We’ve all stumbled across something we shouldn’t have — a discovery we didn’t want to make but made, nonetheless.
The worst kind is when it’s involving someone you thought you could trust.
A woman who was about to be a bridesmaid for one of her best friends has made a shocking text message discovery — which led to her to storm out of a bridal shop.
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The bridesmaid has now written a lengthy post on the events leading to her dramatic exit, asking Reddit users how they feel about the scenario.
She says she has two best friends from university, Gaby and Shelly.
While the trio are all in a tight-knit friendship, she’s always known Gaby and Shelly are the closest.
Shelly is getting married and Gaby is her Maid of Honour, with the woman the bridesmaid.
The woman said that, over the weekend, she went wedding dress shopping with the bride after Gaby was unable to attend due to work commitments.
However, trouble arose when Shelly went to try on some dresses and asked the woman to take pictures and videos on her phone so she could send some to her mum and Gaby.
“I was getting the camera ready when a text from Gaby came through,” the bridesmaid said.
“I didn’t mean to click on it, and was instantly going to click back out, when I saw one of my Instagram pictures in their private chat from earlier that morning.
“Both were making fun of me for the face I was making and my outfit choice.
“I admit, curiosity got the best of me, so I searched my name in the chat, and I found multiple pictures that I, my boyfriend or my mum have posted of myself, (with Shelly and Gaby) absolutely ripping them (the images) to shreds.”
The bridesmaid said the comments had brutally criticised everything about her — ranging from her selfies to posed shots to even her baby pictures.
“They’d also make fun of me in general in terms of the way I talked, wore my hair and the way I ate,” she said.
“This went back, as far as I could tell, at least a year.”
The woman said her “heart broke” and that it felt “so juvenile and high school”.
“Whilst we all joke around, I would never do this to them, nor have they ever even tried to instigate these types of conversations with me about the other, one on one.”
The bridesmaid said she left the bridal shop in tears: “As someone who was bullied all through middle and high school, it just brought me back to a horrible place.”
She put the phone back in Shelly’s purse and gave it to an employee at the shop, asking her to tell Shelly that she had to go.
Shelly then texted her to ask where she had gone, but the woman just replied saying she had gone home and the two could speak later.
When Shelly called her a few hours later, the bride-to-be was confused and hurt that her friend had left so abruptly.
The woman then told her what she had discovered, saying that she had only looked further because of the initial texts that she had seen.
The bride-to-be then apparently chastised her friend for “looking through her private texts” and said “they were none of her business”.
Shelly said the messages were “all in good fun” and that she “clearly loves her friend because she asked her to be a bridesmaid”.
Shelly then said her friend was “only hurt because she chose to read all the texts”.
As if the situation couldn’t get any worse, Gaby then called the woman and said she had “invaded Shelly’s privacy and hurt her by walking out”.
‘Mean girls’
The perplexed bridesmaid finished her Reddit post by saying that her boyfriend and mum think she made the right decision by walking out.
“Obviously they’re a little biased but I just want some unbiased opinions. Was I an a**hole to look through the texts and then leave?” she wrote.
The woman’s post attracted more than 2,000 comments, many quick to side with her.
“If I was in your place, I think I’d drop out of being in the wedding. It’s one thing to jokingly make fun of someone one time but seems like they have done this to you a bunch of times,” one said.
“And it doesn’t seem like it was light-hearted. If I were you, I wouldn’t feel bad about looking through those messages at all. She handed her phone to you and feels like fate took the opportunity to expose them … for who they are.”
Another added: “You may feel bad about looking through her phone, but as far as I can tell she never apologised to you about talking behind your back, and went straight for the offensive.”
A third wrote: “Neither of these girls is your friend. They are deceitful mean girls who didn’t even have the decency to apologise after you found out that they were being mean to you and secretly ganging up on you.”
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