(after writing this, I realize that this story may not be as interesting as I made it out to be, so I apologize if I wasted your time).
Ok. Gather round, children. It's time to hear a story about foolish teenagers doing and saying stupid shit:
Some background to set the scene: When I was about 15 I had a BFF named Jenny. we were the same age. At some point, we started hanging out with a group of people - one of them was a guy named George, who was about 3 years older than us (so about to graduate from high school 18 going on 19). George and I had a weird relationship, and I was too young and naive to realize he was just trying to get me into bed. I didn't get it, so I thought he really "loved me". After a while, he got bored, so we broke up and then I realized that I was "in love" with him. I kinda lost contact with that group for a while, but Jenny continued to hang out with them and at some point introduced George to a childhood friend of hers - Hanna (age 13). Jenny knew I wanted George back. Jenny knew Hanna was 13. But Jenny "wanted the best for [her] Best Friend George" (actual quote from her). In other words, I wasn't "the best" but a 13 year old girl was...
At this point: Hanna is 13, Jenny and I are about 16-17, and George is 19-20 (it was a long time ago, so I'm fuzzy about the ages, but I definitely remember that Hanna was 13 when all this bullshit was happening).
When I heard that George started dating this girl, I felt I had to win him back.. you know.. because LOVE! :) So I reconnected with the group and started flirting with George. Hanna told George that she's 16. George was smart enough to tell me he's with some one else now, but wasn't smart enough to see that he's dating a tween.
It seems that I have lost the battle, but I wasn't going to lose the war. From my perspective, George was mine, Jenny is a total bitch, and Hanna is a manipulating lying baby. My ego couldn't handle the notion that I must compete with a 13 year-old for attention. Jenny became my "frenemy", and every time I raised the issue, she would just say that she wants "..George to be happy".
At some point Hanna had a birthday party (turning 14). George, Jenny, other friends, and her parents were at the party. 99% of the people were adults, and somehow everyone was cool with the fact that a 19 year old guy is dating a 14 year old girl. I wasn't there.. so I don't know what happened. Like, Hanna's mom met George and he would hang out in their house all the time... It's beyond me how her mom didn't mind her 13 year old girl dating a high-school graduate. I assume that Hanna was lying to her mom about George's age.. but still.. Any adult would see that there's a huge age difference..
Some time after the party, I was chatting with George, and I "casually" started talking to him about Hanna's age, whether he ever saw her ID (in my country, you get a gov't ID at 16 and you have to show it when you go to pubs and other places - so technically he should have had an opportunity to see her use it), her high school classes, and other things that a 16-17 year old should have experienced by now. During that chat, he dismissed the idea that she's lying to him.. So I told him to ask her and prove me wrong.
People didn't like it that I was stirring shit up, and it was funny how they were trying to tell me off and then realizing that they don't have a dick to stand on (to borrow an expression from Key & Peele). It's beyond me why everyone thought that Hanna is perfect for George considering they just met her. I became hugely unpopular and it was obvious I was trying to break them apart. I must admit that this was my initial plan, but I also really cared about him, and it seemed wrong that a) his girlfriend is lying to him, and b) he can get into serious serious trouble for all of this and he doesn't even know. Besides, I really love the feeling of saying "I told you so!" so I was willing to take the heat now and relish in my righteousness later.
Anyway, people didn't believe me when I was saying she was 14 (by now).. But Jenny knew all along because their families are long-time friends... I think that at some point George was smart enough to actually talk about this with Hanna, and then Hanna admitted that she wasn't 17 as she told him... she was actually 16 (!), and she lied to him because she was afraid that he wouldn't want to date her because she's too young (!!). He was seemingly happy with this answer, and life went on.. To sum it up: initially, Hanna said she was 16 when they met, but then told him she lied by 1 year (so as if she was 15 when they met). All along she was 13-14!! I hated that girl with a burning passion, but I gotta say she's a pretty good manipulator for a 14 year old :)
I wasn't a part of their group, but after a while I heard that Hanna kissed George's best friend - aka cheated on him at a party because she was drunk (so yeah, we're talking about serving alcohol to a 14 year old).
At that point it wasn't even about getting George back or getting even with Hanna and Jenny.. I felt that justice had to be made! So I told him. He wasn't happy. A lot of much older guys (we're talking about 20-21 year old guys) were pretty pissed at me for ruining the dynamic that was going on in their group. They naturally assumed that I was spreading lies about Hanna. I think that it was their coping mechanism trying to deal with the fact that a 13 year old managed to fool them, and now they can be in huge trouble if police finds out.
Jenny gave me a lot of shit for this, but it didn't matter because she actively lied to her "best friend". The end result was that I won and it was the right thing to do (best outcome in my opinion). Thankfully, no one got in trouble with the police, but it taught me a valuable lesson about lying to your significant other to gain their attention. Regardless of how nice and awesome the person is, it's just wrong to lie to a person who cares about you just so you can be considered legitimate in his/her eyes.
THE END.