Hi everyone!! I wasn't going to post this, as this started over a 2 years ago, but I have been updated recently and I feel the need to share it to someone. It's a long one but I promise it's juicy. Before starting, sorry for the mistakes, as I'm not a native speaker and there will probably be some of them here and there. Also, names have been changed.

Soooo as I said, this story started about 2 years ago. I (23F) met my partner Jay (26M) through a mutual friend called Sarah (26F) in march 2023. Sarah and I had a good relationship when she introduced me to some of his friends, including Jay, and I started to like him from the start tbh. From that day on, I got Jay's number and we kept in contact, chatting from time to time. Sarah, Jay and I are from 3 different cities, so we could just hang out about once a month or two.

Between those times thay we got to see each other I kept talking to both of them individually, and I was really thankful that Sarah had introduced me to Jay, as we kept getting closer. At this point, it's important to note that Sarah has her own boyfriend, Ian (26M), and at that point they had been together for around 6-7 years.

The next time we could all hang out was in June. I was excited to see both again (I had met Ian but we didn't really connect, we didn't have a bad relationship or anything like that, it's just that we didn't click as friends, but we were cool). That day, Jay and I had our first kiss and started talking about making it official. Then, I invited him over at my house in my city, and he asked if Sarah and Ian could also come, to which I obviously said yes. That may have been a mistake, as it would unfold everything that would happen for the next year and a half.

In August, Jay came a few days earlier so we could talk things and we decided to start officially dating, so we were excited to tell Sarah and Ian once they arrived. A couple days later, when we were all there, we told them the news, and I'll just say that they weren't impressed neither happy. I didn't expect much from Ian, but Sarah's reaction was something on the lines of "oh, okay". Not a congratulations or even a hint of a smile. But I didn't think much of it. That same day we went grocery shopping and when we got back, Sarah locked herself in the bedroom for 2 hours straight without saying anything. I later found our that it was because we had been talking about university and that was somehow a triggering topic for her, as she had to repeat one of her subjects but had forgotten to sign up or something like that. Which I thought was a bit of an overreaction (she was really 2 hours locked in the room), but I thought it was also maybe because of the tiredness of the trip. There were some more instances like that when they were at my home, but I think you get the idea... I also forgot to mention that, never at any point did Sarah nor Ian thank me for staying at my house, not even help me clean after them (not just bedrooms but even when we finished eating, I was always the one doing the dishes). Which again, I didn't say anything against them since I just wanted for all of us to have a great time together.

A couple weeks later I came to find out that Sarah was mad at Jay, and for what? Because somehow it was his fault that she had been locked in her room for 2 hours the first day, and for every other instance that had happened. The weird thing is that it wasn't Sarah that told Jay she was mad at him, but Ian. Ian was telling Jay that Sarah was mad with him. And the best part is, when I tried talking to her (I sent a very gentle message in the lines of "hey, is everything okay? I heard from Jay that you're not feeling very well after our trip) she just told me that everything was alright. Meanwhile I had been seeing the messages Jay had received both from Ian and Sarah, and they were in fact not "alright".

This is when I started realising that there were some red flags.

From this point on, every 3-4 weeks Sarah had a problem with Jay for anything. I remember one of them being that Jay hadn't been able to respond to her messages for a full day, and she had a meltdown over that. The thing is Ian was always involved too, also sending audios to Jay saying that he regrets the day Jay and Sarah became friends because he was always causing problems to her, and she was mentally unstable because of him. And the thing is, Sarah would never talk to me if I didn't start the conversation, and obviously she would never talk to me about this, so I was really confused. At one point I started wandering if the problem was me appearing in Jay's life, and that she was jealous. But jealous of what?? She has a boyfriend already, and Jay having a girlfriend didn't mean that he was less of a friend to her??? I was so confused, and Jay was too. He started distancing himself from them little by little.

Sadly, in December 2023, a tragic event happened in Sarah's life that led to her needing support of her friends, including Jay, and a new character that I'll introduce now, Thomas (24M). Thomas had been involved in their weird friendship even before I appeared in the picture, but didn't hang out with them as much. However, after this event, Sarah and Thomas started growing closer. Jay had to back to his city as his finals were approaching whilst Thomas could stay, as he neither studies nor works, and Sarah took note of that. During this difficult time Sarah was having I also sent her messages, and told her to call me whenever she needed or was ready to talk about it over a call, since I live really far away and I couldn't visit. But I tried to make sure she felt I was also a person she could rely on.

Well all of a sudden Sarah was not talking to Jay, not responding to messages, and Thomas was going to visit her every weekend without Jay knowing (Jay and Thomas live in the same city, so before this event, they always went together to visit Sarah and Ian). Jay then decided to distance himself from that situation, and we didn't really know about any of them for months. He tried inviting Sarah to his city a couple times, but she either not responded on time, or said she had things going on already.

Then, the true tea started.

On May 2024, Ian suddenly called Jay out of nowhere, and started "confessing" some things that had been going on. It turns out that Sarah and Ian had been visiting Jay's city without telling him during all those months, to just visit Thomas and talk shit about Jay (that somehow had all the blame for everything). Also, Sarah and Thomas had been getting weirdly close, holding hands in public, sending long texts about how much do they love each other (as "siblings" obviously) and talking with about an inch and a half between their faces, and Ian was getting suspicious, I wonder why. Jay then decided he wanted to talk to them and solved things out, and I must say I couldn't support his decision, since I didn't like the idea of Jay going back into that "friendship" again. But I also didn't stop him, I just told him what I thought, and he understood my point but decided to mend things anyway, to which I just wished him good luck.

They went all 4 of them to Sarah and Ian's city for a couple days (Jay was staying at Ian's house and Thomas at Sarah's), but the last day Thomas disappeared without notice, so Jay talked to Sarah privately about what Ian had told him. Then, after a lot of convincing, Sarah said that Thomas had confessed her feelings for her just before they were all together, but she decided not to tell Ian AND still hang out with him for whatever reason. Also, her WhatsApp conversation with Thomas was completely deleted, she said because Thomas told her to delete everything. So yeah...

Jay then went to my city, and when we were together, everything started to truly unfold. Thomas had not in fact deleted his conversation with Sarah, and there were A LOT of love messages between them, not just from Thomas to Sarah. They started accusing eachother of lying and manipulating the situation (Sarah even tried to convince Jay that Thomas had logged into her WhatsApp account from his laptop, written all those messages, and then deleted them from Sarah's account so she wouldn't be able to read them like wtf, is Thomas working in the FBI?).

Ian for who knows what, decided to believe Sarah and cut Jay off, as he wasn't defending her. They had a couple calls here and there, Jay trying to convince Sarah to go to therapy, as it would be very beneficial to her. She obviously declined saying she doesn't need it, and that since Jay was pressuring her, he was no longer a real friend. Well things ended a bit tense, and Sarah blocked us both Jay and me on WhatsApp, and only Jay on Instagram.

Jay then learned around September 2024 that Thomas had been going to therapy after this, and apologised to Jay (which was a good sign because he would never take accountability for his actions), so Jay thought everything was getting clearer. At this point there was 0 contact with Sarah and Ian.

And now after months of knowing nothing, as we really didn't care about updates at this point, we were just drained, we have a JUICY one.

Ian called Jay just a couple days ago to announce that he broke up with Sarah. It turns out that she had been going to Thomas's city behind Ian's back and they were messaging each other again. And Ian only found out because Sarah left his phone locked in a conversation with Thomas, and Ian unlocked it by accident (they use face ID so it unlocked by itself). When the phone opened, the conversation was there, and the last messages sent between both of them were "I love you". The cherry on top was when Ian told Sarah that she was cheating and had been unfaithful this whole time, her response was "I'm not cheating, I'm just hiding one thing from you" (priceless I know, I'm thinking of putting it in my bedroom door).

So yeah, Ian finally dumped her and now she is all alone and doesn't have any friends apart from Thomas. And I may seem like the villain for this, but I felt so relieved when I learned these news, I was so happy that Ian was finally free, and that the two pathological liars are together for their own sake. And I have the impulse right now to, if I ever cross paths again with her, to just laugh at her face, as her own actions led to this outcome. I don't know, maybe I'm petty like that, or maybe I'm the A-hole, but I don't care.