Friendship Fiasco: Refusing to Share Tipex Leads to Fallout - AITA?

Two 14-year-olds, one classroom, and a bottle of tipex turned into a full-on friendship disaster. And somehow, it all started with something as tiny as correcting pen mistakes, then spiraled into accusations, ignoring, and the classic “a best friend would…” speech.

OP says her friend asks for tipex every single day, has already used multiple bottles of OP’s, and even got OP into trouble once for not handing it over. Today, OP finally snapped and said no, just one time, because she claims her friend never returns the favor when OP needs things or tipex. Then her friend hit her with the “best friend” line, OP told her not to blackmail her, and suddenly OP is the villain for refusing a liquid to remove pen marks.

Here’s where the friendship logic gets messy fast.

Original Post

I am a 14F and my friend is a 14F. This all happened during a lesson.

Every. Single.

Day. Every.

Single. Lesson.

My friend ALWAYS asks for tipex and she has finished at least two tipex bottles of mine and even got me into trouble about it once. So today, I decided that it was enough because whenever I needed something from her, she would NEVER give it to me and also that whenever I needed tipex, there would never be enough for me to use and sometimes she wouldn't even give mine to me.

It really got on my nerves and so I said no to her \*once\* and her always go-to response is 'a best friend wouldn't do this' and so I said 'don't blackmail me' and then apparently me being stingy has been going through the whole relationship, even though it wasn't, she is just manipulative as she would use the best friend statement every time something didn't go her way. Anyways, she ignored me for the rest of the day and now I am not her friend because of a bottle of tipex.

So AITA for not giving my friend my tipex? EDIT: tipex is a liquid used to remove pen from paper

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Every single lesson, OP’s friend was asking for tipex like it was unlimited, and OP was already keeping score of who actually shared.

The situation gets personal when OP says her friend used her tipex, finished multiple bottles, and even blamed her after getting OP into trouble.

When OP finally says no once, the “a best friend wouldn’t do this” line drops immediately, like a scripted comeback.

After OP tells her friend not to blackmail her, the friend ignores her for the rest of the day, and suddenly it’s “over” because of tipex.

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One no about tipex was apparently enough to decide who the “real” best friend is.

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