Help with query

So I'm currently working with a following model system.

You follow this x-user and x-user may not follow you back.

I have been able to display the users that I'm following but I would like to display a text saying whether x-users follows me back as well or not.

For example I have this on my table:

id, user_id, friend_id, status, type.

and I'm calling these three methods in my controller function:

PHP Code:

// Already friends?
$data['relationship'] = $this->User_model->the_relationship($user->id);

// Get user followings
$data['following']   = $this->User_model->get_followings($user->id);

// Followings follows back Logged In user?
$data['followsback']   = $this->User_model->followsBack($user->id); 


one checks if there's already a relationship between both users(logged in and x-user), the second one gets the x-users which the logged in user is following and the third method should display a text of "Follows you back" and/or "Does not follows you".

Here are the three methods in my model:

PHP Code:

   // Relationship for users
    public function the_relationship($id){    
        $this->db->select('*');
        $this->db->from($this->relationship);
        $this->db->where('user_id', $this->session->userdata('user_id'));
        $this->db->where('friend_id', $id);
        $this->db->where('type', $this->type);

        $query = $this->db->get();

        if($query->num_rows() >= 1){
            return $query->row();
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // Get user followings
    public function get_followings($id){
        $this->db->select('*');
        $this->db->where('user_id', $id);
        $this->db->where('friend_id !=', $this->session->userdata('user_id'));
        $this->db->where('type', $this->type);
        $this->db->where('status', 'following');
        
        $query = $this->db->get($this->relationship);
        return $query->result();
    }

    // X user follows back Logged In user? --- HERE IS WHERE I'M HAVING TROUBLES
    public function followsBack($id){
        $this->db->select('*');
        //$this->db->where('user_id', $id);
        $this->db->where('type', $this->type);
        $this->db->where('status', 'following');

        $query = $this->db->get($this->relationship);
        return $query->row();
    } 


What would be the correct way to display the text in the view?

Thanks in advance.

NOTE: Do you use Twitter?; the system is similar if not exactly to it. You can see your following users and can see a text of follows you as well depending on each single user.

I do Front-End development most of the time