This happened a while back and I wonder who was in the right.
Two young women both went to Rome to learn Italian for a year.
At the time of arrival they didn't know each other but met and became friends in Italian school.
At the time both lived in different accommodation but both in a UK-style halls situation and both wanted to move into their own separate studio/ apartment type of places.
Let's call girl 1 Kara, and let's call girl 2 Tabitha.
Tabitha finds a notice board which lists a studio apartment and calls the owner asking for a viewing. Owner responds positively and gives Tabitha a time and date to attend the viewing.
On the day of the viewing Tabitha is running late and when she arrives at the meeting place (not the actual apartment but a train station nearby) she finds the owner has left and owner is not responding to her calls, nor subsequent calls.
A few days later, Tabitha tells Kara what happened. Kara sympathises and asks for the notice with contact details. Tabitha hands it over as she thought it was a lost cause anyway. A week later Tabitha learns that Kara met with the owner and is planning on moving in to the apartment.
Tabitha felt very bitter but equally Kara felt that it was now fair game.
Should Kara have alerted Tabitha back when the owner got in touch with her - i.e. should Kara had accepted that Tabitha should have first refusal?
Kara invited Tabitha for dinner at the new apartment but by all accounts the relationship was stretched at that point.