- Really got so bad at this point where
our parents would even start fighting.
- Obviously I start crying.
- I can't believe he's talking to me!
I shouldn't be talking to boys!
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- Hello, and welcome to our sleepover
at 11:27 in the morning.
Fully clothed.
- And today we are talking about the horror stories
that happened to us in high school.
- Yay! (laughs)
- Good memories.
- How was your high school, Michelle?
- It was different because the high school that I went to
was about 70 percent Asian.
- Oh!
- So there was a huge thing between
okay, the Asian popular kids
and then the non-Asian popular kids.
But I feel like a crazy thing
that happened to me in high school was,
this was freshman year,
and I got into one of those elective classes
where they're supposed to be teaching about leadership
but really it was just a class that was really easy
and you could take for fourth period after lunch
and you're like...
Anyways! - My entire curriculum.
- I was sitting in class,
I was very nervous because, you know it's your first year
in high school and you're like "Oh my god,
I'm in this class with juniors and seniors."
- Yeah. - Whoa!
- And you're like "Oh my god,
these are the older, cooler kids."
And I remember this guy who was a junior
started to talking to me
and I was like "Oh, oh, okay, maybe he wants to be friends."
I was so innocent, so naive.
And he starts talking to me every day,
and I was like oh!
I'm making my first friend.
This is so great.
And I remember one day during class,
a girl turns to us and was like,
"hey, can you two stop flirting?
He's got a girlfriend."
And I about wanted to die because I had no idea.
- Uh-huh.
- And then I heard a rumor floating around
that his girlfriend found out
that he'd been flirting with me in class
and she wanted to kick my (beep).
(laughs) - Oh my god! Why?
Can we just talk about why is this a thing
when guys cheat they go after the girl.
- Yes!
- All right, continue.
- His girlfriend was actually the team
of our flag guard-
- Oh no.
- So in my mind it was just her and this posse
of angry women coming at me.
- With giant sticks, ready to just-
- (laughing) And flags just ready to
I don't know, beat me down.
- Oh my God. - And I was scared.
For the longest time I remember school would end
and then I would just race home
and hope that nobody would come find me after school.
Yeah, but looking back it seems so silly-
- Yeah. - Right.
- Because nothing happened,
but when you're a freshman and it's a junior or a senior
it was such a big deal.
- Yeah. - Uh-huh.
- Did he just stop talking to you in class?
- He stopped talking to me and I was just like-
- Damn. Wonder if they're together now.
(bell dinging) Probably not.
- Okay, Swasti, you have something?
- Oh yeah, I have a great story.
So freshman year, same age,
I had two groups of friends
and then I made friends with this other girl
and she was really cool
so I liked to hop around between friend groups.
So I started spending more time
with this girl and her friend group.
And they all seemed really cool,
and really open, and really nice.
And one day,
I thought everything was going well.
I went to go get chocolate ice cream at the lunch line so-
- You have chocolate ice cream at school?!
- Yeah! - I know, bougee!
- We have the little tubs.
It was 75 cents for a big ass tub.
- What?!
- This is the real horror story
is my school did not have that.
- I know. - Yeah.
- Really?! - I was like
I had to pay a dollar for plain vanilla frozen yogurt.
- You had frozen yogurt?!
- We got a vending machine and I thought that was special.
- It is, Joyce.
- So I was going to go get my ice cream,
it was like my daily thing,
and then one girl who was like the ringleader of the group,
she goes, "you're not going anywhere."
I was like what?
And then the girl who was my friend
who had brought me into this group
was like "you're being so mean.
Leave her alone."
So I automatically knew some (beep)
was about to go down,
okay? - Yeah.
- And I was really sensitive at the time.
- I had my hemangioma nose so it was red
and I had just gotten it surgically removed
so it was like oh, I have all this going on too.
So this girl basically sits me down
and she says, "I don't like you.
And none of us are connecting with you
the way you think that we are."
And just before that point,
they had recruited a new girl into this group,
who was also brown, I guess.
Basically I felt like I was maybe the token brown person
and they replaced me with this other girl.
And I was like "well, why don't you feel like we connect?"
And she's like "culturally, there's
a lot of differences here.
And I don't feel like we're on the same wavelength
and you gotta go."
And I was like "but what about the other girl?"
And she's like "I don't feel that way about her."
And the other girl was sitting right next to her
smiling at me super condescendingly
and obviously I start crying.
- What? - I start crying at lunch
because this is happening at lunch.
It's a giant dramatic scene,
and then I have to go to my math class.
So I went to math class,
I was crying through math class,
finally went home,
cried to my mom,
and she was like "they trash."
- You know what's weird is we look at it now
and we're like that sounds insane.
- Yeah. - But that's the (beep)
that really did happen.
It was like if there was one person
that was a little off and you don't want to be friends
with anymore people did that.
But now it's like oh, if you don't really vibe with someone
you're still nice to them.
- You treat them like a human being.
- Yeah. - Right.
- It's just weird how in high school
you think it's either you're my friend
or you're not my friend.
- I was really bullied
so when I hear stuff like that
I'm like "let's fight."
- Did you get in fights in high school like that?
- Absolutely not because I'm six foot one.
Nobody fought me. They all wanted to fight me.
Uh-uh.
But they shut up.
All I'd have to do is stand up
and they'd be like "oh my god, I have to go!"
I'm like okay then bully, bye!
- Joyce, you gotta tell us your story.
- So the story that I'm gonna pull up
is gonna be a little happier.
I used to write love notes to all the cute boys
on the lacrosse team and they never knew it was me.
My handwriting was so bad that I would get my other friend
to write the love notes and it used to be
a big thing during lunch.
We would just post the note onto the locker.
- What did you want to happen from this scenario?
- You know what, I had no idea
I just wanted to tell the cute boy,
I just wanna be like "eh oh boy, you're fine,
I think you're wonderful."
Your beautiful sparkling blue eyes
that dance in the sunlight,
I just can't wait
for another moment. - She a poet.
- What happened after that?
- He messaged me on Facebook
and then I said it wasn't me
and then I stopped.
- Damn, you straight ghosted him.
- Mm-hmm.
- So it was a horror story for him.
- Oh, I mean, now he knows the truth if he watches
as this videos- - Yeah.
- I was 14 just writing these love notes to these boys.
I was so scared of boys in high school.
I didn't have guy friends until I went to college.
- You should have not stopped
because then he probably knew it was you at that point.
- He probably did but I was just like "I'm so nervous!
I can't believe he's talking to me!
I shouldn't be talking to boys!"
I used to be wholesome before I was a hoe.
Lindsay (mumbles)
- All right, guys.
I don't have a specific story,
it's just I had a very bad friend.
I'm the kind of person that doesn't have
a giant friend group at all.
I have one best friend.
That's how it is.
So it was my sophomore year in high school, I was 16-ish,
I was entering a film festival.
Been doing this my whole life.
And I casted this friend in the video,
and then ever since we became like best friends,
and I taught her how to make videos,
and then she started making videos with me,
and it was just a whole thing.
When we started becoming really close,
that's when things started getting really weird
and we started fighting a lot,
and honestly she was really manipulative
and would make me drive her to school all the time.
Or no, she would make me drive her home from school
and then she would just be really rude about it
as if I just owed this to her
and then she would never say thank you.
Would always borrow my clothes, never gave them back.
It really got so bad at this point where our parents
would even start fighting against each other.
Our moms were like...
- Oh wow.
- It was wild.
Because my mom stopped wanting me to go to her house a lot
and then her mom got mad at that.
Moms really pick up on who's a good egg, who's a bad egg.
My mom was always just been kind of suss about her.
I think a reason why she was so manipulative and rude to me
was because one time she told me
that she was annoyed that everyone associated
making videos and films with me in school
because I'd been doing it for so long.
And I didn't realize that she wanted to be known for that
because she just got into it
because I was teaching her things and stuff.
This is high school though!
People just are really in their heads about stuff
and people can be really mean.
I was a very clean cut, nice human
and I think she was just really fun to be around
because she was edgy and different
and I think that's why we were friends, honestly, you know?
Opposites attract, I don't know.
Eventually, I cut things off.
I remember when I finally cut things off
and everyone around me was like
oh yeah, you guys aren't friends anymore
and that's when people started telling me
oh, yeah, we don't like her,
we never liked her, you shouldn't have been friends with her
and I remember being like-
- Whoa.
- This was at the end of school.
I mean, if I had known that all these other friends
would have had my back...
- Dude, high school was just crazy.
- Yeah, I think if I had advice for anyone
in high school right now,
I would just say from my perspective
is that I learned a lot in high school
but as you get older the things
that you're holding onto now
won't have the same relevance.
As a 24 year old, I don't hold
to the same things I did when I was 14.
- If I were to go back to high school,
I would've just done it completely differently
where I just stopped caring at all what other people thought
and tried not to get effected by everyone around me.
High school's like this and then you're whole life is like
massive. - Yeah.
- One of my relatives once told me
that high school's the best years of your life.
I look back at that and I'm like "no it wasn't."
College was better, this is better,
my 30s will probably be even better, I don't know.
Thanks for sharing your stories, guys.
I think we bonded.
- We did.
- Look at us now, thriving.
- I know.
- Living our best life.
- In a bed in the middle of Los Angeles at Buzzfeed.
- I think we should take a nap.
- Sleepover time. - Yay!
- This isn't a real bed so I'm really scared
what's gonna happen. - I know.
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