It’s Tortilla Time|

Yesterday my friend Tammy and I were hanging out at her place, as per our usual regime on weekends. We had already had a sleepover and I had spent the majority of the day with her. Our visit was cut short when my mum called and instructed me to come home for dinner. I knew that we were going out proceeding dinner, so I told Tammy that we may or may not be able to hang out after, depending on the time I got home.

We returned home from our outing and decided to have a fire in our backyard (this is a post in itself, I will elaborate later.) My mum’s boyfriend and his daughter were over, and we were having a good time. Tammy called whilst we were around the fire, and I told her that there wouldn’t be time to hang out tonight, but possibly tomorrow.

I then received an angry text message on my phone from Tammy, stating that I wouldn’t hang out with her last night because I was ‘roasting marsh mellows’ with Asia. Asia is my good friend that Tammy despises, as they often competed for my friendship as children. I responded to her text and said that no, I was doing no such thing. Also included in my text was the fact that I was possibly doing something the following day (today) and that we may not be able to hang out because of this. You see, my mum wanted to go to the art gallery.

Fast forward to this morning, I notice that Tammy responded to my text message. She was absolutely livid. Her response was really heated, saying things such as ‘how dare you blow off our plans,’ ‘you don’t care how you treat me,’ ‘don’t bother texting me back.’

I had to stop and ponder. Was this foreal? There was no way she could be serious. First of all, we had never made any legitimate plans. I had made a specific effort to say that we could ‘possibly’ hang out today, as I had not yet known what the day would entail. And as it had turned out, my mum wanted to go to an art gallery. It wasn’t as if I had said ’screw you, I’m going to the mall with other friends.’

I then logged onto MSN messenger and noticed that she had changed her screen name to something along the lines of ‘I can’t believe that my family would back stab me.’ She had always told me that she had thought of me as family.

Back stab her? I couldn’t believe this, I had done nothing! And this was the frustrating part, knowing that I had done nothing wrong.

I’m still seething. I cannot believe that she is making such a big deal out of nothing at all. I wish I had that kind of energy.