Teen Says Her Best Friend Is Upset She's Going to Prom in a Different Town with Her Boyfriend — Instead of Their Own with Him

A teen girl is feeling conflicted after having to choose between her boyfriend and her best friend for prom.

The 18-year-old wrote in a post on Reddit's "Am I the A------?" forum that she and her male best friend made a pact at the beginning of their school year that they would go to prom together as friends if they needed dates when the event came around.

At the time, she explained, "My best friend had gotten in and out of a few relationships, so I had assumed that out of either of us, he wouldn't end up being single by prom because of his confidence and ability to talk to the people he finds attractive."

"I hadn't dated anyone in a few years up until I got into a relationship with my current boyfriend, so I thought that if anyone were to end up with a date for prom, it would have been my best friend," she continued.

More recently, the woman said her boyfriend, who lives about two hours away, asked her if she would attend prom at his school with him. However, the two proms — the woman's and her best friend's, as well as her boyfriend's, happen to be on the same evening.

When the woman told her friend that she would be going to prom with her boyfriend at his school, she said he "was happy for me" and "congratulated me when he found out."

"Two days after he heard the news, though, he texted me and asked me why my boyfriend couldn't just come to our town for prom," she continued.

After explaining to her friend "that it wasn't a matter of whether or not he could come, but a matter of us mutually agreeing that I would go to him," the woman said her friend then asked what he was supposed to do, since she was going to be his date.

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"I told him that I would help him find someone to go with," the woman explained, adding that her friend "told me that that wasn't the point and that he thought that we were supposed to go to prom together."

She added that she feels bad pulling the "security blanket" of their friendship prom pact out from under him.

In the comments section, Reddit users were sympathetic to both the woman and her best friend, though many said that the woman is not wrong for going opting to go to her boyfriend's prom.

"Your bestie’s got a right to feel a little salty since you two had that prom pact, but you didn’t ditch him out of spite, just caught feels and made plans with your boyfriend," one person commented, also highlighting that the woman did her best to make good on the offer to help him "score a date."

Another person wrote that the woman shouldn't feel bad about breaking the pact on a technicality.

"You didn't break your promise. You just don't need someone to go to prom with," they told the teen.