journal entry #3

This one time, I was throwing a New Year's Eve party, while my parents were out of town. One of my best friends was (and still is) in a relationship with a girl that I don't like. He wanted to bring her to the party, and I was reluctant at first, but eventually I told him that yes, he could bring her, IF she had a SAFE and LEGAL way home (we were all underage at the time, and there was going to be drinking involved). He was fine with that, so I just went on my way. Later on, my sister told me that my friend was trying to convince her to drive his girlfriend home at the end of the night. This would have been fine, except that my sister didn't have her license, she only had her permit. That would be ILLEGAL, which breaks the original agreement. I was pretty fuckin pissed, so I texted him, expressing the fact that I didn't appreciate the fact that he tried to go behind my back, and get my sister to drive his girlfriend home. Things were relatively civil at first, but then I told him that unless he found an alternative solution, he and his girlfriend weren't welcome at the party. He then made an accusation about my motives behind me NOT wanting her to come to the party. This accusation was incorrect, but it was a low-blow, so I threw a low-blow right back at him. We went back and forth like this for about 30 minutes (all via text, which is why I had the balls to say this stuff)... We said some TERRIBLE things to each other, some things that we won't ever forget. Eventually, we had exhausted all of the dirt we had on each other (we had a lot, since we've been great friends for 6 years), and me and him didn't talk for a couple weeks. Eventually, he texted me, saying he wanted to apologize for the situation (since he started it). I said okay, so we got together, grabbed some dinner, and made up. The conflict definitely got out of control, but that's because me and him are both very prideful, and neither of us wanted to back down, or apologize, until later. It could have been handled better, if one of us just backed down during the low-blow portion of the fight.