A girl told me she wanted to do something with me—a girl I care about very much. I said yes, obviously, and gave her two possible dates to choose from: Tuesday and Friday. She picked Tuesday. On Monday, she canceled our meeting, supposedly because she had forgotten she was going to get her nails done that day. I told her it was fine and we decided on Friday instead.

On Thursday, I messaged her to ask if Friday was still okay, not wanting a repeat of last time, and she replied that it was. But on Friday, she suddenly told me she was having a really hard time and had been stress drinking a lot with two of our mutual friends, which I found weird, usually people binge drink by themselves when they're stressed, but whatever. She said she wasn't sure if she'd even be able to make it all because of all the drinking, and not shortly after, she messaged me again and canceled our meeting completely. I asked her what was wrong (in a non-white-knight-non-orbiter way, I assure you), and she just said she'd tell me later.

A couple hours later she posted a picture of herself playing cards at a bar with aforementioned mutual friends in a group chat I'm in. At some point later she messaged me asking if I was angry now, and I just swiped away the pop up, without opening the message, so I've essentially ghosted her ever since.

Why would someone do this? Just to be cruel? My love life is pathetic enough as is, I don't need deliberate mistreatment like this.