When you’re handling a mate’s mobile, let’s be honest, there’s a tiny part of you that’s tempted to have a nosy around.
However, when one lass did just that, she was left heartbroken. She confessed that her “curiosity” got the better of her while she was using her friend’s phone to snap some photos and spotted a text from their other mate pop up.
She insisted that she didn’t mean to open it, but when she did, she saw something that made her blood run cold, prompting her to dig deeper into the matter.
Turning to Reddit’s ‘Am I The A**hole’ forum, she sought advice on whether she was in the wrong for being so horrified by what she stumbled upon, giving some backstory to the tale. She penned: “I have two friends: Gaby and Shelly. All of us are 23 if that matters.”
“We were roommates at college and stayed in the same city after graduation. While the three of us are tight, I’ve always known that Gaby and Shelly are the closest. They share a really sweet friendship.”
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“Shelly is getting hitched. Gaby is the maid of honour and I’m one of the bridesmaids. Over the weekend, I accompanied Shelly to check out wedding dresses. Gaby was supposed to join us but had to rush to work at the eleventh hour.”
“I assisted Shelly in selecting some gowns, and then she went with the consultant to try them on. Shelly requested that I take pictures and videos on her phone to send to her mum and Gaby.”
“I was getting the camera ready when a text from Gaby came through. I didn’t mean to click on it and was instantly going to click back out when I saw one of my Instagram pictures in their private chat from earlier that morning. Both were making fun of me for the face I was making and my outfit choice. It didn’t appear to be very good nature.”
At this point, she admitted that curiosity overruled all other emotions and she searched her name up in the chat they had. She said it was at this point she saw the pair had been “ripping” her pictures “to shreds”.
She continued: “Ranging from selfies to posed shots to even a few baby pictures. They’d also make fun of me in general in terms of the way I talked, wore my hair and the way I ate. This went back as far as I could tell, at least a year.
“My heart broke. It all felt so juvenile and high school. While we all joke around, I would never do this to them nor have they ever even tried to instigate these types of conversations with me about the other one on one. I was in tears.
“As someone who was bullied all through middle and high school, it just brought me back to a horrible place. I put the phone in Shelly’s purse and brought it to another employee, telling her to tell Shelly that I had to go. I drove home and had a long cry.
“Shelly texted me by the time I made it home asking where I went. I said I was going home and we could talk later. When she did call a few hours later, she was understandably confused and hurt that I left. I told her what I found, explaining that I only looked further because of the initial text I accidentally saw. She went off on me for looking through her private texts and said those were none of my business. She also told me I shouldn’t have left the store without saying anything. I said I didn’t want to make a scene but also knew I couldn’t fake being happy for her.”
Instead of saying sorry, Shelly claimed the messages were “all in good fun”, insisting that her love for the original poster was obvious, or else why would she agree to be a bridesmaid?
“She added that I’m only hurt because I chose to read all those texts”, the woman recounted, adding: “Later on, Gaby called to tell me that I invaded Shelly’s privacy and hurt her by walking out.”
“My boyfriend and mum think I did the right thing by walking out. But obviously, they’re a little biased. I just want some unbiased looks: was I an a**hole to look through the texts and then leave? “.
In the comments, folks were absolutely gobsmacked by the messages she stumbled upon, slamming her so-called mates as proper nasty. One user chimed in: “If I was in your place, I think I’d drop out of being in the wedding. It’s one thing to jokingly make fun of someone one time but it seems like they have done this to you a bunch of times.
“And it doesn’t seem like it was light-hearted. If I were you I wouldn’t feel bad about looking through those messages at all, she handed her phone to you and it feels like fate took the opportunity to expose them to you for who they are.”
Another piped up: “‘With friends like this, who needs enemies? ‘, seems painfully apt. The original poster needs to walk away. When she’s no longer an available target, I wonder how long until they take out that ugliness on each other.”
And another person added their two pence: “You may feel bad about looking through her phone, but as far as I can tell she never apologised to you about talking behind your back, and went straight for the offensive. This doesn’t sound like a good friend, who has realised how their actions have hurt you.”