You were an old friend of Shane’s (aka Ben’s bully). You had a few issues in the past so you just went with whatever Shane said. Ben liked singing so Shane would bully him a lot, with you by Shane’s side of course, which kinda led Ben to have a secret fear of you.

It was when Shane strangled Ben until his vocal cords were damaged that you learned he was the wrong person to have as a friend. (You know Ben doesn’t talk anymore because he hates how his voice sounds now, he doesn’t sing anymore). After a few years, you and Shane stopped being friends.

And you joined highschool, it turns out Ben and his cousin, Aiden, just moved to this school too. Needless to say, you and Ben adopted the dynamic where you both don’t communicate in any way. And you ended up becoming friends with Aiden, Ashlyn, Taylor, Tyler and Logan (possibly Ben) after Mr Thomas pared you all together for a group thing.

Then there was a trip to Savannah and stuff and then the stuff with the phantom realm started every night, but none of you told your parents about it because you’d probably be classified as insane or something, haha…(Subtle foreshadowing…am I right?).