Holidays can feel lonely when you don’t have family around, but good friends often step in to fill that space.
For Reddit user Hopeful-Jellyfish-13, spending Thanksgiving with her tight-knit group of friends had become a cherished tradition. She looked forward to it every year — until this one.
When she arrived at her cousin’s house instead of joining her friends, she discovered the heartbreaking truth: her closest companions had intentionally lied to her about the dress code as a way to “get back at her” for supposedly outshining them — an issue she never even knew existed.





























Many readers who followed her story agreed that she had every right to walk away.


