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Input: Text: unlike most tifus these days, this was a true story, and not a pleasant one at that. what i'm about to describe to you happened several months ago in the summer and i've since moved on - my girlfriend and i are no longer in contact but i've forgiven my friend and we're just as close as we were beforehand. funnily enough, i was planning to write a tifu on something that had happened today but concluded it would have been a boring read and suddenly the idea of telling this tale came into my head... so here it is!

my girlfriend, let's call her sarah, and i had just been celebrating the accomplishment of having been together for a year and a half. being young we never really expected it, but things had been going very well for the both of us and we were extremely happy with how the relationship was panning out. my closest friend, he'll be known as john here, was also in a relationship at the time, only a long distance one with a girl from the us. he'd been with her for a solid 8 months or so, however his girlfriend was starting to go off him and their relationship was clearly coming to an end. he was aware of this and he'd mentioned it to me, and while i naturally felt bad for his situation, i never really thought twice about it. never dreamed it would lead to what it did!

it was my birthday and the finals were coming up in school. sarah, who had had john on skype for a while but had never really talked to him, messaged him wishing him the best of luck with his exams. they talked pretty much non-stop after that, and within a few days i realised something was wrong. she usually replied very quickly to me, but now she was consistently taking a few minutes to reply to every message i sent without fail. i asked her what was going on and she said nothing; again i thought nothing of it and just waited for the phase to pass.

after another week or so, nothing had changed. she was still taking unusual amounts of time to reply to me and i knew something was going wrong because she was hardly trying to hold conversations with me anymore. i knew that earlier john had logged into his skype account on my pc and when i got home i realised he'd not logged out. i also noticed that he'd been talking to sarah and i started getting suspicious. i'm not sure why i was suspicious - he had, after-all, been my closest friends for a good 13 years and my girlfriend had been perfectly loyal the whole year and a half of our relationship - but i couldn't resist the temptation. i clicked on the chat and i saw they had been talking pretty much non-stop for the past week. having said this, they'd said nothing that would suggest she was going to cheat on me, or that they were anything more than friends. i panicked and was distressed but i didn't know what to do, so i left it, but i made sure i left his account logged on.

the next day, i asked my girlfriend if she wanted to meet up with me and go to the park together on the upcoming saturday. as usual she seemed happy enough with the idea and it was settled. however, i hadn't forgotten about her and john's chat so i opened up his skype account and read what they were saying at the time, and i began to follow their conversation. what they had said shocked me, it broke my heart and devastated me. after i'd asked about meeting, sarah said this to john:

sarah: "oh no, (me) wants to meet up this weekend! what do we do??"

...but i cannot remember exactly what john replied. what i do know is that they'd decided to ask if all three of us could meet that day: sarah, john and myself. she did then ask me about it and naturally i was upset and what i'd seen and was pissed off about it. i didn't bring it up, but equally i wasn't my usual cheery self and she got annoyed that i didn't seem enthusiastic about it; i still fail to see how she didn't feel even the slightest guilt about it.

i met up with her on saturday and i suppressed my feelings about what happened. she seemed loving and happy to see me like she always was, and john said he was running late. eventually though, it turned out he wasn't going to come, and to break the news he had phoned me and told me he was lying on the floor after his girlfriend had told him she was losing feelings for him and instead had started to like someone else. they hadn't yet broken up but he knew their breakup was imminent and he was very upset about it, in fact he said he was lying on the floor in tears unsure of what to do next. sarah was surprisingly upset he wasn't going to come and she spent the rest of the time texting him.

skip another few days and i saw they were planning on meeting up after school had finished. i'd still said nothing about what i'd known to either of them but by this point i knew that things were seriously going downhill, until she told me that her and john were planning on meeting and going to the park. i reasoned with myself and concluded that if anything suspicious was going on between them they'd try and keep it private, and wouldn't tell me they were going to meet. i told her i was a bit surprised, and i told them both i was very worried about what was going on; i told them i had seen how close they were (i said i saw some of their conversation on my girlfriend's phone in the park).

they both assured me nothing was going on, and nothing was going to happen. john told me i could trust him, my friend of over 13 years and sarah told me i could trust her, my girlfriend of well over a year. they promised me that nothing was going on between them; they told me nothing would happen after all because i was important to both of them and they convinced me that nothing was ever going to happen between them. and so i believed them. i assured myself that they were just friends and everything would always be okay, she wouldn’t do that to me and neither would he – nothing would change, just the two people who meant the most to me would be good friends! that sounded like a good idea, and so i left it for that. i trusted them, that’s a mistake i won’t make again.

i spent the next two weeks trying to get it off my mind. not once did i open my friends’ skype, i just left it to them. i was convinced that nothing was going to happen between them whatsoever and i was absolutely convinced that i could trust them both entirely. i was as happy as i had been before and met up with them both on numerous occasions during the next couple of weeks, everything seemed perfectly normal but as with all stories there was an unfortunate twist to come…

i was doing some last minute revision before the test i had to attend in the morning when i began to panic. i could hardly breathe, i just sat there, sweating profusely, confused as to what had suddenly come over me. i knew what it was, i knew that i had to do, i knew that something seriously wrong was happening between john and sarah and i knew i had to find out exactly what had happened. in a rush, i opened up his skype, saw him and sarah had been talking as usual and started to read their messages. to my absolute and total horror, they had been talking “dirty”; they had met up repeatedly; made out and gone even further (the extent of which i do not know as i was too horrified to ask); they had been talking behind my back constantly; and so many other things i do not wish to sleep. messages describing how much they missed each other, how much they wanted to see each other again and whatnot hurt me the most. i’d been lied to, and abandoned by, the two people who meant the most to me.

lesson learned. reddit, tifu (or well, half a year ago!) by having faith in the two people who meant the most to me!

TIFU by trusting my girlfriend and best friend