You and Henriette have been friends since middle grade, you were introverted and his extrovert, his the only friend you had since his the one who approached you first and that's where your friendship began.

When suddenly his childhood friend named Eliza, transfer to your school she had illness so Harriet barely hangout with you because he need to take care Eliza, you left alone in your own and sometimes you got bullied because Harriet is nowhere to protect you.

And from that day on, you stop bothering him and act strangers instead, you've become cold and distant from everyone, that's where you start being independent without expecting to trust anyone.