my manipulative boyfriend pulled a cheating prank on me on my birthday so I left and went MIA for days he somehow convinced me to stay with him but then revealed a disturbing secret about the prank last week was my birthday so I got off work early but when I came home I saw a random woman lying on my boyfriend when he saw me jumped up then got in between me and the door as I had turned around to leave it's just a prank sweetheart he said and out of nowhere 10 of his friends came downstairs
with a cake and presents I was crying as I thought I had just been cheated on but my boyfriend told me to stop I know you said you didn't want a party but don't you think this is cool I kept crying however and that's when he got more aggressive oh my God stop being so sens POS it was just a prank I put all this effort in so you could have a fun time and you're crying I immediately pushed him out of the way and walked out got in my car and drove off while driving
my phone started to get bombarded by texts calls and messages from my boyfriend and our friends when it got too distracting I just turned off my phone and went to a hotel that's far enough from my place by the time I got to my hotel room I just started sobbing the next morning I made sure to tell my team leader first that I would be absent for a few days due to an emergency and she was kind enough to accept my request she probably noticed something was off with me because I was sniffling and my
voice sounded weak right now I plan on telling my aunt who lives near my area about what happened and asking if I could live with her for a couple of days until I sort out my mind and know what I have to do next I'm deeply heartbroken because I've told my boyfriend and my friends before how I felt about cheating and how it essentially ruined my family growing up and my young mind back then my mom cheated on my dad and it broke our family and I got cheated on by my first boyfriend and I
don't know how to face and respond to them all after all that has happened maybe some time away from them will help I hope update one I packed my things and prepared to go to my aunt's house which wasn't that far but still a bit of a drive nonetheless when I finally got there she was incredibly welcoming and I thanked her for allowing me to stay in her house even just for a while she gave me a tight hug and told me I was always welcome and that she will be there to help me when
I need her to she eventually led me to the spare bedroom that they have in their house and helped me unpack my stuff she is honestly such an incredible woman and I love her so much she's basically the mom I've always wanted once I was done unpacking I was again confronted by the fact that I haven't opened my phone for quite some time now I've avoided it for so long that I didn't think I could open it again but I knew I had to the moment my phone booted up hundreds upon hundreds of texts chats
and missed calls popped up on my screen even if I was still hesitant I decided to open my chats and looked at our friend groups group chat first the chats from the start were all very frantic in nature with my friends asking about where I was or what happened but after scrolling down a few more times the chats turned into them apologizing that the prank happened and that it was not on the plan at all one of my friends even blamed the girl that was on top of Alex my BF and thought she was untrustworthy
finally the chats ended up being them hoping they could contact me and wishing I was safe I guess they knew I just read their chats because as soon as I was done back reading my friends immediately knew I was online and asked how I was doing and where I was they also started apologizing again for not being able to stop the prank from happening and that they didn't know that was going to happen and thought the original prank was going to be something else at this point I was thoroughly confused because they seemed happy enough
to be there during that night but I knew I had to apologize to them first for ghosting them and asking their side of the story first before speaking about what had happened essentially they were simply planning a surprise birthday party for me with Alex in a group chat that didn't include me then my BF added a few more people into the group chat saying that they were College friends of his and he wanted them to be a part of the surprise party too since they also wanted to meet and get to know me better as
a suggestion one of my boyfriend's College friends pitched the idea of them pranking me the plan was my BF is going to be on the couch with a Serial univ holding a red knife and fake stabbing my BF while the univ was on top of him and while my boyfriend is reading out everywhere my bf's college friends thought it would be funny to see my reaction although my friends were initially skeptical they reassured them that it would be harmless fun and that once my bef and the friend who will be acting as the UN olivver
got their desired reaction on camera they can just tell me that it was all a prank and my friends and my bf's other college friends would come out and surprise me with their gifts and stuff my friends eventually agreed so as long as they don't drag out the prank and immediately reveal everything once they captured my reaction on camera the day my birthday comes and everything they've planned seem to be going smoothly with them waiting for me my bf's college friends ushered everyone to hide while they set up the prank and when it was done
they would hide to when they finally heard my BF say they can come out they thought the prank was a success because I looked absolutely mortified but they knew something was up when even after the prank was revealed I was still looking shocked and almost teary eyed even until I finally turned around and left they were understandably Shook and confused thinking the serial killer prank was too much but knowing me I wouldn't have minded it at all since I love scary movies and an avid horror enjoyer that was then they realized that my bf's female
college friend was on top of my BF not wearing any costume and not holding any fake red knife they then saw my BF pushing his female college friend away from him and chasing after me some of them also tried to follow me while some were asking what happened to the original plan even my bf's other college friends were wondering why their female friend wasn't in costume but she was just silent after a few minutes my BF came back to our apartment looking distraught and crying he then tells everyone that they should all go and proceeds
to go to our bedroom they wanted to ask him what happened but he shut the door before they could his female college friend Then followed him inside which really weirded them out but after a while they hear my BF shouting at her telling her her to f off she then goes out the door on the verge of tears and leaves the apartment they said everything happened so fast that they didn't know how to process all that had happened not too long after that though they realized that I was missing and started calling and texting me
but I didn't respond to any of them eventually I was unreachable I turned off my phone and decided they should just go home and wait for me to respond my bf's college friends apologized profusely to what has happened and didn't mean for any of this to happen but they basically just ignored them they Then followed their retelling of their side with videos that they've recoded that proved their accounts along with an apology and wishing that I was doing well after my friends told me what happened on their point of view I felt really terrible and
apologized again for ghosting them and telling them that everything that happened was none of their fault I told them that I would make it up to them soon but they reassured me that they accept my apology and are just happy that I'm alive and well they also pitched to have a late birthday celebration with me this weekend and my boyfriend and his friends aren't included this time I of course happily agreed and thanked them for being such great friends and that I really couldn't thank them enough for being such an awesome bunch of people the
morning of the next day my aunt knocks on my door and wakes me up telling me that I have a visitor downstairs she looked a bit mad so I can already tell who it was it was my boyfriend Alex caring this beautiful bouquet of flowers and my favorite chocolates with him even if he looked amazing his face was the complete opposite because he looked like he was crying for days I asked him how he found out about where I was and told me that once I turned on my phone again an app on my phone
notified him of my whereabouts I was a bit frustrated that he actually came here to my aunt's house but nevertheless he was already there so might as well just hear him out on what he had to say he basically reiterated what my friends told me but he added in some more details that my friends didn't know about apparently his old College friends reconnected with him after he lost touch with them after they graduated they found his Facebook account through some searching and wanted to ask him about his life after all these years they were especially
happy when he told them that he currently has a boyfriend because they secretly knew he was bisexual but didn't want to make assumptions or make him feel weird about it Alex eventually tells them about me and he mentions that him and our friends are planning a secret birthday surprise for me and they immediately wanted to be a part of it after they were added to the group chat they started suggesting ideas on how to make the surprise much more fun until their female friend will'll call her Anna suggested that they do a prank to surprise
me Alex's College friends were immediately on board because they saw Tik toks of it and they thought it was really funny but my friends were obviously skeptical eventually they agreed what the prank is going to be and that the prank wouldn't take too long Anna volunteered to be the serial on a liver since it was her idea and they all went and did their parts of the surprise so that everything would be ready when my birthday comes the day of the surprise party comes and everyone prepares for my arrival when Anna and Alex went into
their assigned positions for the prank he wondered why she still wasn't in her costume and that her props was missing but all she could reply was that she forgot Alex offers to find the costume and props but Anna insists that there's no more time and that I was going to arrive soon Alex at this point was extremely uncomfortable and wanted to get out of their position but before he could do it I've already opened the door and saw them he admits that he messed up and so he called everyone to come out to save himself
from the embarrassment and give context to what I was seeing when he realized that that didn't work he got caught up in the emotions of it all and that's why he spoke to me in such an aggressive and ill-mannered way when I left he said he forcefully pushed Anna away to chase after me but he wasn't able to keep up once I got into my car it then sunk into him that he messed up big time and that when I drove away that's when he remembered my trauma about cheating which made him cry while returning
to our apartment he tells everyone to leave and Retreats to our bedroom not really knowing what to do to his shock Anna comes inside our room unannounced and starts comforting Alex he repeatedly tells her to leave and that he'll be fine but what really set him off was Anna asking him so does that mean you're single now that's when he realized she did it on purpose Alex then shouts at her and angrily asks her to leave which she then complies to after looking like she just embarrassed herself Alex is in tears at this point and
he tells me that he wishes he just didn't agree with the prank he's cut off contact with his college friends for now and is incredibly sorry about what happened he then starts hugging me really tightly and says that he loves me so much and that he's scared of losing me his words alone also made me cry because even after everything I still love him deeply and I do believe everything he said after a minute or two of was hugging and crying he lets go of me and tells me that we should back together to our
apartment but that if I still need time and space he'll gladly give it to me I gave him a kiss and respond to him with me asking him to help me pack my stuff of course I gave my aunt the warmest of hugs and told her how much I appreciated her for helping me she was happy things got resolved but also jokingly threatened my boyfriend that if he did something stupid or hurtful to me again she'll personally whisk me away to safety and away from him my boyfriend laughed but I think he was just hiding
his nervousness now I'm back in our apartment and Alex even offered to throw away the couch that was used for the prank but I declined since it's a pretty nice couch and everything that has happened was something no one wanted aside Anna probably I've already made amends with my boyfriend and we've both forgiven each other and my friends are happy that things worked out in the end update too so a few days later Alex came up to me while sobbing and confessed that he hadn't told me the complete truth about Anna apparently him and Anna
were a couple back then she was his first girlfriend and he did a lot of his first with her once they graduated Anna broke things off with him because she can't handle long-distance relationships and didn't want to be tied down yet Anna breaking up with him caused him to go into a spiral and develop severe depression it took a lot of work for him to get out of that hole and be a functioning human adult again but things apparently didn't completely change for the better for him until he met me as I quote I was
the light at the end of the tunnel that he desperately wanted to get out of but I guess ghosts from the past have their way of coming back to haunt you a few weeks before my birthday Alex's College friends found his Facebook and contacted him to reconnect things went well for them until he was added into their group chat that had Anna in it as well as what he said it definitely reignited some old feelings that he had and it also didn't help that Anna was acting like nothing bad happened between the two of them
they agreed to meet to catch up one thing led to another until that one thing ended up being them having intimacy every day up until the birthday surprise LEL it only really hit him how much he messed up and realized that he was doing something incredibly crappy when he saw my devastated face after seeing Anna on top of him for the prank that they supposedly planned for me according to him he was trying to bring back those strong feelings and emotions that he once felt back when he was with Anna but seeing me look ruined
and distraught made him realize that what he had with me was incomparable to what him and Anna had so I guess that's what led him to confess and be all remorseful of course I had to hear him apologize and cry in front of me and I did cry too but I couldn't bear being around him anymore after hearing all of that I then calmly told him that I accept his ol ology but that I didn't want to be with him anymore and that I'd be leaving the apartment and sort things out once we're both in
clearer states of mind he didn't like that one bit and started sobbing like crazy and even went as far as hugging me incredibly tight just so that I wouldn't go it was a struggle but I eventually got out of his clutches by pushing him away hard enough I ran as fast as I could to get to my car and immediately headed to my aunt's house when I got there I just sobbed into my aunt's arms and felt incredibly weak she probably understood why I was crying that much without asking me why so she started consoling
me until I was too tired to cry and slept yesterday I got a call from a friend of Alex that he's in the hospital after being found unresponsive I didn't want to go because I'm obviously still heard about everything but Alex doesn't have any family anywhere near him and I'm the only one who knows about his medical history and details and technically his closest family so I had to right now I'm outside his hospital room waiting for his doctors to give me an update or tell me anything or something that I should do he also
hasn't woken up yet so I'm bracing myself for when he does truthfully I do still love him very much but what he did just made it clear for me that we're not meant to be together I don't know what I'll do moving forward after all of this but I'll just let the universe take the wheel for me at this point I just wish things didn't end up this way