One of my best friends asked out my crush of 4 years to prom and told me after the half term began so I couldnt do anything about it
For background, this is one of my best friends and he knows I've liked this girl for so long. Basically what happened is I've been building up courage to ask this girl to dance at prom, she is a good friend of ours a long with the rest of her friend group, but with how long I've liked her, she did eventually find out a while back though we never spoke about it. My friend and her began talking more often and eventually they were texting a lot, they dated in the past but they no longer like eachother.
Not too long ago my friend told me that she asked her about her going out with me and if she would ever do it, to which she said "I would never go out with him", along with "I would rather go out with you then him" and he told me fairly bluntly. Now one of my main issues I during my interactions with friends I remain quite stoic in the sense of things like this, so I simply played it off like a small issue.
A few days after this on the last day untill the half term he texts me "by the way me and Hala are going to prom together as friends", yet he emphasized how he doesn't like her and honestly doesn't even care too much about going with her, simply stating "neither of us had a date so were going together". He justified asking her by reminding me that he confirmed I had no chance, but I have no idea how that makes him doing this fine. Keep in mind they do not like eachother at all romantically.
I'm pretty sure he told me this at the last day after school ended over text because he didn't want me to do anything or didn't want to face me, but now I have to mentally deal with this along with upcoming exams as I'm currently prepping for GCSEs plus now there is absolutely nothing I can do about this
I'm conflicted on weather or not I can even see him as my best friend now because who would do this to their friends. I'm dreading watching them together during prom now and cannot understand why he asked her to prom if he doesn't even like her like that while knowing about how I feel. He also says he doesn't want to dump her right after because he would feel bad, but he ended a relationship 2 weeks prior in probably the worst way possible for the girl so I don't understand that either.
I've asked another of my best friends about this but after I told them of them they simply said "so?" And said that it's alright that David asked her to prom because "he makes her happy". Now I'm incredibly conflicted about how to take this along with torn about what to do now. Do I stop this, ghost him? Do consider him my friend even?? Help me out