This woman has been best friends with a woman named Sophie, 20, since 2018. She considers Sophie part of her family, and Sophie offered her the emotional support she needed when her parents divorced in 2019.
After the divorce, she and her younger brother, 19, lived with their father, 54. Before she and Sophie started college, they got together about five or six times a week, but now that they’re both so busy with classes, they only spend time together about twice a week.
“My dad and Sophie have been acting suspiciously for quite a long time. I’ve always sensed a little tension between the two of them that sparks up whenever she comes over, with my dad finding ridiculous excuses to leave the room/house and her getting all awkward,” she said.
Until recently, she brushed off her father and Sophie’s behavior as their introversion. However, as time progressed, she wondered if her father and Sophie were hooking up because too many odd things started happening, and she couldn’t get the suspicion out of her head.
One of the last times she got together with Sophie, they went to a mutual friend’s engagement party. Afterward, they went back to Sophie’s house for a sleepover and continued their traditional movie night. They’d been so busy that they hadn’t had a movie night in two months, so they were excited to hang out together. After she changed into her pajamas, Sophie went to take a quick shower.
She was sitting on Sophie’s bed when she saw a gorgeous bracelet on the nightstand. At the time, she didn’t think much of it. Days after the sleepover, she and her father were checking the Amazon delivery details of a birthday present they’d just ordered for her aunt.
They’d ordered the gift from her father’s account, and while they were both looking at his phone, she noticed that in his previous orders, she saw a bracelet identical to the one she’d noticed on Sophie’s nightstand.
A couple of months ago, her father suddenly canceled their family dinner, stating he had a work emergency and asked to reschedule dinner. Since she had nothing else to do that night, she called Sophie at 7 p.m., who picked up after the first ring.
Before she could say anything, Sophie (who strangely sounded out of breath) asked her how her day was going. She informed her that her father canceled their family dinner, and she asked Sophie what she was up to. In response, Sophie said she planned to hang out with her mother at 8 p.m.
“Then, something weird happens. I hear Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’ playing in the background (which is my dad’s ringtone), followed by an abrupt silence. All of this happened while I was sitting beside my brother, who had just called my dad,” she explained.
During the phone call, she asked Sophie about why the song randomly started playing, and Sophie explained that her Google Home might be acting up. A few weeks ago, she invited Sophie to one of their most recent family dinners because her father suggested it after they found out that her brother had invited his girlfriend.
While she found it weird that her dad told her she could invite Sophie, she rationalized that maybe he didn’t want her to feel sad that she hadn’t invited anyone since her brother’s girlfriend would be at dinner. When she asked Sophie if she wanted to come to dinner, she accepted the invitation. For every dinner, the family goes out to a restaurant, and her father always chooses where to eat.
Her father decided that they’d go to a restaurant that recently opened, and it ironically was the same restaurant Sophie had been begging her to go to. She assumed this was just a coincidence, but she couldn’t help but think it was weird.
At dinner, the waiter started taking all of their orders. She and her brother told the waiter what they wanted, followed by her brother’s girlfriend. Before Sophie could order, her father ordered on Sophie’s behalf. She was stunned when Sophie didn’t object to this or seem to have an issue with it.
“It was crazy because Sophie is a very picky eater, and it is kind of rude to order for someone without asking them. I confronted my dad then and there, and he said that he didn’t realize it and just took a lucky guess. Sophie seemed very visibly tensed and uncomfortable. She just kept saying to me, ‘Let it go,'” she shared.
Because she didn’t want to ruin everybody’s dinner or cause more awkwardness, she dropped the subject. Days afterward, she asked Sophie if anything was happening, which started a fight. Sophie called her insane for making such an accusation and vehemently denied that she was hooking up with her father.
But Sophie’s last statement concerned her: “‘Even if we were, how would that affect you in any way or form? I would still be your best friend, and he is your dad.'” During the fight, she didn’t realize how strange this sentiment was. When she reflected on it later, she wondered if Sophie had accidentally confessed to hooking up with her father, therefore confirming her suspicions.
What advice would you give her?
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