I joined an online debate group at the end of July. Salvatore joined three days later. We started by arguing about politics (I'm left-wing, he's right-wing, now he's an anarchist). Then we started talking privately, we became very close, and there was flirting. One day he left the group and sent me a huge message "confessing," but he blocked me before I could reply, which left me completely hooked. After that, there was a toxic cycle: he would flirt with me, I would react when he took too long to reply or was talking to other girls, and he would block me. I would beg him, leave the group, he would unblock me and ask me to come back, and I would. This happened several times, including a joke where he said he had "chemistry" with another girl just to provoke me. Later, a friend leaked screenshots of our private chat, and at his school, they started bullying him about me, which led to another fight and more strange, unexplained blocks. After a month without speaking, a mutual friend put us on a call, we talked intensely, we sorted things out and now we get along better. Meanwhile, Fran joined the group (September 11th), became very close to him, and Salvatore cruelly compared me to her and suggested she replace me as admin, which they did. She's passive-aggressive with me because she knows it hurts my feelings, and he recently admitted that he does like her, but keeps saying he doesn't believe in long-distance relationships, so he doesn't even know if he should confess. Basically, I fell in love with the whole thing, and he never knew how to handle anything without turning it into an emotional circus.
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