I was confessed to with a lie by a childhood friend I liked, and they said "I don't actually like you at all. Don't talk to me ever again," so I did exactly as they said. They came crying and apologizing, but it's genuinely too late now.

The protagonist was confessed to with a lie by their beloved childhood friend, and was told never to speak to them again. And when the protagonist followed those words and never spoke to them again, the childhood friend came crying and apologizing, but it was already too late. Truly too late.