7. Alec. He was always the one that told Chloe she was wrong about you. “Your vibes are off,” he would tell her when it was just the three of us. He believed in you. He believed in us. You fooled him with your charm, just like you fooled everybody else (except for Chloe). Alec bought it. He bought it so well, in fact, that when we broke up (we didn’t just break, though, did we? We shattered. At least, I did) he sided with you. The boy I had known since pre-K picked you over me. He thought I was overreacting. He thought our relationship wasn’t exclusive. He thought all the same things you did. I bet you could sell water to a whale. Everything you say is a lie, but it always sounds so nice coming from your lips. You wrap those lies in light laughs and inside jokes and other peoples’ insecurities. And they believe you. Alec did.