AITA for using my family business to manipulate someone into acknowledging me?
I, 18 (F), have been helping out my parents in our family business while on my gap year, or as Mother likes to call it “the time I am wasting not accepting any wedding proposals from pureblooded gits”. Anyway, I was perusing the forum the other day, and came upon a throwaway account for one of the Wizarding World’s most recognisable former Death Eaters, and my heart just fluttered.
Said wizard got into a ridiculous peacock fight at a gala and sort of humiliated his famous girlfriend’s ex (a known ginger), and whilst he was asking for advice, I saw my chance and had to grab it.
You see, said blond prat has a best friend (24 M), and that said best friend has been supplying my family’s business for ages, and I just think he is drop dead gorgeous. In fact, I have thought that for years, since I was quite a few years behind him, but also in the house that looks good in green. At the time, I was but a child, but I always thought he was just yummy. And I still do. The trouble is: I am ridiculously shy and any time he pops at the office for some business, you can’t get a squeak out of me, and I am sure he thinks my parents have placed me under Silenzio.
And that brings me to my issue: knowing the blond prat was friends with the object of my affection, I concocted a wild plan to insert myself in the picture through our family business, so as to trigger a reaction and a possible encounter with *him* (gorgeous 24M, as I’ve mentioned). But… our family business is not exactly Ministry-regulated, blond prat got all huffy, we got a visit from the Dark Artifacts Division, and Papa is just furious with me (and he doesn’t even know about the package I sent to some place called The Burrow, whatever that is).
Furthermore, the Adonis has not visited our establishment to set matters straight, and I fear that all his friends now hate me (blond prat at the front).
What do you think? AITA? Did I ruin it? Did I show too much initiative? Am I doomed to marry Cordelius Flint, who was in my year and has no chin? How do I make this right? I just wanted to talk to *him* (and snog him senseless).