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User: u/TomatorNator (Tommahud)
AITA for unintentionally helping a murder?
Hear me out, alright? So I (20M) have this friend (19M), and we've been the closest guy-friends of all time in the history of ever. I'll call him Nacho for privacy's sake. If you know, you know, y'know?
In the most respectful way possible, Nacho hasn't been all there lately. He'll tell me he's doing just fine, and then he'll go dissect a live beetle. I thought it was just a phase, and I played along with it, y'know? When we were younger, he was real nice and polite. Yeah, he was a little rowdy, but at that age, who isn't? So I'd humor him and let him get all his grief out, BUT I'd always make sure to reel him in. I thought I was helping.
I'm going to make a long story short here - Nacho may or may not have killed this really nice old lady. It wasn't gruesome or anything like that - she was sick with consumption, so it was bound to happen soon-ish. Probably. He told me to distract the lady's husband, but didn't give me a reason why. I listened, though. I figured Nacho was just up to his usual shenanigans - stealing, scouting, talking to himself, the usual, yeah?
But turns out, she needed her medicine. Desperately. And her husband was the only herbalist around.
I feel guilty just thinking about it, y'know? It's been a week since it happened, and Nacho's just acting like nothing's up. But I can't bring myself to out him to anyone - especially not to the old lady's husband. I've tried, but I just can't. Nacho's been my best, and only, friend for a long time, and I really don't know what I'd do without him. We're the only ones who know that her death wasn't natural.
So, AITA? I'd like to think I'm not, but I don't know anymore.
u/CrowsInYourWalls: NTA, it wasn’t intentional and you didn’t know your friend’s intentions. You just went along because you trusted him. That’s not your fault, if anything your friend’s the asshole. And mentally unwell-
u/butterflieshaveprettyprivilege: NTA you didn’t know :((
(Two types of people- also I’m not telling you the characters actual names haha suffer)