I’ve let my best friend believe a lie for six years because the truth would have cost me her
She thinks her ex cheated first. That’s the version she’s told at every dinner party since, the version that’s shaped how she talks about that entire relationship, the version she’s used to justify things she did afterward that she might not have forgiven herself for otherwise. It’s not what actually happened. I know exactly what actually happened, because I was there for the part she doesn’t know I was there for, and I’ve carried that difference in silence for six…

