VERDICT

GUILTY

SENTENCE

Sentenced to actually telling him you're annoyed instead of practicing your fake handshake in the mirror.

PROSECUTION

You admit outright that she 'never seemed that interested' in you and that 'you can't claim dibs on people,' which means there was no actual betrayal here, just a guy pursuing someone who was available. The 'snake move' framing is you dressing up your own wounded ego as a moral violation so you don't have to sit with rejection or indifference from her. You also admit you're 'playing it cool' while privately stewing and now plan to freeze him out, which is the passive-aggressive move, not his friendliness toward you. The person who introduced a friend to a group and then gets quietly iced out for something that was never against any real rule is the one who'd tell a very different story about who's actually being fake here.

DEFENSE

You brought this guy into your circle in good faith, and he used that access to go after someone he knew you had feelings for, that's not a vague grudge, it's a direct quote of his own conduct working against you. Your position was always reasonable: you never claimed ownership over her, you acknowledged she wasn't showing clear interest in you, and you still only object to the friend violating a basic loyalty norm, not to the dating outcome itself. Staying cool instead of making a scene was the mature move, not fakeness, and your current distance from him isn't pettiness, it's a proportionate response to someone who smiles in your face while having already shown you what he's willing to do behind your back.} Actually let me restate cleanly without the stray brace.