One fateful day, my friends and I were at work when I noticed this guy I liked. I pointed him out to my friends, and we all laughed and joked about it. Since then, my friends started teasing me about the guy. There’s this particular friend of mine—she’s very outgoing, always smiling and talking to everyone. But me, on the other hand, I’m not really good with people. I don’t smile, not to talk of greeting. I mostly keep to myself and my close friends. I asked this friend to ask for the guy’s name for me, which she did. She told me it was nice. Later on, I noticed they started greeting each other, even shaking hands and smiling at each other—all this in the space of one week. At the time, I didn’t see it as an issue. So I decided to talk to the guy myself. I went up to him and collected his number, but he collected my Instagram instead and chatted me up the next day. We started talking. Later on, the guy followed my friend on Instagram, which she told me. Along the line, I found out my friend had feelings for this guy. I asked her, and she couldn’t deny it.
Also, I forgot to mention—they were from the same town. She started calling him her “brother” and kept asking me for details about our talking stage, which I foolishly told her. It continued like this. They started having lengthy conversations on Instagram and even on TikTok. She knew things about him that I didn’t. She would compliment him and be the first to point out things to him. It started to feel like I was in a competition with her. At first, I ignored it, but it started getting to me. I was no longer comfortable because this same friend would come to my face asking about me and the guy—why we hadn’t seen each other yet, why this, why that—meanwhile, they were in each other’s DMs chatting every day. The guy and I eventually started dating, but they still don’t want to stop talking. I never confronted my friend about it, but I have always confronted the guy. He keeps saying they’re just friends because they’re from the same town. Please, what do you think about this kind of relationship?
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