Unfriends and Neighbors

Story Sent in by Bradley:

A couple of months into my relationship with Mary (which by my recollection was going fine), she and I went out with a small group of my friends to a local tavern. She hadn't met many of them before and I thought it would be a fun night.

At the tavern we talked, laughed, and drank. Once the evening was over I drove her back to her place and on the way she asked me, "Is Nick single?"

Nick was one of the friends we had seen that night. I told her, "I think so," thinking that she wanted to set him up with one of her friends.

She asked me a few more questions about him and his personality. I answered them as best as I could, making him look pretty good in the process.

The next day, Nick called me and said, "Mary called me today for a booty call."

I wasn't sure if I understood him correctly. "Mary what?"

"She found my number on my Facebook profile and asked me if I wanted to hook up with her."

As you can imagine, I called Mary up to verify. I asked, "Nick told me you called him. What's going on?"

She said, "He seemed cool so I just called to see if he wanted to hang out sometime."

"He told me you asked him to hook up."

She said, "So?"

"So... you're my girlfriend."

"And?"

I hadn't planned on her being so frank, so I was unprepared to deal with it. "So... uh... do you want to break up?"

"Okay. Off to Nick I go." She hung up.

I called Nick and told him what had happened. I had really liked Mary. We had never fought and she never made it obvious that we were in any sort of trouble. I was hurt that she would end things so matter-of-factly. Nick agreed that Mary was nuts and that neither of us would have anything to do with her from then on.

A week later, Nick's relationship status flicked to "In a relationship" with Mary. I unfriended him immediately.

Shortly afterward, he called. "What the hell, Brad? Way to be mature about everything."

"You're one to talk," I told him, "Enjoy each other."

"We will!" Nick promised me, "I'm sleeping with her tonight." I hung up on him.

Less than two weeks later, Mary broke it off with Nick to pursue yet another guy. How did I find out? An email from Nick. He didn't apologize in it, but instead tried his best to justify his actions and paint himself as a victim.

"I feel like she really betrayed me," he wrote, "If it helps you feel any better, she told me that you and I were both horrible lays."

Surprisingly, it didn't make me feel better. I haven't spoken to either of them since.