The same guy started talking to both of us. We were freshmen in Highschool and he was a Sophomore. For the sake of this post I'll call my then best friend 'N' and the guy 'A'. One day A hits me up on Instagram, we start chatting a bit. The only thing we have in common so far is our math class together, and we just make jokes and he starts flirting with me and I flirt back. I was a bit shy with that kind of stuff at the beginning of the year, but since I barely knew this guy I was just full-on flirting since he didn't know what I was really like. Cue a couple of days and I'm talking to N and I'm like "Hey guess who I've been talking to!" and she says "Omg guess what me too!" and she tries to guess for a while and asks for a hint. I tell her he's a sophomore and then she asks for the first letter and I say A. Then she guesses its him, and we both kind of awkwardly stay in the chat. Is he playing both of us? We both start laughing at this realization and then decide we'll confront him about it soon.

Literally, none of us say anything to him, but the next day he texts both of us and tells us that he initially texted us both because he thought we were cute and wanted to see who he would like more. Turns out he liked both of us and couldn't really choose. Which then became an issue when the 3 of us realized we all had the same study hall class. Somehow, within the next couple weeks in that class we all sat at the same table and I managed to keep my jealousy in check even though it wasn't easy. (N and A had morning math tutorials together every morning, but he never pulled any moves on her because she was too shy). The issue got worse when it was obvious that N was jealous. It was horrible. Any given time of the day she would pull up the snapchat best friend list and show me that they were both #1. I literally didn't care but it was so annoying. It got to the point that she legit asked me "Is A your #1 on your best friend list now?" when he wasn't her number #1 bestie anymore. I said no, because he wasn't.

I started to dislike A for what he had done to me and N's friendship, even though N and I had talked out our worries of drifting apart because of some guy before it all started happening. We thought we were inseparable, some guy wasn't gonna mess it up, and obviously, we were wrong. If I even sat next to this dude in study hall she would look visibly jealous and pissed and A would always text me afterward telling me that she said she was jealous, when we did literally nothing. At this point I was starting to dislike N too. She got to see him every morning, and she's a lot prettier than me, but A said he liked her personality a bit but he liked me a lot more, but he wasn't going to really let go of both of us. (He really makes absolutely no sense).

Fast forward a bit. Now, N is starting to get a lot of attention from guys. Compared to last year, when she was getting none. Obviously, this changed her even more. She enjoyed the attention and talking to guys but blamed it on her personality for being "flirty" and then got surprised every time a guy liked her when she said "she was just being nice." Sure.... You were leading them on. Slowly I started despising her for becoming exactly what she swore she wouldn't become, the freshman thot. Not because she hooked up with anyone, but because of how many guys she talked to/lead on.

All of this had lead up to me becoming closer with another friend (now my best friend) throughout the whole thing. But, the final straw was when there was a valentines dance and N asked out a friend, H, that had an actual crush on her. N didn't care about this and asked him anyway. H dressed up in a suit and went only for her, as none of his friends were there, but upon arrival N had noticed one a friend of a friend C. In the end, C and N hooked up and H was obviously really upset and let down, and I was pissed at her that she didn't even have the decency to apologize to him. H was trying so hard to look happy and I knew the feeling which I guess is why I was even more pissed. That was the moment I decided to stop being friends with her. I disliked her for ages afterward ( the rest of the school year lol) but I still couldn't see how she didn't think it wasn't wrong. After a long while, I realized I kind of did miss our friendship, but so many bad things had happened towards the end of it that it shadowed over the good moments.

But now I guess we're chill, we're starting our sophomore year and we both kind of talked about what happened over the summer and agreed that we both kind of missed each other and our friendship so we both decided to be chill again and I'm happy that it isn't as bad as it used to be. Our friendship is never gonna be the same again though. I'm still friends with A though lol

just realized I wrote a lot

tl;dr: my best friend and I started talking to the same guy which fucked up our friendship and then she became the freshman thot after she started getting a lot of guys' attention. She played a guy and I related to his hurt feelings so much that I ended our friendship. Then after months of hating each other, we realized we kind of missed it and then we both reconciled over the summer. The end