See, after James got fired, he couldn’t keep up with all the promises he’d made to her. No more fancy dinners at Cheesecake Factory. No more shopping sprees at Lululemon. No more weekend trips to nearby cities. The final straw? He couldn’t make the payments on that fake Tiffany ring. Yes, I still can’t believe he bought a knockoff.
Aurora didn’t just get mad. She got methodical. Remember all those expense reports James was faking? She had photos. Lots of photos. Apparently, he used to brag to her about how clever he was, showing her all his tricks for gaming the system. She’d saved everything in her Google Photos, thinking it was impressive that her boyfriend was so smart with money.
Last week, she made a TikTok. Nothing dramatic, just a story time about dating a guy who turned out to be a fraud. Didn’t use names, but included glimpses of those receipts. The video went viral in our local circle. James’s old co-workers recognized the expense report format.
Meanwhile, I had my own little victory. Remember that joint Amazon account he kept trying to get back into? I found out he’d been using it to buy gifts for Aurora while we were still together, so I did something petty but satisfying. I returned everything that was still within the return window. The money went back to my card, since I was the original purchaser.
The best part? He didn’t even notice until Amazon sent him those returned-purchase emails. By then, all the stuff he’d bought Aurora was back in Amazon’s warehouse, and the refunds had already cleared.
But here’s where it gets really good. Yesterday, I was at Target picking up some storage bins, trying to organize my new place, when I ran into James’s sister, Katie. Instead of being awkward, she actually hugged me and spilled some tea. James had been borrowing money from their parents, claiming it was for investment opportunities. Turns out he was using it to maintain his fake lifestyle with Aurora.
His parents found out about this during a family dinner last weekend. How? Because Aurora’s TikTok had made its way to his mom’s Facebook feed. There was apparently a huge scene at Olive Garden, of all places. James’s dad was so angry he actually took back the spare key to their house.
James’s reaction to all this? Total meltdown. He started messaging everyone, trying to do damage control, made new Instagram accounts to harass Aurora, kept calling his old job trying to explain, even showed up at his parents’ house at midnight begging them to understand his side.
The karma train wasn’t done, though. Remember how he always insisted on managing our shared cloud storage because I was too disorganized? Well, I finally logged into it last week to download some old photos. I found a folder full of screenshots of his conversations with Aurora from when they first started dating, including some choice messages about their plans for after he left me.
I didn’t even have to do anything with them. I just forwarded everything to my divorce attorney. She actually laughed and said, “This is making my job very easy.”
But the absolute peak of all this? Aurora made a follow-up TikTok yesterday. This time, she showed the fake Tiffany ring, complete with screenshots of the sketchy website he bought it from. The video already has 50k views.