I’m 22 now, and I met this guy online when I was 15. Back then, I was in a rough place terrible friends, no one I could trust, and feeling completely alone. He seemed different, though. We started talking daily, like real friends. After months, we shared real names, details about our lives, and he slowly became my best friend. One day, he told me about his girlfriend, and while I acted happy for him, deep down, I wanted him to be mine.
Then, out of nowhere, he broke up with her and asked me out a month later. I said yes, thinking I had finally gotten the person I had been waiting for. Six months in, after a stupid fight, he ghosted me. A month later, I messaged him again like nothing had happened, and we went back to being “best friends,” like he hadn’t just ditched me. He knew everything about me my thoughts, how I would react in any situation and I genuinely believed I knew him too. What a joke.
We fought, sure, but we never stopped talking. Then recently, he started trash talking his current girlfriend, and like an idiot advised him to fix things with her. But no, he started pursuing me again, like nothing else mattered. At first, I resisted, but then he sweet talked me with some nonsense about how his last relationship was “just casual” and that he really wanted to be with me. And of course, I fell for it.
He came to my city, invited me to his hotel, and while we watched a movie, he tried to get closer. I was hesitant, but he just kept pushing with, “We’ve always had something.” I was naive enough to believe him. Four days later, he went back to his city, and we carried on like we were in a relationship. Then, six months later, his girlfriend yes, the one he supposedly “broke up” with calls me. Turns out, he never even left her.
He was just stringing me along for fun. She shows me his chats where he’s telling her that he only ever kept me around as a backup! Can you believe it? He had the nerve to say to her, “I always had her, but I wanted you.” He made a mockery of everything I thought we had. When I confronted him, he had the audacity to say, “I just didn’t want you to be sad, so I kept lying. I got carried away.” Carried away?
And, as if that wasn’t enough, his girlfriend who’s two years younger was funding him, giving him her scholarship money while he ran around cheating on her with multiple girls, including me. I was nothing but a tool for him. I still can’t believe how stupid I was to trust someone like that.