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Input: So sorry in advance, this post will probably get pretty long.

Y sus roommate 
J my roommate that is my friend 
S cool roommates girlfriend 

I live in an apartment with two other guys. (Y and J) We all have our own room/bathroom but share a living room and kitchen area. 

Y is of legal age to buy alcohol so occasionally J and I will ask him to pick up some items for us. Y is always down to do it and we usually try to find a way to compensate him. This all goes well until one day J decides to let Y use a whole foods gift card to buy alcohol, this is where things get complicated. I was not present for when things went down and only know what happened through what I’ve been told by both Y and J. 

From my understanding, J and Y arrive at whole foods with J’s girlfriend (S) in her car. Y goes inside and buys all the booze with the gift card. They come back to the apartment and realize the card is missing. 

This card is the main source of J’s food money and had 3 or 4 hundred dollars on it. 

Y says that he handed the card to someone in the car but J and S both disagree. From what we know, the card had to have been used in the store, so this means it would have 1) been left in the store 2) dropped between the store and the car 3) dropped in S’s car or 4) someone held onto it. 

1 the store was called and the card was never found

2 he was holding a lot of stuff he had just purchased in his hands so i feel like the natural thing to do would be minimize the things carried. Putting away phone, wallet, valuable gift card... my guess is it ended up in his pocket

3 J and S tore up the car looking for the card and were unsuccessful

 and before anything is said about S taking it, J and I both know her well and agree that it wouldn’t be like her to do something like that

4 i hate that this seems the most logical but i feel like he was the one in most control of the card

Nothing really came of this because J and I really don’t want to just accuse him without any real evidence. He hangs out with people who steal and has been stolen from by a methed out “friend” but I don’t believe that’s in any way a reason to believe he would.

Months had gone by but last night Y and I had a few too many together and I told him about J and I’s suspicions. This led to him constantly saying how he would never and that he has always been good with recipts, which is great and J and I both really appreciate it! But that doesn’t excuse the circumstances of this specific event. He kept trying to get me to tell him how much was on the card, which I obviously lied and said I didn’t know. After that he was talking to me about how he couldn’t afford it now but wanted to set up a way to start paying him back for the money he lost on the card. This sounds great but it only raises my suspicion! I could be overthinking this but it seems like a guilty conscience to me. He probably had no idea how much was on there. I honestly don’t know that if he had taken it he would actually admit it.

I know this isnt my business directly but i would really like to know if someone i live with is okay with stealing from other roommates.

Bottom line is, i still don’t believe him.

Thank you for reading my rant, more than anything im confused but id love to get input



not believing suspicious roomate didn't steal