I don’t even know how to start this, but I guess I need another opinion… so here it goes.
A few weeks ago, I was at my friend’s frat. He’s a really great guy, and I am friends with both him and his girlfriend, so I have always felt comfortable around him. Anyways, he invited me to a small party they were having, and I decided to go because I thought it would be fun, even though his girlfriend was out of town, and I am better friends with her. I planned to spend the night there because I wasn’t about to drive home drunk, and I had been there a ton of times before and everyone had always been really nice to me. Some of my friends had also slept there before, so I didn’t feel uncomfortable about it or anything.
Anyways, by the time I decided to go to bed, I was pretty out of it and felt sort of like I was going to puke, so my friend showed me the room that he said I could sleep in, and then left to grab me a charger since I forgot mine. While he was gone, another guy that I had just met at the party, who’s also in the frat, came in. He sat down next to me and just kept getting closer. At the time I was so drunk that what he was doing didn’t seem weird at all. He even asked if I felt uncomfortable, and I told him no, that I was fine. Then we started to make out, and it wasn’t bad or anything, but things started to escalate really fast. By this point I was so drunk I couldn’t really process what was going on; I pretty much just wanted him to hurry up and leave, so I could go to bed. For some reason, I felt like I couldn’t tell him to stop what he was doing, and I think I even asked if he had a condom, but mostly just because I didn’t want to get an STD or pregnant. He said we wouldn’t have sex, and I’m pretty sure we didn’t, but he fingered me and made me touch him even though I wasn’t really in a state to be capable of reciprocating anything. I know I’m in college, but I have never done any of those things before, so it hurt me. I think at some point he stopped to lock the door. He even started asking me questions about my major and stuff, maybe like he was trying to see if I was sober enough or something, even though he saw me almost puke before I went to bed and even held my hair back in case I did.
After he locked the door and finished quizzing me or whatever, he started doing stuff again. At this point, I just remember snippets of what happened, and what he did. The next thing I remember is sitting up suddenly and trying to ask for a trash can, and I must not have made much sense because he was all confused and didn’t get it. Then I puked all over the floor, and I guess at that point he left to go grab some stuff to clean it up and unlocked the door because the next thing I remember my friend was back and he was talking to me. The other guy was still there, and my friend must have left for a little to grab more cleaning stuff, and the guy started making out with me again, and I only remember thinking that it must be gross since I just puked. My friend returned at some point and asked the guy to go and grab something, and that is when I finally was able to push through the fog a little and try to tell my friend that I didn’t like the other guy. I guess I told him that a few times, but I don’t remember that part, he told me that the next morning. After that, my friend kicked him out and sat with me till I fell asleep, then slept in the other bed in the room, so no one else would bug me, and in case I puked again.
The next morning, I woke up and I was really confused and could only remember snippets of what had happened the night before, and I didn’t have any pants or underwear on. I didn’t even know where they were, so I had to search around the room for them without waking my friend up because I didn’t want him to see me pretty much naked, in case he didn’t notice last night because it was really dark. I texted my friend’s girlfriend because she knew I was there, and knows the people in the frat, and I didn’t really know what happened or what to even think about it. I just wanted to hear what someone else would think, but she texted her boyfriend what I told her and then when he woke up he started asking me all of these questions about it, and I felt super uncomfortable. He said they would take “disciplinary action” or something, but I never heard anything about it after that. I also felt really bad about it because I guess she was yelling at him for leaving me alone, but I didn’t even want her to say anything to him about what happened in the first place because I didn’t even know what to think about it. Also, my friend was really nice to me that night, and he didn’t do anything wrong or deserve to be screamed at. I just knew that if I had been sober, I would never have gone so far with that guy. I also feel like my friend doesn’t like me as much now after that whole thing, but it might just be me overthinking it. I mean, I made a lot of extra work for him and stuff, and I feel so bad about it.
When I finally got home, I remember going to the bathroom and seeing hickeys on my neck and not even remembering getting them. My bra was ripped in multiple places and I had cuts under my boobs from the wires where he yanked on it too hard. There was blood in my underwear and I hurt for days after. I remember him being a little too rough with me, but I don’t remember getting the cuts or anything like that. I guess I was most concerned that I couldn’t even remember most of what happened to me. I am also really embarrassed about it because I puked all over, had a conversation with my friend naked, was naked in front of a guy I didn’t really know, and we were being really loud in the room, so people probably thought we were hooking up. Also, a lot of my friends hang out there, and I know I will have to go back at some point, so if my friend made the whole thing a big deal, then all of the guys there probably hate me. And what if what happened wasn’t a big deal because I never told him to stop, should he really get in trouble for that? I just don’t know. I mean I obviously woke up and was not happy about what happened at all, but I didn’t do anything to stop it.
I guess I’m not really sure if this whole thing was just a misunderstanding like he tried to talk to me and stuff, or I guess what any of that was. I just don’t know what to think about the whole thing, and I guess other opinions would be nice. Thanks!
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Alright, here’s burgerboy’s hot take.
So you went to a place filled with drunks and spent the night there. In a perfect world nothing would happen, but that not being the case you got taken advantage of by some random. Yes he did take advantage of you – no guy with two functioning brain cells can mistake a drunk girl for a sober one. Was it wrong? Absolutely, but you put yourself in one of the most likely places for some shit like that to happen. I’d advise against sleeping at parties in the future.
This is what’s wrong with today’s society… what you just said is stupid. The fact that you are blaming her for what happened is the problem. Yes she went to the party but she is a human being and deserves to be treated like one. In Florida where I live if you drink you cannot give consent and it is considered rape.
Belle if I were you I would report this and tell them what happened because you didn’t deserve what happened to you. This is not your fault so please don’t think like this.
Thank you for this! I probably won’t report it because I don’t think there’s anything else that can be done at this point, but thank you.
Only you can decide if your consent was or wasn’t given. Alcohol makes things murky but is no excuse for transgressing consent.