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What did I do

What did I do

Jayden seems pretty accustomed to his life in New York. He is adored at his school. He is practically the most popular kid in his grade. I'm glad he actually opened up and made some friends. I know how he can be socially awkward. He has told me about this girl he's friends with. She lives on the same floor as him in this apartment building. Her name is Madeline. Jayden seems to like her. He denies everything I throw at him. From how he talks about her she seems to like him. I think Jayden needs to move on. He needs to let go of his feelings for me because we'll never be a thing, like ever.

So that day I called Jay to discuss it with him.

I didn't want it to seem like I was forcing him to do something he didn't want to. I just want him to move on.

I just simply asked Jayden why doesn't he ask her out. He replies with "why would I do that?"

I told him that I knew that he had some sort of feelings for her. He wouldn't budge. He denied everything. Then he got triggered and started questioning me.

He asked me why would I want to hurt myself.

I didn't understand his question at all. How would anything about this situation hurt me? Jay continued and said that I have feelings for him, so if he dates Madeline, I would be hurting myself.

This had nothing to do with my feelings. This had to do with what's best for Jayden.

After three days of conversing, Jay cracked and agreed to ask her out.

He was so sure that she would reject him. I disagreed. We made a little bet.

I got my twenty bucks transferred to my bank account and he was off planning his date.

For the first couple of weeks in Jay's new relationship, everything was smooth. Madeline wasn't a fan of me. It was understandable. Not a lot of girls would want their boyfriend to have a very close girl best friend.

I used to get a lot of girls jealous of Jayden's friendship with me, it's nothing new.

Some time passed and I started getting some red flags. I would get weird texts from Jay. Then the texts would be deleted. The first couple of times I let them go, I thought that maybe he just sent them to the wrong person.

Then, they began using the nickname Jay uses for me. Those texts were not him I knew they couldn't have been. The texts were for me but not from Jayden. The ones I got more often are signed off with a "-M"

My first initial reaction was, what kind of pretty little liars creepy texting is this girl doing?

Madeline wants me to stay away from Jay. I got that. I ignored them, found them humorous actually. Then she started going in for a kill. She was clearly taunting me and it was getting under my skin. I began to screenshot the messages. If I was going to do anything I needed proof.

I still didn't think it was important to tell Jay because he was enjoying his time with her. Jayden soon recognized my changes in mood. He starting questioning me. I brushed off his questions. So he began making assumptions.

Jayden continued to ask questions just so his assumptions didn't seem too far off the bullseye.

No, I didn't like Madeline. She gave me bad vibes. But she did somewhat make Jay happy, so I wasn't going to go further down that conversation.

Jayden assumed that I was jealous of his relationship because I have feelings for him.

Madeline made things worse by having the audacity to compare herself to me. She compared our lifestyles, and how much or how little we mean to Jayden. Who does she think she is?