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597words2026-01-26 11:24

Chloe, my best friend, went to college in the same city as me.
I studied at a top-tier university, while she went to a private community college.
During our freshman year, she moved in with some guy with blond hair, yet telling her parents she was renting a place with me.

To support her lazy, good-for-nothing boyfriend, she asked her family for money on the excuse of helping me out with my living expenses…
When her parents found a positive pregnancy test in their bathroom, Chloe pinned it on me. Her parents screamed at me to stay away from her and not to be a bad influence.
When she took out an online loan later to get an abortion, and the debt calls reached her parents, she told them I had pressured her into it.
Finally, her parents showed up at my university.
They waved their phone in my face—full of loan shark calls and texts—and beat me up right in front of everyone.
I ended up dying from blood loss.

When I opened my eyes again, I had gone back in time—when my bestie's parents were coming for me.
“Buzz... Buzz... Buzz...”
My phone kept vibrating like my death alarm.
Seeing her parents' caller ID, I realized I was really reborn.

“Luna, your phone's blowing up—you gonna get that?”
My roommate reminded me.
I shook my head. Chloe's parents were impossible to reason with.
In my past life, Chloe and I were high school classmates. We stayed together all the time. Everyone saw us as inseparable besties.
But Chloe hated studying. All she cared about was having fun. So, whenever something went wrong about her study, she'd always make me take the fall.
Back then in high school, it was all just little stuff, so I didn't mind too much.
After the college entrance exams, she picked a school in the same city as me.
I got into a top university. She went to a private community college.
I thought not being at the same school would mean I could finally cut ties with her.
But as she refused to live on campus and secretly rented a place with some blond guy, she lied to her parents she was living with me.
To support her deadbeat boyfriend, she asked her parents for money, saying it was to help me out with my expenses…
Because I'd taken the blame for her so many times in high school, her parents already considered me as a bad influence, corrupting their daughter.
Over the summer, her mom found a positive pregnancy test in their bathroom, and Chloe immediately said it was mine.
Her parents threatened me to stay away from her through a phone call because of it.
After that, I decided to keep my distance from Chloe, not wanting any more drama.
But right after sophomore year started, since Chloe didn't have the money for abortion, she asked her parents for 10 grand, using me as an excuse again.
They refused without hesitation.
Eventually, as her belly started to show, she panicked and took out an online loan.
When she couldn't pay it back, she told her family I had pressured and tricked her into taking the loan for me.
In my past life, when her parents got those threatening debt calls and texts, they demanded I pay back the loan and compensate Chloe for “emotional damages.”
I tried to explain it had nothing to do with me.
They didn't listen and showed up at my school.
In the end, they beat me until I bled out and died.