In 2020, I was invited into a Discord server with my (real) friends.

(I will be censoring names of my friends to respect their privacy, but not me or him)

This was before I knew that they even had a Discord together, so much of what they did was stuff I never knew they had, like chats and new people; including one of my friends' little sister and of course, Joseph.

He was quite literally the only adult in the server at 18 while we were all minors/teenagers. And this was actually something I didn't know beforehand... he apparently was dating one of my friends, the one person that was close to him and first introduced him into the server. I also did not know his age, so, I was also weirded out by this, I even wondered why everyone was allowing this to happen but... peer pressure I guess? We were all still empathetic and innocent and tried our best to have him in the group and feel welcomed.

But... needless to say, there was a ton of lewd and suggestive comments here and there between them in the server. Way too many to count but I'll show some examples of his creepy behavior.

Of course as the months went by, his birthday was close, and ONLY then was he worried:

It's the fact that he KNEW that this was wrong and was worried about getting caught. Like most pedo's.

But of course, he was still our "friend" and despite our remarks we tried not to stress him out:

Of course, I said "I vote" because I genuinely would have told someone about it because their relationship did make me uncomfortable...

But I crumbled at this, felt very bad about upsetting them (mostly my friend), and I legitimately did not talk till the next day; I felt ashamed.

I was stuck with this thought, I didn't like it much but I acted like everything was normal and continued talking to my friends.

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