Her Best Friend Started Touching Her, Thinking She Was Asleep, But She Wasn’t

A 23-year-old woman recently took a trip to Florida to visit her 24-year-old male best friend. Her bestie has been going through an awfully difficult time, so she thought if she flew down to see him and stayed with him at his place, it would make him feel better.

Someone in her best friend’s family got divorced, then one of his loved ones wound up murdered, and those are just a few of the things he has been going through.

Now, she’s known her best friend since she was 17-years-old, and they met in high school.

A few years after high school, her best friend ended up moving out of state, though they remained quite close.

Several months before she flew down to see him in Florida, he told her that he did have some feelings for her, and she replied that she didn’t feel the same way and wanted to begin dating women.

As soon as she arrived in Florida and started hanging out with her best friend, she instantly felt very uneasy.

Her best friend has always been flirtatious, even when in a relationship, and she wasn’t surprised to see that he was still like that.

She was, however, surprised when he began touching her on different parts of her body. Her best friend touched her shoulder, her arm; then her thighs.

“I tried to shake it off until we watched a funny show on my second night there and he started to inappropriately touch me down there during a few fast and specific scenes to which I froze in response to,” she explained.

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“After the episode ended and we were supposed to watch a movie, I was nervous to do it, but I told him I didn’t like the touching.”

He did tone it down and stopped, but over the next several days, he started again, though to a lesser degree of intensity.

She didn’t know anyone else in Florida, and she couldn’t go stay somewhere else, so she felt like she was in some kind of trap.

Here she was, having flown down there to try to lift her best friend’s spirits, and he was making her feel wildly nervous.

On the final day of her trip, everything got a whole lot worse. She was trying to sleep in a bit since she didn’t feel up to having to deal with her best friend’s behavior.

She was, however, very much so awake despite pretending to still be sleeping in that morning.

“When I was trying though, I felt him start to slowly touch my butt and hip with one hand, then slowly moving it to cup and touch my boob after a few minutes of that,” she said.

“He then placed another hand on my other hip while he thought I wasn’t awake. It stayed like this for a few minutes before I worked up the courage to pretend to wake up and make a break for the bathroom to hopefully convincingly act like I didn’t know what had happened.”

She’s pretty positive he would have simply kept going if she did not “wake up” and it absolutely broke her heart to know that her best friend of nearly a decade was capable of this.

She did not confront him, especially since he was her only way to get to the airport and get home.

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She tried her hardest to not let him know anything was wrong, and she successfully did that until she got on the plane and got back home.

Later that day, her best friend sent her a text saying sorry “for being too handsy” and that he did not want her to feel uncomfortable.

She told him that she accepted his apology, before pointing out that she was interested in women, though she thought he still “was a great guy.”

“I really don’t think he knows that I was awake and aware throughout the whole groping thing,” she said.

“I left it at that and we’ve talked a bit since then, but I haven’t been putting any effort into the friendship recently because I still feel so betrayed over what he did that I honestly don’t think I want to continue this friendship.”

She does feel so badly that her, well, I guess we can safely say former best friend is experiencing some bad things in his life, though that’s not an excuse for what he did to her.

She’s concerned about confronting him, for fear of him doing something drastic. She’s not sure what to do or if she should eventually say something to him.

How would you handle this?

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