my name is zuri.

 hey everyone my name is zuri and i am going to talk about my life and the friends i have made in the past five years. little back story i live in england and my main bestfriend she lives in australia. zuri and her bestie ava talked every single day. basically unless they had something going on where they could video chat, so they would send updates throughout the day on what was going on and how they were feeling that day. {zuris point of view} i randomly met ava through a mutal friend one day and at first i was just sat back and watched everyone mingle. i was really trying to catch avas vibe to see if we would clash or get along. to my suprise she was laid back and seemed to get along with everyone we ere around at the time. it seemed that no one had anything bad to say about her when i asked around. they all told me she was a really good friend and had a goofy personaility. with that being said i asked our friend that we shared in common what avas snapchat or facebook was so i could add her and see if maybe she wanted to hang with us later that weekend because a couple of us girls were going out for some coffee and shopping. i ended up adding her on facebook and to my suprise she ended up saying yes she would love to come and i figured this would be  good way to start up a new friendship since my bestfriend had moved out of town a few weeks before and i have been a couch potatoe ever since. when i added her i seen she was from aussie bu she comes here to england every few months to spend time with her dad since her mom and dad split when she was tweleve. ava said she didnt really mind it because all they did was fight and argue about everything. didnt matter how big or small it was they seemed to find everything wrong with eachother that ava ended up staying at friends most of the time to avoid the toxicity in her own home. once they got divorced her dad wanted to get as far away as possible but that wasnt the best for ava becasue she was always traveling back and forth and since she is always coming and going she had to get homeschooled so it shrank her social life like crazy and just made her main friends whenever she could when she would be visitng. hence how we met trough bailey. bailey was techically her cousin but they were more like the bestfriend you could ever ask for. me and ava soon became glued to the hip and did everything together. it started out with a couple of us girls and bailey of course he came along because there wasnt much else to do. then as the time went on it just ended up being me and ava hanging out on our own all the time. i didnt mind it at all because at this point we have become bestfriend and telling eachother everything even if it was a little too much detail sometimes. but that is what was making our friendship stronger. we knew everything about eachother and have been through so much together and over come so much with the help of eachother. we thought when she would go back to hers we were dying because we were so apart. i could only imagine our phone bills if we didnt have unlimited text and data because we were on the phone every second of the day till she came back to her das. then we were togther everyday. basically if you saw me ava wasnt to far behind. some people asked us how we didnt get sick of eachother. i cant lie sometimes we did get annoyed with eachother and had our little fights but they never lasted very lng till we both cave and say sorry because it didnt mean anything. youd say we both grew found of eachother where we felt like if we wernt together we felt like we had a piece missing from ourselves. now lets jump forward a few years. we have had many fights and non talking weeks and one time two months.. that was the longest we didnt talk. but we ended up becoming friends again but this time ava was different. i didnt pay much mind to ava and her acting werid we have been through so much that sometimes one of us gets in a funk. but this was different than getting in a funk i have noticed that when me and ava hangout with friends she starts to get mad and jealous when i am talking to someone else and interupts every time i am talking to someone else. i brought it up to ava and she said she was sorry she didnt mean to its just sometimes she doesnt like to share her bestfriend. i totally understand because sometimes i just want me and my bestie time where we go do things and rant about everything and everyone who is bothering us. ava said yeah it is sorta like that, but my feelings are a little stronger than besties anymore. i laughed it off because i didnt think she was serious and i fiigured she was going through one of her phases that she got over in a week.. i should of took her serious because it has ended us where we are today. ava would start saying some things that would make me feel uncomfortable and would comment on my appearance with sexual manner which i told her on many different ocassions that i didnt like when she would say things like that to me and seh would always say sorry and say she wouldnt do it again yet it seemed like she was always doing it no matter how many times she said sorry. i ended up slowly distanting myself from her. we didnt hangout as much anymore and i blammed it on work and dealing with school. i told ava i was trying to figure out my life and even make time to eat or even sleep for that matter. she seemed understandable at first and gave me my space.  yes dont get me wrong we would still text off and on basically every day, but if i would go more than a half day without messaging her or replying back to her in a timily manner. she would end up calling my phone back to back and once she realized i wasnt going to answer she would start to text me first it would be "hey are you ok just checking on you havent heard from you all day, just making sure you are still breathing." i would message her back and say "yes im breathing but barley living lmao." then i would get back to what i was doing and i would hear my phone ding i just ignored it because i needed to focus thing all the sudden i hear. ding..ding...ding..ding..ding.. and so on i figured it was an emergency with that many text, but was i so wrong it was her freakng out on me because i wasnt messaging her back and i turned off my location so she couldnt see where i was and she was freaking out about that as well. i told her "ava i think it would be healthy if we both took some time to ourselves and focused on oursleves for a little bit because i am just overwhelmed with life." ava seemed to be understanding and told me to message her when i am feeling better and clear my head. i was thankful for her getting that i just needed time. well ava had other agenda rathe than leaving me alone she started to stalk all my soical media and then would randomly show up all hours of the day and night and just watch my housee. i even caught her a couple times following me and i had to tell her at this point ava you are stalking me and i am starting to feel unsafe. ava looked at me all confused and said all she was doing was looking out for me to make sure i am safe. i told her thank you but you are the only one making me feel unsafe. after than ava went mia for about a week or two. i was out to eat with bailey, avas cousin, and we were just catching up and talking about our school majors and what was going on in our lives. ive always had a crush on bailey but i never told him because after ava and i became best friends i thought it would be wrong even though ive known bailey way longer. when we were eating our food we didnt notice that ava came in to the resturant. and it didnt take long to notice she was there. all the sudden i hear ava saying " oh so you dont have time to hangout with me because you are busy with school and work, yet you can make time for my fucking cousin are you kidding me? we are suppose to be bestfriends we should be hanging out not you and a dude." bailey and i looked at eachother looked at her and then looked at eachother again. at this point i didnt know what to say to ava because she has crossed the lines so many times it was like she went from being my bestfriend to my obssesive  stalker who i barley knew anymore because she didnt act the same when we first became friends and i didnt know what had come over her anymore. bailey ended up standing up and looking at ava and told her that her fantasy obssesion had of me needed to stop because it wasnt healthy and that me and bailey were talking to be more than friends because we both like eachother and we had to go behind your back because you act like a jealous girlfriend who wont let zuri do anything. this made ava snap off and flip on everyone she then confessed that she did fall in love with zuri and that if she couldnt have her than no one was going to and she would make sure of that. bailey looked at me and said come on we are leaving i dont want you around her when she is acting like this your safety is at risk at this point so we both left. ava watched us leave and we could see her picking up her phone and calling someone. i didnt really care who she was calling because she was insane, but before bailey could even blink an eye he called his aunt and uncle in a three way and told them how ava has been acting and what she has been saying and doing and they both said she hasnt been on her meds and that zuri nor i were safe as long as she was out there without her meds so they ended up calling the cops and reporting that she is a harm to herslef and others and if anyone sees her to stay away  call them.. im not sure what has happened to her but i do know i will get fake accounts watching and adding me on socail media and a few times she has tried to reach out to me but bailey blocks it before i can even see it because he knows how much truama she has put me through and still to this day bailey tells me sorry for even introducing us.