. The girl who repeatedly requests you on social media. She spread a nasty rumor about you in high school and spent your soccer practices gossiping and talking shit about everyone. She denied spreading the rumor and couldn't fess up when you called her out. She worked at your old job after you left town and is friends with some of your old coworkers: she had a kid and when you got pregnant she kept trying to friend you on Fb without apologizing. You blocked her Facebook but she sends you an Instagram request every few months. You tagged yourself at a hometown bar with some people from your high school and she requests you within an hour. You deny it and screenshot it to the girls you were friends with when she spread that rumor.

8. The neighbor of one of your best friends whose mom was friends with her mom and would come over sometimes. He went out West for a while but is back now. He knows some of your random friends too and is happy to see you and asks about your friend's married life. You take some group pictures but later he photobombs your girls photo.