Small claims for destruction of property.

Thursday night my “best” friend of about 4 years and I were at a bonfire with her boyfriend and boyfriends friend. We were very close so I’m still in a bit of a state of shock because the chain of events that involved me, I wouldn’t have imagined even being possible.

My friend and her boyfriend have a very toxic relationship and from what I understand from the things she has told me and things conversations I have overheard between them there’s a lot of fighting that goes on behind closed doors. Two years ago she broke her hand punching him, there’s just a lot of that type of stuff that goes on between them.. I have never seen it firsthand. Well I finally did, and unfortunately I was caught in the crossfires my property got obliterated in the process.

So...Thursday I met her around 4:30 pm and we had a few drinks and she seemed he’ll bent on getting drunk. She opened a bottle of beer in the car, and then proceeded to buy two fifths of tequila and was doing tequila tasting at the liquor store. She also does not eat much really ever so she gets quite drunk quite quickly. She asked me if I’d come out to the bonfire to hang out for a bit and I agreed, I was riding with her because I do not drive, I Uber everywhere and the bonfire was about an hour drive from my place of residence. I was fine with it, I agreed to stay and she agreed to take me home in the morning. No big deal.

We were having a great time at the fire dancing to WAP being silly laughing. Suddenly she was upset and started fighting with her boyfriend out of no where, I missed whatever started the “ fight”... I was chatting with the other guy there and had my whole back literally turned to them at the time of her getting so upset....She then tried to leave in her car, so I get into the car to try to find out what was going on and calm her down. I asked what was going on, and It wasn’t making sense (because it was nothing) I did not want her driving and I believe I told her that, so then she yells “fuck you” at me and kicks me out of the car and drives off.

So I walk back to the Fire...... After I get back to the fire she’s calling her boyfriend and I hear screaming through the speaker phone. At this point her boyfriend and I decide to drive to his house to make sure she’s ok, because that’s where she took off to, and I wanted to try to help to calm her down. It was about a 8 minute drive there, and when we arrived she was belligerent. She came running out of the house screaming at me, calling me a bad friend and then starts attacked her boyfriend physically.

I walk out to the front yard and start trying to call for an Uber and of course there are no drivers in the area. I try for about 25-30 mins and have no luck. I decide to go back inside and see if her boyfriend can take me back to the fire so I can find a ride and they are just fighting like crazy. When I walked inside she screams for me to get out of the house. Proceeds to question my loyalty to her and starts threatening to beat me up.....

I have NEVER seen her like this. I am sure she is in a blackout state. Of course at this point I’m very upset and I am appalled she’s behaving this way so I said, “really? Then hit me, I’m literally just trying to get the heck out of here”. As her boyfriend is holding her back from me. She breaks free from him and attacks me. She starts punching me several times in my face, and head. I grabbed her hair and start holding her down because she was literally attacking me not once did I hit her, after all, that is supposed to be my best friend. Finally she stops because I’m holding her down by her hair and I release her.

My phone had fallen on the ground during the attack. She then picks up my brand new iPhone 11 promax that I paid to upgrade for in May and she knows this, looks me dead in the eye, turns it screen side down and bangs it on the table about 5 times, hard.

At this point I’m literally in shock. I just go outside and she throws my wallet and my phone outside in the yard, comes out and is trying to tell me to come inside and that she’s trying to get me a ride, grabbing on me and trying to bring me inside.

I am hysterical at this point, stranded an hour away from home now with no phone and I’m trying to get her off me. Finally Her boyfriend comes out, face scratched and bleeding and gets me in the car and takes me back to the house that the bonfire was at. I end up sleeping there. Her boyfriend returns my wallet and shattered phone in the morning and tries to tell me she’s not ok, and she’s a “good person”.... I had an appointment I needed to get to, and I frankly didn’t care and told him to figure his shit out.

So here I am, my face is BRUISED, my bridge of my nose is busted, and I have huge goose eggs in several spots on my head. I’m almost positive I had a concussion as I’m still having a headache 4 days later.

I heard absolutely nothing from her the following day which was Friday. Finally after no contact from her I reached out to her Saturday afternoon and sent her pictures of my injuries and my phone and told her I want my phone replaced. I found out I wasn’t carrying insurance on the device of course. I just wanted her to fix the damage she did. I didn’t care how, I just wanted it fixed.

She then proceeds to tell me I broke her necklace, and she sends me AppleCare webpage with cracked screen replacement pricing ($329) and the price of her Swarovski necklace ($98) and says she will only Apple Pay me $230 since I “broke her necklace”....not an apology, not a sliver of shame. Just a woe is me, and my version of the events is not correct. I was not incoherent. I had maybe a total of 4 drinks from 4:30-10. I will own that. But She was out of control intoxicated, and probably angry already even before she got any alcohol in her system that day which I’m assuming led to her inappropriate outburst of aggression.

At this point I’m just disappointed, hurt, and appalled she’s playing the victim. She came unhinged on me. Someone who she calls her best friend....I wouldn’t ever imagine doing that to her, no matter what. So I blocked her on Facebook messenger because I was just over listening to her and then she started emailing me. I tell her again, exactly how I feel and if she wants to talk about anything she first needs to pick up the phone and take it to Apple if she thinks all it will need is a replacement screen. She then refuses to take it in herself to get fixed and finally Monday night sends me $230.

What I’m asking, kind people of reddit, what do I do? I was giving her the benefit of the doubt to do what’s right, fix the property she destroyed and maybe try to salvage some tiny bit of our friendship but I’m honestly over it. I do not care to save the friendship, it’s over. I’m fine with that.

The phone is worth $1600 and I think the damage is worse than a screen repair. Do I take her to small claims or do I try to just fix the screen? If I spend the $329 to fix the screen through Apple and the damage is worse than just a screen, can I take her for $1600 plus the $329 I am going to spend to try to fix the screen. Or do I wait all together, keep the money, and just take her to small claims for $1370?