With Friends Like These, Vol. II

I used to be friends with a guy who, this guy was literally a chick magnet. It's unusual to even used that term, feels a little outdated and out of place in 2022. But this guy literally would have women hanging all over him everywhere we went. If we were hanging out with the group at a bar or a club before the end of the night he probably would get at least three or four digits, girls just like lining up to talk to him almost. It got to the point where even family members and exes of mine would ask about him. It was really just like beyond awkward. 

What's funny though is that despite that kind of attraction that he drew, he still felt a need to brag about conquests he made. Although sometimes I question if those conquests were legitimate. There was a mutual friend that he claimed she and her boyfriend needed to have a conversation about their own relationship because he was causing some sort of stress on the boyfriend. Like the boyfriend was insecure, uncomfortable that we were all hanging out as a group without him. There was a claim he made that he went to Disneyland on a date with a girl and while they were on Pirates of the Caribbean she took matters into her own hands (along with something else) and took care of him while they were going through the ride.  There was another time when he claimed to have bedded a mutual acquaintance. A girl that many of the guys in our group of friends were trying to hook up with. And he says she invited him over his place and took your business the first night they hung out together just the two of them.  Come to think of it, there were at least half a dozen girls from our group of mutual friends that he claims to have bedded. So again all in all very unusual that he would go out of his way to brag about things like that when I later came to find out a few of those were not true.

But this guy for the most part was a pretty good friend still as long as you ignore those other sides of him.  One-on-one we got along famously, we were hanging out all the time and he at one point even told me that he loved me like a brother. That he thanked God everyday for our friendship. 

Couple of years later and all of that went out the window when I was in the middle of a breakup with an ex and he decided to not only take her side but introduce her to another buddy of his. 🤔 I couldn't help but think that *MY* brother would never side with an ex of mine, much less, try and hook her up with a friend of his.