Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: to be fair, this actually wasn't today but more like half a year ago. oh well.

this past school year i met a girl on the first day, i won't say her real name so let's just call her brittany. now brittany and i hit it off pretty quickly, and became really good friends. keep in mind that i wasn't interested in her romantically, she was just a great friend to have around and it was nice talking to her naturally unlike some other girls who i had to talk to like i had a stick up my ass. anyway, that year i had a crush on this really pretty girl in my science class. she was quiet and really hard to get into a conversation with, but brittany and her friend helped me out a lot. after a couple months though it wasn't going anywhere and i was loosing hope.

i told my brother about my predicament and he seemed to think that i was going after the wrong girl. he encouraged me to pursue brittany, to which i very quickly declined. 'i only see her as i friend,' i said. one night he was with me and we noticed she was on facebook. i finally gave in and let him walk me through a conversation with her, and it ended really nicely. it made me question if brittany actually had feelings for me. with this in mind, it started getting akward around her. i was getting mixed vibes and it was really screwing me up. i finally said to myself 'you know what? fuck it, i'll try advancing and see where it goes.' so i started flirting a little bit. her reaction wasn't bad at all, in fact people were approaching me telling me that they thought brittany liked me judging by the way we were talking. 

as interesting as my investigation was getting, i still had no idea what to do. i wanted brittany to remain being that female friend that i could treat like anyone of my guy friends, but this romantic thing was starting to get the better of me. one day, her close friend asked me if i still liked that other girl, and i said no. then she asked me who i liked now. this is where my tremendous fuck up begins. i figured that i'd tell her i like brittany and have liked her for a while, hoping that she would go back and ask her if she liked me, and this mystery could finally be put to rest. well, to my suprise, brittany actually didn't like me. and on top of that, she thought that i had been acting really wierd lately and it was causing her to avoid me a little bit. in one way i was relieved; she didn't like me and things could return to normal. but my ego was not appeased. i couldn't just let it go with her thinking that i made a ton of wierd advancements solely because i liked her. after all, i was only acting like that because i thought she liked me, right? i would later realize that i did start to have some feelings for her once it was in my head, but at the time i wasn't accepting it.

i texted her telling her that her friend told me that she thought i liked her, and that it was false. when she didn't believe it, i said i never liked her, and i only told her friend that i did because i was covering up telling her who i actually like. it's a shitty thing to say, i know, but my mind was racing so fast i didn't know what to say before it was too late. of course, she got defensive and upset. she also said my story was bull, so after trying to convince her it was true for a couple minutes i finally just gave in and explained the whole story to her. she reacted by calling me a fuckface and a liar and proceeded to not talk to me again for months. although we did occasionally share a word a couple months after it happened, our friendship never healed. her friend would still talk to me, and would even say that she was over reacting, but i felt like such an asshole it didn't really help. i suppose i'm not the best with women. i lost a friend because of the possibility that she could be more than a friend.

 

atleast i have you, reddit. ...right?

TIFU by lying to a girl over something ridiculous