I am in college but I work at a restaurant in my hometown over the summer with three other people I went to high school with. We'll call them Alex, Hayden and Taylor (not real names).

A little background. In high school, Taylor was my best friend. We did absolutely everything together. But towards the beginning of last summer she told me point blank that she wanted to "drop me as a friend." She told me that this is because she feels like she is becoming a famous "influencer" on instagram and that I simply don't fit into the lifestyle she is looking for. It's true that we'd been drifting apart for a while, but I don't really understand why she felt the need to formally cut me out of her life like that. It was really hurtful.

At work Taylor would act absolutely insufferable about her "instagram career." She was getting actual offers from local businesses to promote their products on her account. She would constantly brag about these offers at work to me, Alex, and Hayden. We were all pretty fed up with it.

This part is where I feel like I took a wrong turn. I was furious and wanted to take Taylor down a peg. I know she spends a lot of time on dating websites so I set up a bunch of accounts on popular dating websites to try and catfish her. After a while of talking to her online, I sent her a message from this catfishing account asking her to meet up for a date at the restaurant. When her "date" didn't show, I took a picture of her and posted it on social media, showing what had happened.

The next day at work I come in and the manager is furious with me. (This part requires a little background - months ago, when Taylor and I were still friends, I accidentally broke an expensive piece of equipment in the restaurant. I told Taylor about it but never fessed up that it was me to our manager) Taylor told the manager about how I had broken the oven, and I was FIRED that day. To make matters even worse, the manager threatened to SUE ME for tens of thousands of dollars for breaking the equipment.

When I got home that day I noticed that Taylor had posted a picture on social media of herself smirking and tagged me in it. The caption said "TFW I win." I knew that her followers probably wouldn't get it but it was a message at me gloating about me getting fired.

That's when I left the mean comment on that post. I won't put the whole thing here, but I said some really mean things like "You deserve to die" and "When you're dead, no one will even miss you." I also said "Watch your back, I'm coming for you."

I went back to college pretty soon after that and basically cut contact almost entirely with Taylor, Alex, and Hayden. Alex told me that Taylor said she was actually pretty disturbed by my comment, calling it a "threat" and saying it made her feel afraid. I thought I was justified at the time because she's the one who dropped our friendship, but when I review my actions I really feel like the asshole here