I hate the bully x victim trope

I hate the bully x victim trope with a burning passion! I'm watching season 2 of Sex Education on Netflix right now (slight spoiler alert) and one of the main characters, Eric has 2 love interest options. One of them is this guy who is super good a communication and is just overall like a nice person and the other guy has literally bullied him for yearssss in school, like just tormented the kid. So Eric starts dating the first guy but then, you guessed it, breaks up with him in front of the whole school for the bully?? I'm just so confused. Like this show makes me think I don't know what being a person is. A few other times watching this show I've been confused too, like when this jock guy wanted to date this girl so he asked her friend what kind of stuff she was into so he could impress her, and it works out and they start dating but when she finds out that he talked to her friend about it she stops being friends with that person?? How does that make sense? Admittedly there was money exchange for said information which does make it a little weird but seriously why would you stop being friends with someone over that? If anything shouldn't she be mad at her boyfriends? I guess I just seriously don't understand how other kids my age socialise. Also don't crucify me for this but I didn't really like a silent voice for the same reason. Now I'm not saying I think everyone who bullied someone as a kid should be socially shunned and ostracized for the rest of their lives but I am saying it doesn't need to be the victims place to forgive them. I think there's too much media telling victims that they need to do exactly that.