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Please help asap_I lied and don't know how to salvage the situation (to my mom) _

I'm going to start from the very start of the whole situation. If anyone sees this please help me. Looking back at what I wrote this is turning out to be an essay. If you have the patience I beg of you to help me out.

First of all I'm a fifteen year old girl who is interested in music. In a summer music programm I met two russian guys one is seventeen and one nineteen who the elder is a professional clarinetist.

Because I am interested in learning about different cultures and at my environment information about people living in Russia is very restricted I felt interest in meeting and learning from these two. The younger one isn't very good at English and not that social so I was talking more with nineteen year old one. I thought his point of view is a bit different than mine and even though we do not agree on everything it is very interesting talking with him. After a concert where he performed at he wanted to see a place that is far from where they spend their nights. It was already pretty late in the night but because I wanted to show him around, since I know the place pretty good, I proposed showing him (with the other guy who is his brother) around a bit. Even though it was late (and the next bus to bring them to where they could sleep was coming in the morning) I was interested in a conversation so while showing them around we also talked about various themes such as family, politics, life and death and a bit of philosophy and how society is shaped.

And somehow the whole night passed and we where talking about those themes. My grandma had told me to not be too late and we'll...I came home at dawn. She was very worried about me wich I completely understand. I don't know why I wanted to talk for so long at this hour as a girl (because let's be honest there may be dangers) but it happened. It is the first time in my life i've done this -staying up all night outside talking with someone I don't know that well- and I admit it was a very stupid idea. Even though nothing bad happened and I quite liked our conversations. And the showing around was my idea too.

Well she was very worried and told me to never do it again to which I agreed and apologized. I was planning to go swimming at the sea which was very near with the two guys. She told me no and that I would be going to sleep immediately. I went to the older guy and told him that I won't be able to swim and I'm apologized to him. I slept and woke up a few hours later. We exchanged Instagram accounts before he left. When I woke up I realised that my grandma bought me one of those cheap Nokia telephones that cost around fifteen euros but still work. She told my mom from the phone (my mom is working at another country) about buying the phone and frankly put my mom was not happy about it because for about a week I can't find her old phone that she gave me and she had told me to find it and put a simple card in it.

In the meantime I was also chatting with the nineteen year old let's call him E. He was asking if everything was okay and if my grandma scolded me. I told him no and that scolding is something my mom does and if she was the one who was in my grandma's situation...but you know I view it as a type of joke to say that. Many people my age joke about their parents being strict and that they'd be as good as dead and stuff when the parents find out they did stupid shit. So I wasn't criticising my mom in my opinion.

So he wanted to come down to the town again with the bus to explore the place more. I said that maybe if he loses the last bus I could arrange for him to stay at my place. I had asked my grandma the day before but she said we had not enough space. I was dumb and still thought there may be a way. He said Itwas very nice of me and I dismissed it as "basic human desency" to offer someone to stay for the night. You know hospitality? So he wrote that I was nice person and I said that he is also pretty nice and an honest and humane person.

At that he wrote (all this in the Instagram chat) "I'm not humane, I talked about killing people" so for backstory when we where talking about politics we arrived at the theme of Trump and Epstein files. And he said that if he wouldn't face consequences and it wasn't illegal if he had the opportunity he would kill people such as Donald Trump. Wich Well isnt a very humane thing to say I admit it but it is not an uncommon thought for a big percentage of people. While I do think killing isn't something my morals and ethics allow I can understand his thought. And I also thought to myself maybe it's also a cultural difference.

So far that seems dumb but ok right? While I'm writing a reply my mom calls on the phone. I answer and she says "what was that weird message I received?". While my mom does not actively look through my chats she has access to my Instagram on her phone so all messages are also sent to her. So she opened the phone and saw the comment E wrote. I told her a bit of a half truth because I agreed with grandma that we wouldn't tell mom.she read through all the chat history with that E. I tried to explain to her what he meant but she said that you don't write that. Well she kind of started interrogating me on everything to which I offered half truths such as me saying that I came home later than I thought but said it was around one in the morning. And for that reason I couldn't say that I said we should go swim. She said that you don't swim and offer an adult man stranger to sleep especially when you don't have space and swim together at the sea. And because he is an adult he should have brought a fifteen year old to her home if he was an okay adult. I told her that it was my idea to show them around to such she said was a bad idea. Well in the end she said I should keep my distance from him and that adults nineteen year olds don't talk to fifteen year olds in the night. She said it was dangerous.

This is basically it. She thinks my actions where very wrong. I agree. In my whole life I've always been a very compliant child to rules and stuff so I thought you know...it's one time I'm gonna do something I don't usually do. And E was not showing any romantic iinterest in me or bad intentions. Even though some things he said where a bit...extreme (what I'm talking about is killing Donald Trump comment) and I'm pretty good at sensing danger even though of course I am not invincible. The only thing we did was talk about life. Nothing weird. Some fun or not so fun experiences we had. That's what she talked about. And the only thing we did was talk and eat some food. How can I make it clear that he doesn't have had intentions? And if you think he does I'd like to hear your opinion.

P.S she also said that apparently I was talking had about my family (the comment that I made about my mom earlier as a joke in my opinion). It is not the first time she gets angry that. It has happened that she went through a group chat that I had and I once said something like "ah you know my mom wouldn't let me do that id be dead" which in my generation is used as a joke! Humour! It's not that I'm trying to talk bad about her. And she said why is E asking if my grandma is scolding me or not. She said that he is doing this not because of inoccent intentions and that I shouldn't talk about my family to strangers and that he is assessing my situation. Ah well bonus before ending the call she asked "Did you view this call as a scolding?" To such I carefully replied with "no you didn't scold me"

What do you think?

Please if someone see this reply as soon as possible. Thank you so so so much for reading this essay.

Posted Aug 29, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

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