I don't know you on a personal level. Hell, I don't really know you at all. But I do know her - and that is why I hate you. She is one of the most wonderful people that I have ever met and one of the most wonderful people that you will ever meet. It amazes me that you can sit around and tell her how beautiful she is, laugh with her like she is the funniest girl on the planet, and then watch her bawl her eyes out a few months later. I am still shocked that you can go from seeing her as the most important person in your life to not caring that she absolutely hates herself now. Then again, none of us are sure that you cared in the first place. And that might be the worst part. You spent months lying to her, deceiving her, and using her. I hope you know how awful that is.

I know that you are young, so I shouldn't be surprised by your lack of class when it comes to dating. You don't really know how to treat women yet, and I'm not entirely sure that's your fault. Still, you're probably a smart kid. You know how to hurt someone and you have done it over and over again. I know that she is not the first girl you have broken. And I know that she will not be the last. For some reason, breaking hearts is an addiction that boys your age fall into. You fall in "love" with innocent girls who just want to feel like someone cares about them, and then you move on to the next girl. The trail you leave behind you must make you really proud of yourself.

While you walk away from every girl you break, taking their heart with you - someone else is left to clean up your mess. I have sat with her at midnight while she cried over you. I have hugged her and gorged ourselves on ice cream until she felt just a little bit better. I have listened to her complain about you for hours on end. And the entire time, I have wanted to scream at you. Have you ever wondered why a girl's friends will always be the first to get angry over a breakup? That's because the aftermath is all theirs. We have to watch someone that we love get hurt, and you get to walk away without a scratch.

A few days later you're with another girl. Everyone knows which means that she knows...which means that I know. You're in high school, you have no secrets. She finally starts to see the pattern. The pattern that a girl told her about when she started to talk to you...a pattern that she didn't believe in. She slowly starts to realize that you are as bad as everyone else said, and this is where it gets bad. Because you made her believe that it was different with her, just like you did all of the girls before her. And now she realizes that she wasn't different to you...she was just another girl. And that fucking sucks.

I hate you because she now hates herself. She might be over you, but the feelings that you put into her head are still there. She still looks at herself in the mirror and sees someone who wasn't worth your time. Someone who is just like everyone else, someone who isn't worthy of love. And someone has to come along and show her that it isn't true. Someone is going to be fixing the damage that you have done for a very long time. It is going to take years of telling her how much she means to make her feel like something again. I wish I could protect her from the guys like you, but I know that you won't be the last scummy boy to walk into her life. You won't be the last one that she lets in who breaks her heart.

There are going to be so much more boys after you, so much more "I love you" moments, and so much more heartbreaks. That is just something she is going to have to go through, but she will learn something every time. She will learn to not trust every boy who has a long line of exes waiting to tell her how awful you are. She will learn to not jump in so quickly. She will learn that sometimes, some people just aren't worth her time. And eventually, she is going to find a not so scummy boy who knows how to treat her with the love and respect that she deserves. Until then, she doesn't need you or any other scummy boy. She's got a great set of friends and a magnificent family who are going to love her enough for a million scummy boys. You just stay away from her and let us help her fix what you broke.