I wanna figure this out once and for all. This is a really bizarre and unnecessary fight I had with my friend. This happened a few months ago over the summer. My (19m) family owns a cottage on a lake about 2 hours north from my home. It is a very special place to me and I always like to go up there to relax. 

One weekend, I decided to bring up my close friend (17m) at the time. The whole weekend went pretty smooth until the night before we left for home. I thought watching a movie on Netflix would be cool. I had a movie saved that I had been wanting to watch for a while and I asked my friend if he wanted to watch it. He says sure, so I load it up. About 5 minutes in, he starts watching YouTube videos without earbuds. He’s playing it louder than the movie, so I pause it and ask him if he actually wants to watch it. He says he is watching, so I continue playing it. Once again, he starts playing YouTube videos out loud. 

I said something like, “I actually want to watch this movie, so if you’re not into it I’m just gonna go to bed and watch it another time.”  He responds by asking me what the fuck I’m getting so mad over and how he was actually watching the movie. I get into bed and he says, “I’m just gonna go home then.” He proceeds to call his mother and tell her to come get him. 

Mind you, it’s about a 2 hours drive from where we live and it’s about 12 at night. If someone were to come get him, that would be 2 hours up to get him and 2 hours back to go home. I start freaking out and say, “You’re seriously gonna make your mom drive that much because I didn’t want to watch a movie?” He says yeah and insists that she will be there soon.

By that point I had had enough and decide to go to bed. The problem is I can’t fall asleep because I’m so worried that his mom is gonna be angry with me or my family and that my parents are going to be mad as well. I try to sleep for about 2 hours but I still can’t. At 2 AM I finally look up and see he’s still on his phone. I ask him if he really called his mom and he continues to insist he did and she will be there soon. 

I called him a selfish asshole or something like that and go downstairs for some water. When I come back up he just starts laughing at me. He says, “I never even called her.”

I immediately blow up and start yelling at him. I tell him how rude it was that he did that and how he will never be invited back up. His only response is “fine.”

The next morning we pack up and head home. When we finally arrive at my house, he calls his mom and we wait for his ride. He asks me if I’m still mad and I say yeah. He just starts laughing at me again. 

We didn’t really talk for a few months after that. The next time we hung out he did give me an apology I thought was sincere, but to me it was a little to late to really mean anything. I have no desire to spend time with him anymore. 

I’ve had my other friends tell me both that I over reacted or that I was right in this. I just feel like I go up north to relax and all my friend did was stress me out. It would have been one thing for the prank to have lasted 5 minutes but he let it go on for 2 hours. He wasn’t even sorry about it when he knew it upset me. AITA in this for reacting the way I did?