Ah, young love.

Daphne du Maurier described it as a fever and a burden, while Maya Angelou wrote of losing it, “The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.” Tragically, there’s now at least one incarcerated man experiencing this indescribable pain after being dumped by his high-school girlfriend via TikTok — who had no idea he thought they were still together.

@lohojpg Yall ready for another car facetime? Sidenote: i was wondering why all these burner accounts would be like “hey its me D” #loveafterlockup #jailbae #prison ♬ original sound - Lo

TikTok user Lo posted a video on the app explaining that she ran into someone from high school who was just talking about Lo with her cousin, prompting her to ask the girl who her cousin was. The girl reminded Lo that in 10th grade, she dated her cousin, which included going on dates to the mall and messaging each other on Facebook — “all the things you do back in 2010.”

He was a year older than Lo and went to a different school, but nonetheless asked her to go with him to prom. Then, out of nowhere, he seemingly disappeared, ghosting Lo before the term ghosting had officially been coined. Fortunately, Lo wasn’t too broken up about it, because “that’s just how it was back then.”

Then, in 11th grade, Lo had a classmate who was always “crying and whining” about her best friend/cousin who was in jail, and eventually, the classmate put two and two together and realized the girl “Lauren” that her cousin was talking about was Lo. The cousin then offered to pass messages between her cousin in jail and Lo, “because he’s been missing you so bad,” and put her in touch with the guy’s sister, who did Lo’s hair for prom and tried to get photos to send to her brother in jail.

Flashing forward to 2016, Lo ran into the cousin when she would go clubbing every weekend; during one of these encounters, the cousin told Lo that “D would be so mad to see you like this,” which confused her immensely. Why would her ex-boyfriend from high school have any strong opinions on her going clubbing several years later?

Flashing forward again to 2024, Lo ran into the cousin again, who shared that her cousin in jail loves seeing Lo model on Instagram and loves seeing her TikToks, adding that he misses her and can’t wait to see her when he gets out. “I don’t know who’s crazier, him or them!” Lo exclaims, stressing that she hasn’t spoken to this man since 2010.

She ends the video with a message for the guy, “I’ve never had to break up with anybody through TikTok, but unfortunately we do not go together. Free you until it’s backwards, unless you did something really bad, which I think you might have because you’ve been in jail since you were 17.”

Hopefully he got that message loud and clear, and he can move on and find a girlfriend he has actually interacted with in the past 14 years.