Shadowing Practice: Crazy shit my ex best friend did - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Okay, I feel like we've all had some, like, crazy friend, right?
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Like, there's some crazy bullcrap.
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Um, yeah, mine was, like, my best friend for, like, most of my life, and I think it was, like, only six months ago when we stopped being friends,
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and it, like, it all kind of clicked, right?
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Like, I already thought that some of the stuff she did was really freaking crazy, but everyone was telling me, yeah, no, I thought she was, like, really weird.
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and i was like why wouldn't you tell me this before okay so basically for some context we were um
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we were best friends since like kindergarten right
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and then like it was fine we had our like little fights
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but i feel like it was fights where like every kid has right
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and then middle school came around
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and i remember i was scared like we were super close
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we could bring be like hey like you did this
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that upset me well she could do that not me because whenever i did it
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it was like weird it was like oh my gosh like i ended up apologizing you know
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and it would be something so stupid like her calling me fat in front of people
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and she'd be like well and i'd have to end up apologizing what the fuck
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so then i i was scared to bring up stuff to her
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because she was more outgoing to everyone and people didn't really like me
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so people would automatically take her side if we stopped being friends
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and that was like the whole class everyone would take her side no matter what it was
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because she'd be able to like just transform it in like a weird way right
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so I was always scared I was never really bringing up
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stuff um obviously there was times where I did wrong I'm not stupid enough to not admit
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that like but it more happened when I like it started kind of escalating
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when i switched schools right actually no i remember one time
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in grade six she pretended like she faked killing herself just to get my attention
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yeah that like that was low -key weird looking back
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and then she got upset when i like reached out to her mom
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because she wasn't answering me and she was like i was like oh my gosh is she okay and she was like, yeah, no, she's literally eating right beside me, um, but when I switched schools,
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oh, excuse me, when I switched schools, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh,
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mind you, I think I was being a pretty good friend, like, whenever her birthday would come around, and I wouldn't be able to, like, buy her stuff, because I was low -key a broke teenager, I would make her something,
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right like I remember one time I made her like a
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five page long letter saying like oh my like this is why I value you as a friend you know
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and I would never get anything for my birthday back I wasn't complaining about
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that just to be clear I'm not complaining but
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that kind of matters later on in the story
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but um she would look at really crazy
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when I would get a boyfriend
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that was something I noticed it was like she would get like really like on me
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when I would get a boyfriend and it was kind of weird
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when I got my first boyfriend it wasn't like seriously I lost like a month um
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but she was like finding stuff to get upset about no matter what
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and I remember this one time obviously I was going to talk to her about this
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because like I had gotten my first boyfriend, right, so I was excited, and I was telling her this stuff, I was like, oh my gosh, like, blah, blah, this happened, and it was, like, when it first started, so I was, like, happy,
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you know, and then one time she was, like, hey, like, um, could you stop talking about boys, like, I'm kind of getting tired, and I was, like, you know what,
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understandable, I, I'll stop, but this was when she was really into JJK then, and I wasn't into it, so, and she, it was all she would talk about,
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so I was kind of tired of it, too, so when I brought it up, I was, like, oh, since we're, like, kind of like saying stuff like that were like kind of setting boundaries
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and stuff like it'd be awesome
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if you could like just tone down the jjk stuff a little bit like i'm not really into it
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so like i don't want to be hearing about it all the time
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and what's kind of hypocritical is she didn't want me talking about boys
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but all she'll talk about is how fine these jjk men were i didn't say that
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but like i thought it was kind of like okay um yeah she tweaked out as soon as i said that
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she got so fucking mad at me
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so mad she was like are you serious like what do
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you mean blah blah like this is what we do like
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if you just gave it a shot you would like it and i was like i
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did try to watch it it just i wasn't really into
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it like i'm you can't get mad at me for
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that um she got really mad
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and then she stopped responding at some point um we weren't
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fighting i was like being kind of confused right um she stopped responding and i was like hey like
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are we okay you know
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and the next day i would text back mind you this
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was on instagram okay this was on instagram um instagram chats i text back the next day
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and be like hey like are we good like i don't
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want any like bad blood to be between us right she didn't respond she didn't even open it
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and i was like okay and then i would send her reels thinking
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that like i don't know i was trying to like you know
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and um mind you at this time i was getting my
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phone taken away like every other day right my parents were always taking my phone away
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so i didn't really have like this
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so i didn't have messages all the time uh -huh yeah she knew this
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and her our main point of communication was snapchat she's just really like talking there for some reason
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so i would try to snap her stuff and talk to her there
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and this was the week of her birthday so her birthday rolled around
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and then I sent her this paragraph on snapchat saying happy birthday
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and I posted her on instagram she opened the message on snapchat never replied
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and I was like oh okay like that's kind of weird
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but I guess she's still mad at me
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and then a week went by and it was still no context
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and I was like it got like I remember I was
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like feeling really bad on it like I was in a really bad mental state right
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and then I texted her on messages because I just got my phone back And I was like, hey, like, please, I need you.
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Can you please respond?
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Please talk to me.
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And then she finally responded.
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And she was like, oh, now you're trying to talk to me only when you need me.
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What?
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And I was like, what?
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What are you talking about?
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And she was like, I deleted all my other social media apps.
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You should have texted me here.
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You never told me this.
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What?
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What?
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What?
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what so i was like what are you i didn't i didn't know
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that she was like yeah and you didn't even like tell me happy birthday
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when my birthday came around and i was like i sent you a paragraph
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and you like didn't you opened it
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and she was like oh yeah my sister read it to me
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and it was the worst thing i've ever seen like a person
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that i barely knew um i sent me a better like happy birthday paragraph, and I was like, but you just said that I didn't say,
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I was confused, I thought it was a pretty good one, honestly, um, I was, like,
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so shocked, right, um, and then, I freaking, like, we all ended up talking it out,
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I apologized, obviously, obviously, whoever would have thought, you know, whoever would have thought that, um, but then, like, later on,
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she was always trying gonna use it against me.
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She was like, oh, you never even send me happy birthday that day.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, I did.
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But I always kind of just like let it slide because I was like, okay, like there's nothing to do about it.
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And then I remember one time I was with my boyfriend in my house and my ex -boyfriend.
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Let's keep that straight.
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Keep that now, um, I was hanging out with my ex -boyfriend, and then, um, she called me, and then I picked up, and she was like, oh, what are you doing, and I was like,
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oh, I'm watching a movie with him right now, like, we're just hanging out, and she was like, okay, like, I was gonna come over, and I was like, yeah, no, I'm kind of with him, so, you know, and then half an hour later,
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I'm hearing my name be yelled out outside, and me and him are like, what the hell, we look out the window, she's there in my front porch,
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just, like, calling for me so i go outside
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and i'm like yo like what are you doing here
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and she was like oh my gosh like i was bored
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and i wanted to like meet him blah blah
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and i was like could i like let me know beforehand honestly this isn't
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that crazy compared to anything but um she came in
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and then we were all kind of hanging out
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and she like was meeting him
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and then she was like oh i have to do some homework
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so i'm gonna sit here and do homework and all me
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and her were like why did she even show up then
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but then later we were talking we were all talking
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and stuff um and then she mentioned like us always getting in flights
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or something because this was us like recently like
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reconciled from that one fight and then she was like yeah man is always in the wrong
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and then he was like i don't think that's true then
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i was there i was like i wasn't really saying anything
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and she was like oh it's true she's always in the wrong he's like i doubt
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that i don't think it is because he also knew what just happened right um
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and i was like okay guys you know let's talk about something else
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because it was getting like pretty awkward but i was like what do you mean i'm always in the wrong
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what um but then oh my god
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um there's probably more crazy stuff that happened
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when i was with them we ended up breaking up anyways but who cares and then um
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um I remember my birthday rolled around right and I think it was
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that same birthday yeah the one right after that
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because this was like two years ago right um
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that same birthday rolled around and I invited her
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and a bunch of my other friends for my new school right we'll all hang out
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and I didn't know this until like recently like a few months ago my friend told me this
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basically i was um getting pretty close to this one friend at my school right like he was pretty cool
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and um and
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and she knew about this right we're just gonna call her
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what should we call her lady lady knew about this right
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and then when they were all hanging out at my house i went to go do something
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and that one friend
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that i made i'm we're gonna call him jack jack was getting some water from the fridge
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and lady was kind of like near him
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and then she was like jack i'm gonna kill you like full seriously he turned out
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and was like what and then she just walked away
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and whispered she was like amanda's my best friend not yours i think the silence says a lot about this
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because what what um it was like really
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weird yeah he told me this recently i was like why
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would you not tell me this beforehand i would have like said something to her right um okay
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and then i remember we there we went to a camp It was, like, a week -long camp, right?
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And there was, like, um, I got a new boyfriend.
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A much better one.
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We're still together to this day.
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Um, love you, Jai.
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so we me jai and lady were all kind of hanging out right um oh
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and there was like a couple other friends there too we
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were in this like lodge type of place we're all sitting down
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and i was honestly like i wasn't in my best state
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because i had just like there was a bunch of stuff
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that just happened and she knew about this she knew
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that i was honestly kind of upset
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and i was kind of like like I was on my
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phone trying to just like mainly calm down you know no I didn't really want to talk to many people
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and then she she put her like leg on my leg
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and I was like low key I don't want to use the word overstimulate like that's weird
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but I was like kind of like not really feeling it
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so I low -key just like gently kind of like pushed it off
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because it was like you know and then she got really upset
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and I didn't really clock it until she was like ignoring
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me after she was like oh why like everyone noticed though
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you know what she said happened she said i yelled
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that i was like get your leg off me what
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so i was like are we serious like you
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that never happened i was telling i was like okay
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that never happened and like she was like okay well why would you push my leg off anyways
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and i was like you knew that a lot happened
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that day and then i wasn't really like feeling well why are you expecting a lot of me like that
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and mind you one of my other friends was also there
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with us i asked her about it she was like i didn't even notice anything happened
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which means i didn't say anything i didn't yell out like crazy right um
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and then like she was saying she was like oh well stuff gonna happened with me, too, like, um, blah, blah,
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blah, like, something that happened with my family, too, like, you don't think about my feelings, and it's, like, the main difference is you knew something was happening with me,
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I didn't know anything was happening with you, too, you said if something could have been happening, so that means nothing happened, like, I don't even understand her point here, like, I'm actually shocked to this day, I don't really know what happened,
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right, we ended up making up, right, and I remember the, um, my boyfriend, and that one random friend that was there, they were all, they both thought it was weird, like, they were talking, and they're like,
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why would you, like, do that, like, like, it's weird, right,
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um, and then, comes back around to my birthday, she also, she did quite a few weird things,
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like, she was always being weird with my boyfriend, she, well, not the weird way she wants him, but she was always, like, challenging him, she was like,
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oh, like, Amanda's, Amanda would pick me over you.
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Lady, shut up.
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Like, actually being weird.
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And she would try to make him buy her things, and it's like, you're not that person.
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Go back to your spot, right?
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And then, um, Jesus, we're just getting kind of long, sorry.
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I, um, so my birthday rolled around again and we were at my house, and I'm Brazilian, so we have this,
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like, tradition where you give the first slice of cake to the person you love most, so everyone was, like, oh my gosh, like, who's she gonna give it to,
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she's gonna give it to her best friend or her boyfriend, and I was, like, bitch, I'm not gonna give it to any of y 'all, I'm gonna give it to my mom, my mom, my boyfriend actually suggested this,
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I'm taking credit, um, and then I gave it to my mom, right, and everyone's, like, oh that's sweet blah blah
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and then like i kind of noticed a shift in lady's
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behavior she was like on her ipad the whole time
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because she like got her phone taken away or something
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and then she was like kind of calling her parents she's kind of being like iffy
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and it was kind of like putting the attention all on
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her like in a weird way right like where she was
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like about to cry um i didn't think it was about the cake i didn't think it was about
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that at all um but then that night
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when they all left i was still with my boyfriend
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and then i got a text message from her saying like
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oh why would you get why wouldn't you give the cake to me like are you serious and i was like
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i gave it to my mom my mother flabbergasted just shocked to my core
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i literally was like there's no way you're serious about this right now
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but she actually ended up apologizing first time in like her whole friendship guys
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um and then like a month after or something like
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that i we were like talking
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or something she was like oh by the way my graduation is on this day
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and i was like okay cool like i'll be i'll make sure to go
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and she was like yeah i'll let you know what like the price is for the banquet
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and stuff for like um when you go and i was like banquet because um
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because we're in canada right banquet is like kind of i thought it was like a family thing
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and they're expensive mine was like 100 bucks per person mind you i have no job no source of income
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so i told i was like yo i don't think i'll
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be able to make it to your banquet i'm totally going
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to your graduation i don't think i'll be making it to your banquet though I don't have any money
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and she's like why can't you just save and I was like
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so you see
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when someone has no source of income I have one dollar now in a month I'll still have a dollar
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because I have no source of income probably have less actually
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but she wouldn't grasp it
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and she was like oh well I saved to get something
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for your birthday oh yeah it was the first time she
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ever got me a present for my birthday right like actually got me a present for my birthday
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and she was saying how she saved money for
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that she got a thousand dollars for christmas my birthday is
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like a few weeks after christmas right you have money there's a difference there's a difference um
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and i was like i literally told i was like didn't you get a thousand bucks for christmas and even
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so using my a birthday present against me is kind of
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crazy in my mind like that's kind of insane i don't see why you would do
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that um that's rude especially considering it's the first time you've ever gotten me anything
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and then she was like really mad she was like oh
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like why didn't like she will keep tweaked out right um i don't have the messages anymore
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if i did i would read them out loud
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but she was like really mad i kind of okay in a way i kind of understand being upset
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because it's like it's your banquet but it's like they're expensive you can't expect me to do that, you know, and I've been to one of the banquets from that school before, they literally stand on the stage,
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and everyone else stands in, like, a table, I'm gonna stand with no one that I know, I'm not gonna be with anyone, I'm not even gonna be with her, why does she want me there,
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but, um, she was, like, really upset, and I was, like, I was, like, okay, crazy that you're using my birthday stuff against me,
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and I'm not your girlfriend, you can't expect me to go everywhere you want me to go, it's kind of harsh, but at that point, I was, like, kind of done with everything, right, like, everyone was telling me,
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they're, like, yo, like, she's toxic, that's all, you have to, like, stand your ground, um, and then she was, like, okay, Amanda, and then she,
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like, anointed me on everything, and I was, like, okay, so we stopped being friends then, right, and that's not even the end of the story, bro, not even the end of the story,
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um, every one of our mutual friends took her side, because she was, like, the more outgoing one, right, like, she's the one that everyone prefers, because she's funnier,
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and they wouldn't even come to me to ask what happened they just kind of all took her side
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and she was posting some stuff about me being homophobic and racist i actually had to look around and be like
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me so she was like oh
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when she also posted something about like me choosing my boyfriend over her
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which i was like this wasn't even what it was about wasn't even what the argument was about mind you. but
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yeah she sometimes still posts stuff to me about me to
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this day we stopped being friends like six months ago mind you
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but honestly that was kind of weird kind of a crazy experience
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don't let yourself get caught up in something like that really hope she doesn't find this video
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Real-Life Drama: A Relatable Friendship Story
Ever had a friend who made you scratch your head? The video shares a raw, honest story about a lifelong friendship that fell apart, filled with relatable moments—from middle school fights to awkward boundary-setting. This dialogue is gold for language learning because it’s packed with casual, everyday English that native speakers use. Think: "low-key weird," "freaking crazy," and "setting boundaries." It’s the kind of speech you’d hear in a coffee shop or a chat with friends, making it perfect for speaking practice.
Useful Chunks & Collocations to Steal
- "Click" (as in "it all kind of clicked"): To suddenly understand something. Example: "After talking to her, it clicked—she was just stressed."
- "Low-key" (as in "low-key a broke teenager"): Quietly or subtly. Example: "I’m low-key excited for the weekend."
- "Set boundaries" (as in "setting boundaries"): To establish limits in a relationship. Example: "It’s important to set boundaries with coworkers."
- "Tone down" (as in "tone down the JJK stuff"): To make something less intense. Example: "Can you tone down the music? I’m studying."
- "Freaking" (as in "really freaking crazy"): A casual way to emphasize. Example: "That movie was freaking scary!"
Your Shadowing Challenge: Speak Like a Native in 5 Minutes
Ready to put this into action? Try the shadowing technique—a proven way to boost your speaking skills. Here’s how: Pick a 30-second clip from the video (like the part where she talks about "setting boundaries"). Play the clip, then pause and repeat it immediately, copying the tone, speed, and pronunciation. Do this 5 times. Focus on how she says "low-key" (casual, quick) and "freaking" (with emphasis). You’ll be surprised how fast you start sounding more natural. This is active learning—no boring drills, just real progress.Remember: The best way to learn English is to use it. These chunks and the shadowing technique are your keys to confident, casual speech. So hit play, start shadowing, and watch your skills grow. You’ve got this!
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | if i did i would read |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | i've ever seen · you've ever gotten · I've been |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — iets dat op een moment in het verleden bezig was | was really freaking · was never really bringing · wasn't answering |
| Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgd | stop talking · stopped responding |
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
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