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I was in school, and today we had rollerblading in PE. There’s this boy in my grade — I’ll call him Mark — who was struggling really badly with balance. He looked like he was about to wipe out every five seconds, so I decided to help him. I grabbed his hand so he wouldn’t fall and explained how to glide and keep balance.

Important context: I knew Mark had a girlfriend, “Amy.” But I didn’t realize their relationship was apparently treated like a full-blown national security issue.

Amy has a history of being really aggressive and dramatic. She’s screamed at people before, bullied people, and once literally kicked a girl’s broken leg. So she already has a reputation for overreacting and being mean.

Now here’s where things get chaotic.

Earlier as a joke, me and my friends spun a random name wheel and fake wrote a cheesy love note to Mark. We slid it onto his desk as a prank. I didn’t actually write the note myself, but I was part of the group that thought it was funny, so I’ll take responsibility for that part.

Apparently Amy found out about both the note and the hand-holding thing from PE.

Later she confronted me in the hallway and immediately started yelling and crying. She screamed, “What did you do?!”

I was genuinely confused, so I said, “Explain further maybe?”

Then she goes, “You wrote that note, didn’t you? I know because [friend] saw you holding hands with Mark!”

At that point I didn’t want to throw my friend under the bus by saying who actually wrote it, so I just said, “No, my handwriting doesn’t even look like that. And why are you making such a huge deal out of this? Mark only wants one girl, and it’s you.”

Instead of calming down, she started crying harder and yelling more while acting like I’d committed some unforgivable betrayal.

What stunned me most is that she seriously seemed convinced I was trying to steal her boyfriend.

Here’s another layer to this: I’m mostly closeted aro-spike, gay, and trans (FtM). Mark actually knows this already. So in my head I was like… if Amy thinks I’m masterminding some evil seduction plot because I helped a guy not fall on rollerblades, she might need to calm down.

But here’s the part where I might actually sound bad.

I did have a crush on Mark.

Not in a “I’m trying to break them up” way, and not when I helped him during PE. I genuinely was just trying to help him skate. But yeah, part of me did want to become closer with him eventually. Mostly because I liked talking to him and wished he’d text or call me more often. I liked being around him. That’s the honest truth.

Still, I never planned on confessing to him, sabotaging their relationship, or flirting with him while they were dating.

Then things somehow got even worse later in the day.

In another class, I was quietly writing in my diary about all this drama because I was stressed out. A guy from this super nosy group nearby looked over and suddenly yelled, “I KNEW YOU WROTE THE LETTER! YOU’RE WRITING ANOTHER ONE, AREN’T YOU?”

I wasn’t. I was literally just journaling because I was upset.

Now I’m nervous about going to school tomorrow because rumors spread insanely fast at my school, and Amy is the type of person who escalates things instead of letting them go.

AITA?

(P.S. I used AI to summarize stuff because I am not good at writing.)

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