Every week, @galenkp has some writing suggestions for the weekend, and I really liked the topics for this weekend because all of them are really interesting to write about. For mine, I picked "Doing it or not" because I had a similar experience in the past.
It was a few years back when my best friend started developing feelings for a girl who was our childhood friend. We didn't hang out with her every day, but we were together at school, lived two blocks away from each other, and attended similar extracurricular activities. While we weren't that close, we were still friends. The girl was really good-looking, and we both found her beautiful. From time to time, we flirted with her, but nothing ever happened. However, Jim started developing feelings for her over time, so I stopped flirting because I could see that he was getting frustrated every time it happened.
One day, we decided to invite her and some of her girlfriends out for a night on the town. What could be better than being in your 20s and going out with four or five really good-looking girls? Nothing. So, after some drinks, a lot of dancing, and a lot of fun, Jim told her about his feelings. While at first she seemed unresponsive, they hooked up and after some dates, they got into a relationship.
I was really happy for Jim because he really liked her, but it was obvious after some time together that she wanted to spend her 20s going out and having fun, while he wanted to spend more time alone with her, watching movies, going on romantic dinners, etc. This difference in life views started to create cracks in their relationship, and they were fighting a lot and very often.
At that point, Jim was studying in another city and was away during the week, coming home on weekends. But one weekend, he stayed there to study for a big Monday test he had. So, his girlfriend invited me to go out with her and her gang of girls, and of course, I said yes. There was one of them that I had liked and had been trying to hook up with for a while, so I thought it was a great opportunity.
And so, we went out, started drinking, laughing, and dancing. I was trying to flirt with her friend, and at some point, it happened. My friend's girlfriend asked me to go out with her to talk, and she was really upset. From what it seemed, she was having a text fight with Jim. I couldn't say no, so I followed her, and she started talking about their relationship and how he had feelings for Jim but was jealous and pressuring her. She started crying, and I started telling her not to cry, that everything would be okay. Then boom, she tried to kiss me. I pulled away, saying that she was in a relationship with my best friend, but she said she wanted to break things off and that we could hook up.
Now, she was and still is a really beautiful woman that anyone would have said yes to that proposition, but at that moment, I knew that I could have sex with her in exchange for losing my best friend, whom I had known since I was five, so I just left.
The next morning, she broke it off with him, and I told him everything that happened the previous night. Jim, of course, didn't get mad at me or her. He understood that their relationship was becoming toxic, and sooner or later, they would go their separate ways.
After some years, she and I found our way back to each other on a common night out with friends, and we finally had the night we didn't have some years back. We also got into a relationship.
The scenarios presented by @galenkp raises ethical concerns and requires careful consideration of one's values and morals. The reason I liked them so much is because a writing about such a past experience after years have past can reveal a lot of things about our past self and the progress we have made over the years.
All photos have nothing to do with the theme but in some way they do fit !