In honor of the Ides of March, what was a time you were stabbed in the back by your closest friends?

I went to an out-of-state university in a fairly large city, so going in I didn't know a single person. Freshman year I was put in an all girls dorm, where I became friends with 5 other girls. Now, these girls were not the nicest. I was fairly shy/awkward and didn't have an easy time making friends so I overlooked their meanness and became good friends with them.

Although they were pretty catty and loved their drama and shit talking, we all lived together sophomore year. Things were okay, I still didn't have many friends outside of them. We had all discussed living off-campus our junior year. Winter was approaching and it was around the time that we needed to start finding housing for the next year. I kept inquiring about where they wanted to live and when we would start looking, only to get half-assed answers. Around Thanksgiving I found out through an acquaintance that those girls - my ROOMMATES and the only friends I had (or at least I THOUGHT they were my friends) - had already been looking for housing together without me. They had no intentions of informing me that I wouldn't be living with them the following year and went behind my back for months lying to me about it. I was pretty screwed because I didn't have anyone else to room with and was late in the game finding an apartment. And living with them for the rest of sophomore year (another five months after this incident happened) was absolutely terrible. I dreaded coming home to those backstabbing bitches every night.

However, things worked out in the end. That experience made me into a stronger person. I was forced to come out of my shell and became quite outgoing as a result. I ended up getting extremely involved in clubs, activities, and a sorority. The new friends I ended up making are some of the best I've ever had and I am still in close contact with them. As for those bitches, I'm thankful for the hell they put me through because it made me into a better person.

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