Every year my school holds an art contest. There's this girl that enters every single year (lets call her V). V is sort of an artsy student  but struggles with having confidence in her art. When the art contest comes around, V enters. The art V submits is absolutely amazing, \*too amazing\*. It was clearly drawn by someone else. It didn't even look like it was her art style. She ended up winning 1st place and my art that I had spent DAYS on, came in 3rd place. She bragged a whole damn lot about the art that wasn't hers. Words can explain how frustrated I was.

Fast forward 1 year and the art contest comes around again. I wasn't going to let V win again. So I made a plan. First I got one of the people in my friend group to talk to V and get her to admit that it wasn't her art (just to make sure). Then when she submitted it, I would sneak V's submission out of the pile and destroy it. V ended up confessing that it was her older sister's art.

The due date comes and as a crowd of people are submitting their art, I take V's submission and put mine in the pile. I quickly slipped V's submission into my bag and destroy it when I get home. I ended up winning. Later V asks the teacher leading the art contest why her submission wasn't there. Long story short the word comes around that V couldn't enter the art contest because her submission was gone. Immediately V starts blaming the friend that I asked to get V to confess. Now my innocent friend is getting blamed for what I did out of spite.

I feel terrible, I'm not sure whether I'm the asshole or not. Reddit, I need your judgement.   