Chased out of town

Okay, so stick with me through this long tale of revenge, love and betrayal.

(TL;DR at bottom)

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But first, the major characters:

- Me

- J - My girlfriend of 3 years, also my roommate

- T - my best friend since Freshman year of college and also my roommate

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So in 2016 my close friends and I were all very lucky to be living together in a huge apartment just outside of a major East Coast city. We all were all a bunch of crazy twenty somethings having fun and for the two years we lived there we all got along super well in a messy apartment full of pets and bongs and board games.

A quick bit of background about J and I and our relationship. We were very close and always had each other's backs through a lot of tough and strange situations. As it happens, leading up to all this J and I had been having a difficult time as she was dealing with a lot of deep running mental health issues and I myself was dealing with a lot of career pressure. We had been slowly growing apart for probably 6 months before all of this and to be honest I was really distant and had been unwilling/unable to help her deal with her issues. In short, we were both growing apart and I did nothing to stop it. We had talked about two months prior about how we felt and we both acknowledged that it would be okay to see other people.

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So after J and I went to a wedding and had a great time and were kind of picking up steam again, she let me know that she had something bad she had to tell me. Turns out, for the past month or so, she had been sleeping with our roommate, my best friend T

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Now, this is probably familiar ground to everyone, but this isn't a story of revenge against J...

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So now a quick background on T. As I mentioned, I had roomed with him since college and we were thick as thieves. We bonded over music, especially pop punk and emo, notably the band Brand New. T had been in a relationship with his highschool sweetheart, who was also a part of our group of friends and they had always had a relationship that was rocky but always managed to stick together. T and I had the same style, same look, basically the same haircut, we looked almost like brothers. He tended to be a little more cocky while I have no problem sitting back and letting someone else run a conversation but all this worked really well in our group of friends. T was also the number one person I confided my secrets to and we certainly discussed relationships a lot. He let me know that he was very unhappy about his relationship, wanted to find a way out, and had come very close to cheating on his girlfriend countless times throughout their relationship. My girlfriend J and T were both aspiring teachers and after J got a job in 2015 doing a morning and after school supervision program, she managed to land T a job also. Practically speaking, that means that they worked together every day and had a huge chunk in the middle of the day (basically regular school hours) they would both be off. I was thrilled that my best friend and my girlfriend were bonding and it felt like one big happy fucking family.

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So J breaks the news to me and the big fucking happy family shatters for me. I respected J for coming out with the truth and we talked and decided we would try to figure this out. I asked her to keep what she told me to the two of us. With all the crazy things going through my head, I really wanted to see just how badly T was lying to my face. Also I wanted time to think about how I wanted everything to go down in what was sure to be chaos once the word got out. So I began to scheme...

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Phase 1 - recon

I decided to try to carry on best I could as if everything were normal, talking with T and "confiding" in him. The whole time I had to keep from laughing from all the hypocrisy. I looked right into his eyes and right through every word he twisted. I noticed just how much his personality was based on deceiving people. Looking into his eyes as he lied right to me drove me insane but also made me determined as hell.

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Phase 2- trying my hand at some sabotage

I gave a call to an old friend of mine who knew the art of high troublemaking and he suggested a few options, centered in particular around T's car. His first suggestion was to pour laundry detergent in T's gas tank, basically trickster friend said that old tricks like adding sand or pissing in the tank wouldn't work on modern vehicles whereas detergent would get his engine niiiice and clean. After mentioning I wanted to start subtle and then keep that for a finale, my revenge friend suggested sabotaging his tired with screws. Trickster friend knew that unlike nails, screws would slowly (and hopefully safely) let air out of T's tires rather than a dramatic blowout. I figured hell, that sounds like a good step 1 for sabotage and began slowly placing screws right behind T's tires so he would run them over after backing out of our street. This, along with stealing all the books, movies, and clothes I could. All while keeping a killer grin on my face any time I was talking with T.

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After a few days with no results, I started to add more and more screws beneath his tires, because I really wanted him to feel like the world and luck was taking a shit on his chest so I could really amp up my campaign of sabotage. By that time he had probably 2 to 3 screws planted under each of his right front and back tires but I had no idea whether they were having the intended effect. I attempted the old laundry detergent trick but was foiled when his gas cap could only be opened from inside the car and I would need to steal his keys.

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Phase 3- Secret's out

By this time, perhaps a week and a half after I found out, the whole house had noticed the change in the air. Likewise, J spills to T that I know all about them. I get a text from T that was something along the lines of "Sooooo hey bro, I guess you heard and its super awkward right haha" to which I responded with the most relevant and acerbic Brand New lyric I could (yeah I know OP, don't cut yourself on all that edge). I let him know he had 24 hours to tell his girlfriend or I would tell her. The next morning I get a sobbing call from not only T's girlfriend but her mother as well. I told them yeah, T is a giant piece of shit but apparently that wasn't the right answer and I discovered I had made another enemy. Meanwhile the rest of the house finds out and T can't work up the courage to even face me directly.

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Within 3 days, T had moved all of his stuff out of our apartment and moved back in with his parents about an hour outside the city. About a month later he quit his school job once summer break rolled around. I found out about a week later that my screw trick had worked after all and that when he was getting his tires replaced. Apparently it was pretty damn obvious what had happened from the number of screws they found. I hear through the grapevine that T is terrified of me and thinks I tried to crash his car and kill him. PERFECT

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Phase 4- Epilogue

All this drama really changed our group of friends, and friendships were broken but we all dealt with it. We (everyone still at the apartment) collectively decided to stop paying our gas bill, which was under T's name. Lets just say the bill was upwards of $1000 before we moved out (not to mention all of the stuff of his that I swiped). The last 3 months in that apartment weren't easy, but J and I held what we could together but we decided once the lease ended that we would split with no bad blood.

I hear T moved back to his small rural hometown with his girlfriend and got a job at the hardware store he worked in before college. Have fun mixing paint into your late 20's pal

For more than a year after this all went down, I regularly planted rumors through our mutual friend network that I was still plotting further acts of sabotage. In reality I was focused solely on newly single me and thriving. The last 3 or so years have been mostly good and I have zero regrets.

That being said, man I wish I had gotten to execute my full revenge plan

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Last I heard, about a year ago, is that T and his girlfriend are engaged. Good, I hope they stay together forever to keep each other miserable.

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TL;DR - My best friend and my girlfriend slept together and I learned just how much of a scumbag he was. I sabotaged his car, ran him out of town and planted rumors I was out to get him. I'm living my best life and hes working at a hardware store. I can't wait for my wedding invite

Submitted May 05, 2019 at 09:48AM by SeeY0uSpaceCowboy http://bit.ly/2WjEtnX