I'm drunk and it's a Sunday and I'm missing my old best friend and feel like telling this story to someone so 4chan it is because I really don't have anyone to confide in.

>Late 2000s, high school senior year, I don't remember why exactly but I look up my best friend's Xbox live gamertag, I think I thought it was a reference to something.
>Don't find what I'm looking for but see a result for the profile of someone with the same name on a poker forum of all places.
>Out of curiosity, read it. Maybe I shouldn't have. Either way, I figure out very quickly that it is my friend, and he talks pretty openly there about being gay, which was new information for me. He also mentions a secret relationship he was in. He had also made a couple of posts that I could tell were about me and commenting on my body, and by that point it felt too snoopy/uncomfortable so I stopped
>I deduce the secret relationship is with another guy in our shared friend group, who I didn't like but never clashed with too hard, and my friend liked him, obviously.
>I had just gotten out of a pretty bad breakup, my ex gf told me that I never cared about or did anything for anyone, and she was right. I was kinda a psychopath then.
>I start dropping hints I'm supportive of gay people so he can feel comfortable telling me
>Month later, calls me at about 10pm the night before his birthday clearly pretty distraught and asks me to come over. I bring weed to calm him down because it was the only thing that worked when he got in his own head
>He's been crying and asks me to sit down with him, we start smoking the weed I brought. He asks if I know that he's gay, and I tell him I do know already.
>He explains the whole situation, from start to finish, stuff I did know and stuff I didn't. He ends with telling me about the breakup, how his secret boyfriend didn't want to go public with the relationship when my friend felt ready to come out, and they broke off because of that.

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