It was back in July 2017. She was dating my best friend at the time for a few weeks and it ended on bad terms. While they were dating, I had only seen her one time. I didn’t really say much to her as I was a shy and socially-awkward person. I think I managed to get a few hellos out but nothing more than that.

The next time I met her was on the 31st of October. To be honest, I don’t really remember that night much since I was black out drunk for the majority of it. By that time things seemed to be okay between her and my friend and that’s how I started talking to her more.

In late November we were all talking in group chats, I was a lot less awkward online, so this was a great way for me to start talking to her. As I started to become friendlier with her, I started to realise that she was not how my best friend made her out to be at all.

We started to hang out more, and the more time I spent with her the closer we got. There were quite a few people in our friend group. I couldn’t quite explain why but I felt like I had some sort of bond with her, like I could connect with her in a way that I couldn’t with the other people. Usually I hated it when people hugged me, but when she did it always felt warm and comforting.

Where our relationship progressed was on New Year’s Eve. I had one of my depressive episodes and ended up leaving all of the group chats I was in. At the time I just felt really lonely, as if I was destined to never be happy.

She private messaged me, asking what was wrong and why I was feeling like that. There are only a few people that know how much of a mess my childhood was. I felt comfortable talking about it with her. And she seemed to have the perfect response to everything. After a while, I felt a little better about myself and I will never forget some of the things that she said to me that night.

Tell us: Do you have that one person who seems to get you better than others?