my lifelong best friend leaked our private conversation to my boss and got me fired so I went nuclear on her I took her job her relationship and her home my lifelong best friend and I worked at the same company and for over a year we were competing for the same promotion I thought it was friendly but she literally ruined my life over it when I got the promotion she didn't congratulate me or tell me she was happy for me instead she leaked our deeply private conversation in this conversation I vented to her about my current
boss and joked about sleeping with the CEO for the promotion I know this was crude but it was to my best friend when I was Tipsy and she knew I was not serious well it wasn't long until I got called into my boss's office and fired what's even worse is that when I came home I found my boyfriend with his things packed I asked him what this was about and he showed me the conversation you see I also vented about him specifically about how sick I was of his mother controlling our life he told me
that his mother comes first and if I don't respect that I'm not the one he left me that day and then came the final blow an edited version of that conversation where I talked bad about my friends was posted on social media I tried to tell my friends that it was fake but nobody believed me I was left totally alone and that was the day I decided I would ruin my ex-best friend's life I wasn't some criminal mastermind however I really didn't know where to start I sat for hours lied awake some nights thinking about
how to get my revenge and yet I couldn't think of anything however one night I decided to just start taking action just start doing something I knew everything about Sophie and I would somehow use all of it against her that's when everything finally clicked I knew exactly what to do first I went after her darkest secret the fact that Sophie had been involved with a married man for years she had always sworn me to secrecy about it and I'd kept my word I never thought it was okay and would always tell her to find her
own man but that was always a sensitive subject whenever we spoke so I respected her wishes until she came to me asking for relationship advice one night she said her and the guy had a date planned and the wife thought he was on a business trip when the time was getting close to the date they planned at the restaurant he stopped responding to her she asked me what she should do and I told her to dump him because there were plenty of men without wives or kids that she could date but she didn't want to
hear that she had his location through an app and saw that he was out of town at the moment even though it was only an hour before their reservation she showed me the text messages between them and he said he was so excited to see her again he also talked about how much he missed her she was completely ready in a beautiful gown and her hair was curled and Sophie rarely ever touched her hair Sophie also never was much of a makeup person until Drew her Affair partner expressed how much he loved women who wore
a certain type of makeup and lo and behold Sophie was wearing makeup that night she ended up calling him and he claimed that he would have to rain check for the evening because he had a flat tire I told her it was a sign just to leave the guy alone but Sophie was adamant she checked his location and said she was going to drive to him his location was an hour and 45 minutes away and he said he was at a nightclub she asked me to come with her and I told her I didn't want
to involve myself in that she said that a true best friend would go with her to make sure she was safe I reluctantly agreed 2 hours later we pulled up to the nightclub and we saw Drew's car there was a long line to get into the club and we knew we'd be standing there all night to see Drew Sophie flirted with the security guard and he let us cut the the line she pushed through the crowd until she found Drew when she found him he was in a section with multiple women and a few other
guys she watched in horror as one of the women proceeded to kiss him and sit in his lap she ran up to him and asked how he could do this to her after everything they'd been through Drew and Sophie had been seeing each other for about 2 years now and he even hinted over text messages that he would leave his wife for her as soon as he was financially stable enough to afford their mortgage by himself and she fell for it time and time again Drew looked shocked when he saw Sophie standing in front of
him and tried to explain Sophie told me to wait for her in the car and that's exactly what I did when she came out she told me it was a misunderstanding and said that they were on good terms again I never questioned her about that relationship or cared much about it after that night until now I went through old text messages photos and anything that could prove the affair I don't know why I never exposed her previously but I wish I had once I had enough I anonymously sent it all to the man's wife the
explosion that followed was bigger than I expected the wife didn't just confront her husband she made it public she posted everything online and dragged Sophie name through the mud our entire friend group saw it people who had once admired Sophie turned their backs on her she was humiliated and for the first time in weeks I felt something close to satisfaction but I wasn't done next I set my sights on her career Sophie worked at a marketing firm you know the same one I had reputation was everything in her line of work and I knew exactly
how to tarnish it I created a fake social media account in her name I bought followers to make her look legit I then posted some of the pictures she had on her profile to the fake account and bought likes to look further less suspicious after having the account for a week I started posting offensive and controversial comments All Over social media nothing too extreme at first just enough to raise eyebrows then I ramped it up the post started attracting attention and soon people were reporting the account at the same time I sent an anonymous letter
to her HR department pretending to be a concerned cooworker I screenshotted the posts and claimed she had been making inappropriate comments in the office too The Firm acted quickly Sophie was called in and by the end of the week she was fired I don't know what exactly went down but I know for a fact that the rumors about her Affair hadn't helped either her professional life was in tatters and once again I felt that dark satisfaction watching her life go to shambles was exactly what I needed I didn't have my job or my boyfriend or
my friends anymore and she no longer had her job or married boy toy I leveled the playing field but still wanted to make sure she knew she had messed with the wrong one her love life was next on my list on top of her boy toy Drew Sophie had been dating a guy named Ryan for a while he was a placeholder until Drew would pop the question and finally leave his wife he seemed nice but I knew that like most people he had insecurities he was originally a friend of both of ours so I knew
getting to him would be quite simple the thing is Ryan was never online he didn't even have a social media account and he distanced himself from every one of Sophie's friends simply because he was so introverted he didn't even know about Sophie's Affair being exposed publicly so I was going to make sure he did getting to him was hard so what I did was find his email his only form of social media if you can even call it that that's how I began planting seeds of doubt I sent him anonymous emails and hinted that Sophie
wasn't who he thought she was I even showed evidence of her cheating the text messages between her and Drew went straight to his email and I even made a little bit of evidence of her talking to other guys little by little I chipped away at his trust in her after weeks of this kind of stuff Ryan finally broke up with her she was devastated I remember seeing a post she made on Instagram something vague about heartbreak and betrayal it almost made me feel bad she did like Ryan but I always knew that she would have
instantly dropped him if Drew ever gave her a chance and that's what made me feel better any normal person would have been done by now but not me finally I went for The Knockout punch her home Sophie lived in a nice apartment downtown but I knew she was barely scraping by whenever I would ask her to go out for brunch or if she wanted to do anything that involved money I would have to pay her way she told me she was barely making it with the cost of living downtown her rent was eating most of
her check but she wanted to look good for her co-workers because most of them also lived in the neighborhood that was another reason she wanted the promotion she said a few extra thousand a year would give her room to breathe while doing something she loved she told me that she'd been laid on rent a couple of times and I used that information to tip off her landlord I sent him an email acting as a credit card company to let him know that her credit usage was high to make him think she wouldn't be able to
pay rent again this month I also spread rumors around her apartment complex about her Affair and how she was mentally unstable the neighbors started complaining and said they feared what she would do since she was mentally unstable and the landlord wanting to avoid any trouble evicted her with no job no boyfriend and now no home Sophie was left with nothing she moved from couch to couch crashing at friends places until even they started to distance themselves I had taken everything from her the same way she had taken everything from me soon after everyone had seen
what had happened to Sophie and how bad of a person she was they didn't want anything to do with her our friend group eventually would start hanging out without her and stop inviting her to birthday parties Ryan and I started talking after he broke up with Sophie and I told him how sorry I was that she had treated him so wrongly he thanked me for being a real friend to him and asked me out for brunch I kindly agreed and gave him a cute smirk for a while I felt that I had won I had
shown her that she couldn't destroy my life without facing the consequences But as time went on something started to shift inside me the satisfaction I felt began to fade replaced by a growing sense of emptiness I became obsessed with her downfall every day I checked to see if there was more news more signs of her crumbling life but the more I watched her the more I realized how much I had sacrificed in my quest for Revenge eventually Ryan stopped talking to me because he said that every time we went on a date I was so
focused on speaking about Sophie instead of trying to get to know him more as a person and see if we were a good match I also should mention throughout this I had gotten a new job one I was very qualified in and expected myself to do well but the problem was that my work performance had plummeted because I was using every waking second thinking about what Sophie had going on instead of how I could better the marketing strategy for the new business I was working for I was isolated angry and bitter much like the person
I had destroyed I was watching a show in my living room to escape the harshness of reality and saw my reflection looking back at me from the black screen I had won the war but at what cost one day I saw Sophie she was sitting alone at a coffee shop and staring at her phone she looked tired and worn out she didn't see me and I didn't approach her but something inside me Twisted as I watched her she looked so small so fragile she wasn't confident or half as vibrant a woman I had once called
my best friend she was a shell of herself and for the first time I didn't feel Victorious I felt empty I had gotten my revenge I had ruined her life but in the process I had ruined my own reflecting on everything I realized how consuming Revenge could be it ate away at me and turned me into someone I didn't recognize I used to think that taking her down would make me feel again and that I would get my life back when she paid for what she'd done but I was wrong Revenge was a poison and
I realized that it doesn't just destroy your enemy it destroys you too I've lost her I've lost myself and I'm left wondering if it was all worth it