Years later...

So here is the basic story of what happened. A long time ago I made friends with people who I had nothing in common with. One of them became my best friend. She was the total opposite of me, she came from a great family and had tons of people supporting her. For years I was there for her. No matter what she did or said about people. I always stood by her side, even when she was belittleing her adopted mother behind her back. I felt horrible for the people that she talked about, but I never said anything because I was afraid that she would do the same thing to me.

A few years ago we had a fight. We were playing an online game together and I told her I could not help her. Her boyfriend at the time jumped all over and started harrassing me because I would not stop what I was doing and help her. I kind just blew him off and kept playing. Then I started getting these psychotic sobbing phone calls from my best friend about how sorry she was for what he did... I kept telling her it was ok. I finally shut my phone off and went to bed. 6 am the next morning she calls again and is still freaking out. I was completely out of it and told her it was 6 am and that I would log into a messenger or something and talk to her when I got up or she could call me later. I saw nothing wrong with this. I went about my normal morning and finally logged into the game. I have this in game mail telling me that she is going to go talk to her therapist about how mean I am to her... I'm staring at my laptop just in shock... I've never done anything to this person. Heck I have never done anything to anyone. I'm always the wallflower. I sent back that I did not want to be apart of her problems and that I was sorry but I was not going to fight with her about a fight that does not exist. I thought that had solved the problem.

Half an hour later I start getting texts and emails from people. Many of them I had no idea who they even were. Then one of our mutual friends asked me what was going on. I had no idea what was going on. He began forwarding me texts sent to him by my best friend. The things she was saying were horrifying. She was telling people that I had attacked her and that I was trying to hurt her feelings and ruin her life. The whole time I am reading these I am getting emails and phone calls from people who are threatening my life. I had people tell me that they were going to come after me because I "made her cry". At the time I had recently had my second child... I honestly did not have the time to go out of my way to cause problems let alone target someone who I protected for 7 years.

The real fight began at this point... She cussed me out, she screamed at me. I finally screamed back... then she tells me "I don't think we can be friends anymore because you and I are on two different levels as people." I cried... not because I had lost a friend, but because she was saying that I'm not as good as her. A few weeks later I am told by some of her friends that she was only my friend out of charity because I am poor. So I vanish. I quit playing the game we were playing for 6 months. Then I start playing elsewhere under names she wont be able to track me down on. Then after a year I log into the character that she would know. I am immediatly bombarded with threatening messages from people I do not know. I immediatly quit again...

To this day I still don't know what happened or why... I moved my family to a different state to escape this person. Yet there are these moments that I think about it and it hurts like it happened yesterday. I'm trying to find a way to forget. People told me to "get over it" and I have to wonder, how do you get over something like that? This was my best friend. Nearly every major moment of my life for 7 years had her in it. To this day she is still talking about me to people and trying to get them to hate me. I have litterally made a new life and new friends just to escape her, and I can't. She keeps coming back to haunt me.

So there you have it... the advice I need is, "how do I forget/deal with this?" It's been years...