College Friend Was A
Manipulative Predator

by Liv

In my freshman year of college I befriended a girl who I thought was a bit conceited and arrogant and always seemed to be having disputes with her roommate and her roommates’ friends. I overlooked these qualities in her because I thought that she was just socially awkward but with a good heart.

After the first semester, she would refer to me as her “best friend”, but when I spent a few weeks at her house over the summer, she changed, isolating herself from me and being very aloof, even throwing tantrums over very minor things, but warming to me when I threatened to leave early.

This fall, she planned my birthday but then sexually assaulted one of my friends when we were all drunk (and she tried to steal my liquor). She tried to guilt trip me into answering her dozens of calls and voicemails when I found out what she had done, making me and the friend she assaulted out to be bad people. In those messages she had no remorse, so I let her mother and boyfriend know what had happened, and I confronted her over text.

This happened a month ago and I’m still dealing with the disgust of letting someone as manipulative as her into my life for so long.