Search Results: get braces

So when I was a kid I never really cared about how I looked. I had friends n all but I had a really awful diet, my teeth were yellow since I'd rarely brushed them and I never washed my face in the morning. I didn't think I needed too. I gained weight in middle school and when I entered middle school a boy told me the reason why everyone hated me and ignored me was becuase I was overweight and cross eyed. ( my crossed eyes could of been corrected but I didn't want to wear my glasses) and I was shocked at first I didn't think my weight would be the reason people didn't like me. But still I was ignored and girls and guys told me I was a fat ugly disgusting bitch because they didn't like how I looked. People started telling me I was ugly all the time and even started to destroy my belongings, ripe them up, throw my bag around and leave me out of events. Like we'd be playing a game and all the guys would run off and force me to play by myself. The teachers didn't care and have me zeros. :/ they were a bit rude to me too but I didn't think it was because how I looked. But I didn't do or say much. I was the new girl...

So since everyone thought I was ugly I went up To my mom and asked for braces. I got the braces in and changed my diet and started to workout. I basically got braces so I could get the kids at school to like me so I went though 2 years of painful treatment just be liked by people. And that guy who said people would like me if I was skinny and not crossed eyed? He was right. Once my weight dropped and my eyes got corrected people treated me much better, telling me I was pretty, cute, and I am no longer bullied. People don't treat me as bad as they did when I looked bad. People are nice now... and I was thinking was I wrong for changing how I looked so kids at school would like me? :/ and have you ever been though something like this?

My current situation with this guy (X) started way back when I was a then quiet, awkward 13 year-old with braces and acne problem. He was only a year older and somehow still seemed interested in me. Months later, I found out it was a dare with his friends but according to him (after he apologized) claimed that it was real what he felt for me, that he still wanted me even. Being already ridiculed at school by others, I never really forgave him. Moved to another school after that terrible year ended and decided do some changes.

5 years later (now I'm 18):
Through a friend, I bumped into X but this time as a party goth girl, shorter black hair with red highlights, green contact lenses, no acne and no braces. Apparently thought he didn't recognize me, he did said ''You seemed a bit familiar, as if I talked to you before'', which I excuses it by saying I'm the distant cousin and gave him a fake name.
This lying has now been going on for about 2 months now (my closest friend knows) but he then admitted to me about missing my former version (unaware that he was talking to the same person) and how he didn't lie about his feelings but she never believed him, how he wished she would forgive him, etc along with describing her as sweet, one that would never lie or deceive others, relationship material and how there aren't many like her.

Through a friend, I got informed that he only likes me but doesn't seemed me as future relationship material. So what now? I tell him I'm really the same person? Would you like to know if I lied to you in that manner?

At first, I wanted to get even but now I don't know. I'm starting to feel shitty, esp after he confessed about missing my old version.