Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Right after Thanksgiving, I (15 M) was added to an Instagram group chat by my long-distance best friend, Olivia (16 F), containing her hometown friends. I hit it off with all of them unbelievably quickly, and soon, this group chat began to take up almost all of my free time - I would send memes, make FaceTime calls, and spend hours discussing similar interests with these people. Being added to the group chat came at a good time: I go to a small high school, and I didn't honestly feel like I fit in with all of my friends. This group chat made me feel like I had met people that were exactly like me, so I devoted just about all of my time towards them and made plans with my parents to visit them in their hometown. Over time, more and more people were added - about 25 at the peak. Two of the people I felt the closest with was a boy named James (16 M) and a girl named Allie (16 F).

One day, in mid-December, Olivia told me a little bit about James' past. I found out that he had feelings for Allie - feelings that had been going on for years and years. They had spent just about every waking moment of the summer together, but they never established their relationship to be anything more than a close friendship. As the summer ended, Allie fell head-over-heels for someone else and began a relationship with them, leaving James feeling heartbroken and confused. Allie broke up with her new boyfriend shortly after for unrelated reasons, but the damage had already been done to their friendship.

Fast-forward to last month: Allie and I start talking privately, and we become very close very quickly. After three or so weeks of talking into the early hours of the morning, Allie's best friend Sarah realizes that we both have feelings for one another, and confronts us about it. We decide to start dating - we determine that we like each other so much that it's worth giving a try despite the fact that we live so far away. I ask both Allie and Sarah if I should talk to James about the relationship, but they tell me that it would be best to wait until he's gotten over Allie. Because they know him better than I do, I take their advice and don't talk to him about it.

Eventually, James finds out and promptly leaves the group chat. I ask Allie and Sarah again if I should talk to him, but they reaffirm that it would be too upsetting for him to discuss things with me, so I don't. Soon thereafter, Olivia finds out about James and is furious that I hadn't said anything to him. I realized my mistake and profusely apologized but it was too late, and he ignored me. Since then, I've left the group chat, Olivia hasn't talked to me in a month, James has blocked me on Instagram, and a large number of his close friends have done the same. Olivia said that the friend group was crumbling because of me and I honestly don't know if it's my fault or not. AITA?

**TLDR:** I started long-distance dating a girl, a friend that liked her found out, so now everyone is angry at me.