I went to hs with the guy who got me into cosplay. He was kind of autistic and on the low end of the totem pole in hs and I was middle to upper end (only bc I was decent-ish looking and could get alcohol underage). He invited me to hang out with his cosplay crew and some friends of friends at a con, which included a Miku cosplayer he had serious feelings for and was working himself up to ask her out. I ended up getting everyone drunk and hooking up with her during the con and ditching her not long afterwards bc I could smell the crazy a mile away. When he found out he tried to play it cool but the way he looked at me with such vitriol and hatred, I knew how he truly felt. Most of his friends took my side bc he never made a full move on her but I still felt bad bc I knew she was only ever going to be nothing but a fling to me and everything to him but I still smashed anyways, ended up kinda splitting up that friend group too afterwards. 8+ years later and I still feel guilty, I go to cons all over now and he doesn’t really go to any anymore.

Will buddy if youre reading this I’m sorry for the way things turned out in 2016, if I could change the past I’d have hyped you up to her