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/r/AITA - posted by /u/ihatedancing

AITA for not dancing at a party I didn't even want to go to in the first place?

My friends are telling me I am an asshole for this but I hate pretending to be someone I’m not.

I agreed to go to this party with my friend who’s just moved to a new town. I’m staying with him and his sisters for a while after I had a really bad summer (long story that involves my teenage sister) and needed to get away. Neither of us know ANYONE around here but of course my friend gets an invite to a big party right away. He’s just that kind of person.

My friend is pretty extraverted and he was having a good time but I’m more of an introvert so it really wasn’t my scene. Also I was really worried about my sister still. The ONLY people I knew at the party were my friend who was dancing and laughing with a girl he’d literally just met and my friend’s sisters who were also dancing. So I was just standing on the edge of the room minding my own business and trying not to inflict my bad mood on anyone.

So my friend came over and told me I was being stupid and to find someone to dance with because he hated seeing me standing around by myself.

I told him that I hate dancing ESPECIALLY with strangers. His sisters were doing their own thing and I think I said something about it basically being a punishment to dance with anyone else.

He just kept telling me how many pretty girls there were at this party and how everyone was really friendly. I told him I didn’t think anyone there was pretty enough for me to get over my social anxiety and he made puppy dog eyes at me about how there were “some girls” at the party who were “amazingly gorgeous” or something. I knew he was talking about the girl he’d been chatting with basically all night so I told him that he was dancing with the only pretty girl in the room or something. I didn’t want him to think I was calling her ugly or whatever.

But then he wanted to introduce me to that girl’s sister and I was really fed up by this point because my friend just wasn’t getting the message that I DID NOT WANT TO DANCE. AT ALL. NO MATTER HOW PRETTY THE GIRLS WERE. I HATE DANCING. I HATE STRANGERS. I HATE DANCING WITH STRANGERS.

So I don’t remember exactly what I said but it was something like she wasn’t pretty enough to tempt me (he had pointed out who she was)? I told him he was wasting his time and to go back to his new friend.

It might have been a little bit loud and apparently she might have overheard me saying she wasn’t pretty enough to dance with.

I REALLY DIDN’T WANT TO DANCE. Should I have danced with her anyway to make my friend happy? Am I the Asshole?