Let's start with the fact that she's a manipulative jerk who always victimized herself when she did something to me. For example, in 7th grade (Year 8, or First Year (?) for non-Americans) I was religiously on HIH, writing Remus Lupin fanfic on my original account. 

Now, I had a fic about an OC and Remus. Ellie was absolutely OBSESSED with this fic, she read it like 15 times a day. It was to the point where she would email me about 20 times at 2 am telling me to "Update PLEASE!!! PLEASE UPDATE!!!" Now, because I was trying to be a good friend at the time, I would always comply and write chapters for her. But this was never enough because she always wanted more. 

Once I got to about Chapter 30 of this fic, I had enough of her absolute bull crap. I told her on March 23, 2021, during our lunch period before English class, that I was taking a break from writing. She absolutely lost her crap at this. 

She told me, and I quote "I'll give you 10 minutes, then I want another chapter."

I obviously said "No, I'm taking off as much time as I want. I'll write when I want to."

She was all, "But why?! Writing makes you so happy!" And that type of crap. And don't get me wrong, writing is my passion, I love writing with everything in me. It brings me so much joy. But at that moment, it just didn't. 

I said something along the lines of, "No, it did bring me joy. But it doesn't anymore. I found joy in it, and then you came and ruined it by forcing me to do it constantly, rather than as a hobby when I feel like writing. I will be taking time off HIH, and I will return when I feel like it." 

I blocked her account, her email, her chats, and any form of contact she had with me. Then, I left HIH. I removed the bookmark from my Chromebook, announced my hiatus on my account, unpublished my books, logged out of my account, and closed the tab. And it stayed that way for nearly 3 months. 

For 3 months, I dealt with constant complaints about how "she had nothing to read," "it's so boring without you," "you're my best friend," "I don't understand why you won't write," "I did absolutely nothing to you, just start writing for me again," "I offered you a healthy break time," "you're not stressed because I have depression," and all this other absolute bull crap. She told everyone else that I'm the one who did wrong to her, not the other way around. Up until that point, I had been nothing but nice to her. She went as far as going to Youth Group (she's disconnected from the Church, by the way) and told everyone there a victimized version of what happened to make me look bad, and tried to get them to force ME into APOLOGIZING to HER for what SHE DID TO ME!

And when I came back, I deleted all my books. 

That's all I've got time for right now, but I'll add more later. And fun fact, as I write this in my study hall, Ellie sits right in front of me, reading a Nicholas Sparks book.