Hi all.
I work in finance, and last year transferred to a new firm in my city. I'm enjoying it and have met some great people. I also started dating Rebecca, who is a primary school teacher and lives 20 minutes away from my apartment.
When I started working here I was also introduced to Laura. She is quite a bit higher up than me and is very, very good at her job, to the extent that most people think she'll be at the very top of the company in a few years time. Since this was before I met Rebecca, I thought she was absolutely gorgeous but didn't pursue anything due to professional boundaries. However, we did become quite close and texted a lot outside of work, though I eased off a little after I met Rebecca.
We had a work party in the summer, and people were welcome to bring their spouses/SOs. I brought Rebecca as my date. When I introduced Laura and Rebecca, Laura was really... off with her. She belittled her profession (asking if little kids wiped their noses on Rebecca and things like that) and generally acted like she wasn't worth speaking to. I asked Rebecca if she wanted me to have a word but she said no. Later that night Laura came up to me wanting to dance, and Rebecca encouraged me to go. Laura was obviously drunk, and out of the blue she tried to kiss me. I pulled away straight away and ran straight back to Rebecca, who was very understanding and didn't blame me. We left soon after.
From then on I tried to maintain a strictly professional relationship with Laura. However, any time we spoke she'd say something snarky to imply that I was out of Rebecca's league (which isn't true at all) so I tried to interact with her as little as possible.
However, one day I found Laura crying in her office I asked her what was wrong and she made me promise not to tell a single person, which I did. She told me she had just received a cancer diagnosis and that it was advanced. I was horrified. Since then I got closer to Laura again, just to be there for her. Rebecca was aware of this and agreed that it was the right thing to do. I went to her house after work a few times just to spend time with her. I met her parents who were nice. In December when she was feeling very sick, she confided in me that she wished I wasn't with Rebecca, because she wished I could be with her before she died. I was heartbroken. I love Rebecca and would not do anything to jeopardise that, and don't feel that way about Laura, but a part of me still felt guilty that I couldn't give her the love she wanted when she needed it the most.
However, a short while later, in an attempt to surprise Laura and put a smile on her face, I stumbled onto the fact that the whole cancer thing was a lie. Both myself and Rebecca were furious. I reported her to HR who took the complaint very seriously, and at the start of the New Year Laura was relieved of her position.
We thought that was the last we'd seen of her, but myself and Rebecca were having a night in when I got a phone call from her out of the blue, sobbing that her parents had kicked her out after they found out why she had been fired, and her friends were disgusted with her and she had nowhere to go. She said she was freezing. I told her that she had money so she could go and pay for a room for the night, and that she was nothing to do with me anymore.
I genuinely feel terrible for Rebecca. She tried to do the right thing and gave me the blessing to be a friend to Laura despite the bad blood, only to find out what Laura was really doing. She's said she doesn't blame me but I can't help but sense some resentment from her.
How do I go about making to her?
TL:DR: A colleague of mine took and instant disliking to my girlfriend, and set about trying to break us up in the most disgusting way possible, and I'm not sure how to go about making it up to my girlfriend.
Submitted February 01, 2019 at 12:50PM by mackocheeso http://bit.ly/2S0JMup
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