After His Friend Pulled A Very Cruel Prank On Him He’s Telling The Internet He Stranded Her On The Day She Was Supposed To Move Out Of Her Apartment
A 24-year-old guy is friends with this 22-year-old woman named Jess. They first became introduced to one another in class, and they have been friends for 3 years now.
Things between them have never been romantic, and this guy says that he is not the type of person to push those boundaries anyway.
A few days ago, he agreed to help Jess move out of her old apartment and into a new one since things between her and her current roommates have gotten bad.
He took the day off of work and was going to take his truck over to her apartment to help her, and Jess was eager to get out of her old place.
The night before the move, Jess got pizza for the two of them as a thank you for him helping her move.
“We were sitting there watching a movie on my couch, being platonic friends as usual, and suddenly she inched closer to me,” he said.
“I figured it was nothing until a minute later she got a little closer. Then she got a little closer and all I could do was think about how it was finally happening.”
“She squeezed up really close next to me and looked up at my face. I’m not the most confident guy so all I could say was “hi,” to which she responded “hi.” Then she asked if I wanted to do “something.” I asked what “something” was.”
“And she said “oh y’know … something.” Still trying to keep room for plausible deniability, again, I laughed and said I don’t know what “something” was.”
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“She kept staring at me and nodding, and I thought I’d take my chances. I asked if I could kiss her.”
As soon as those words had left his mouth, Jess jumped up off the couch and went to go sit in a chair across the room.
Jess then took her phone out and he started saying sorry to her. Jess said to forget about it, and then things went silent between them for a bit.
She eventually said to him that she thought her best friend Kim was right about things, to which he asked what she meant.
Jess then went on to say that Kim has been telling her for years that he was only trying to sleep with her and that’s the only reason they are even friends.
Kim explained to Jess that she should test him, and that night, Jess pretending to want to move past the friend zone was the test Kim had been talking about.
He immediately felt terrible about what had just happened, and he tried profusely apologizing yet again to Jess.
He did admit that he thought she was attractive, but he really valued their friendship and would never do anything to ruin it.
Jess cried, but he thought she had accepted what he said to her.
“After Jess went home, I got to thinking that it was incredibly meanspirited that she would do that to me,” he continued.
“I apologized, but that juvenile high school prank just started to strike me the wrong way. I talked to my sister (who I can talk to about anything), who reinforced that it was disgusting behavior.”
His sister also asked him to hand over Jess’s address, but he refused to give it out to her. The following morning, he was supposed to go help Jess move, but he did not show up at her place.
Instead, he went into work, despite him taking the day off because he thought showing up at work would help him stop thinking about everything that had just gone down between him and Jess.
Jess called and texted him all day, and then Kim started texting him. In the end, Jess accused him of being a “flaking creep” before she stopped contacting him.
He’s left feeling awful about what Jess did, but not so awful about standing her up on moving day over her cruel prank.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“You don’t do that to your friend and expect them to help you just after. She should be the one apologizing.”
“I’m beginning to see why the roommates want Jess gone. What a piece of work. She should room with Kim since they’re both on the same sleazy wavelength…Anyone who pulls this kind of crap on you isn’t your friend.”
“That wasn’t a prank, it was a test, and it was a horrible thing to do! Doubling down and calling you a creep instead of apologizing made it so much worse.”
“I think you actually handled yourself with a lot of dignity, apologizing for any offense caused and refusing to give her address to your sister.”
“Just hold on to that dignity and don’t go to Jess looking for reconciliation. She’ll realize before long that she’s lost a good friend, and either apologize or spend the rest of her life being an AH.”
“That’s a lousy stunt to pull on anyone but especially a friend. It’s a “Lose, Lose” situation for you. She hit on you and you responded positively: she got upset.”
“If she had hit on you and you responded “No”: she still would have been upset.”
“Apparently she doesn’t value your relationship as much as you do. You have every right to pull back and reassess your friendship.”
“Including wondering if she’s just using you for what you do for her and how much money you spend on her: such as helping her move.”
“What she did was incredibly manipulative and I don’t think many people would take the kind of situation she put you in as anything but a clear innuendo that she’s interested. You even asked for consent before kissing her!”
“I would understand why you’d feel deeply upset at such a cruel trick and would want to blow her off the following day.”
“She can go play with someone else’s feelings. People who are okay with doing these kinds of things don’t tend to make good friends long-term. Please don’t feel bad. I would probably never speak to her again but it’s your prerogative.”
You can read the rest of the advice the internet had for him here.
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