What made you realise that a friend wasn't really a friend?

I was visiting from out of town for the weekend for my birthday. Her and I were supposed to hang out. Then her boyfriend left me a voicemail, in which I could hear her in the background, telling me that instead they were going to a party and I could meet them there; she later denied that she wanted to go to the party and only wanted to see me, which given I could hear her in the background of the vm was a lie. This was after every time we hung out in the summer (before I moved out of town) she kept trying to get me to take her to go see her boyfriend (we all hung out once, which was cool, but every damn time she and I hung out she tried to get him involved too, and she knew I was moving away). When I took time to think back on our friendship, I realized I had ignored a lot of friendship red flags from her--shitty things she'd said to me, taking advantage of me driving around and paying for things, trying to one-up me in my (our? Idk if she actually cared about this stuff, tbh) interests in school. It was really obvious in hindsight that she didn't have any respect for me. That friendship should have ended years earlier than it did, if it should have even started.

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