TIFU Thought She Was 17. She Wasn’t.

So it should really be yesterday. And throwaway because if my brother finds out, my life won’t be worth living. I initially posted on AITA but it got taken down because relationships aren’t allowed.

So, I’m a 18M. I’ve been talking to a girl I met through online gaming. She said she was 17F. We’d been talking for about a month. We’d swapped numbers, been texting and Whatsapping and even sent photos. We seemed to have a lot in common and she honestly seemed really cool. We only live about an hour away from each other.

Things were going well, so we made plans to meet up at a midway point yesterday. I suggested a cafe I know; it’s quiet, but public. I know meeting someone for the first time can be daunting, particularly for a young woman.

I got there first and grabbed a table. I settled down to wait. But when she turned up, it was immediately obvious that she was a hellova lot younger than she had said. She had a lot of make up on and she still wouldn’t have got into a 15 movie without ID.

My first reaction was disbelief - she was not the person I had been expecting. Then she quotes back our last flirtatious conversation and I saw red.

I asked her bluntly and probably rudely how old she really was. She continued to claim 17. I called bullshit. I bluntly told her to prove it or stop bullshitting me. I got up to leave and she burst into tears saying she didn’t have a ride home. I told her to call her parents. We had five to ten minutes of me refusing to drive he anywhere. I was not having a minor I had been flirting with alone in my car for any time. She eventually calls her father.

I hung about while she waited for him. I might be furious but I’m still not going to leave a child alone in a random city. It perhaps goes without saying that dad was seriously unimpressed. I think if we hadn’t still been in public, he’d probably have punched me. As it was I got a right bollocking. Because yeah, I’d been flirting with his THIRTEEN year old daughter for weeks. I laid out the timeline, the messages and the photos - turns out those were her actually seventeen year old sister. I think he was more furious at her than me by the end.

TL;DR I nearly got done for child grooming because I organised a date with a thirteen year old after flirting with her for weeks. My friends think it’s fucking hilarious that I got catfished by an actual child and I can’t tell my family because my brother would never let me forget it.