The candidate I had to interview for this week was my high school bully.

I work for a fairly large company in the tech industry. I've worked there for about 5 years now and I've recently been handed taking over a larger portion of bringing in new employees. The manager over this department is also my boyfriend. He wasn't my boyfriend at the time when I first started working here, but we became official a couple of years into working here. He told me for a while now that he thought Frank (fake name) would be a great fit for the department.<br><br>When Frank showed up for the interview, it was my first time seeing him since my senior year of high school. He was the ultimate bully to me during those years and to some extent my best friend. I was a quiet, tech-obsessed nerd who always wore the same outfit (yellow button up shirt and carpenter jeans) while carrying around a Nintendo DS with us. I had severe OCD and would get extremely anxious when Frank and his group would push me to join in on things I was afraid of or didn't want to do. They used to push me out of their group all the time and one time, they put Jell-O in my hair during lunch. I never had the courage to tell anyone and I didn't have any friends outside of this group, so I felt like I had no way of getting out of being bullied by them. I was extremely nervous and almost dead inside every time I was around them. I ended up having a very bad break down one day and went into a suicide crisis. Luckily, a teacher saw me not paying attention and was checking up on me and got me into a counselor's office. They got me into a hospital and I was able of get my OCD and depression under control.<br><br>It's been many years since that and I thought I'd be over it, but here Frank is in front of me, smiling at me. The interview goes well, he answers all the questions nicely and is polite and very interested in the job. He was the second to last candidate to go through and I kind of got stuck in the "what if I'm supposed to see him again?" headspace the entire time. After the interview was over, I Web-searched things he told me during the interview. Low and behold, one of the first results was an article about him winning a scholarship due to his achievements and his plans after high school. Lo and behold, I saw that it mentioned him going into the field he said he was going to. That's what made me realize that I probably am going to see him again. Either here at work or at some company else that we're partnered with. Sucks that I have to constantly think about the possibility of seeing him again, but maybe this is a good chance to show I'm better than him and can't let him get to me anymore.<br><br>UPDATE: Thank you all for the responses, I'm sorry I couldn't reply to them all. I did end up speaking with my boyfriend about it and he was glad that I treated Frank professionally. He did end up getting the job.