Too many things to count, but if I had to choose only 1, I would go back to the summer before I started high school and ensure I never met the older student who would start molesting me in the months to come. If it was impossible to stop this from happening, I wish I had never told anyone and kept it secret.
I hadn't even learned what sex was yet, when he started touching me. A naive, foolish, little girl, I didn't know any better, I was so stunned by the fact that a cool older guy would want to talk to someone like me, of all people, and showed any interest in hanging out, because I barely had any friends and was bullied so much.
Whenever I see movies or TV shows featuring high school, it makes me feel viscerally sick, empty, and mournful for a life I never got to have. There are no happy memories of school life for me. I barely even got to go to school as a teenager because my family removed me after the sexual abuse case was opened. I wish I got to have a normal high school life, instead of being locked away.
Sometimes I'll be reminded that the girls who are now mothers and professionals were the same individuals who called me a slut and whore a decade ago, and wished that I would die, when their beloved shitty friend violated my dignity multiple times and molested me in public.
I was only 13 years old when that guy was following me around at the high school tour, planting the seeds for some kind of relationship to happen. I want to go back in time and run away from him. After it happened I cut off all my hair, because I never wanted a man to look at me like that again. I wish it was only a nightmare instead of the reality that I've had to live with the past 11 years.