Hello. Name changed for this.
Last week while lazily browsing the Internet I decided to look up an old University classmate who works in publishing and has kept in touch sporadically over the years. Last time was probably 10 years ago.
I noticed she has written a few short stories and they’re available as ebooks. Now, she very kindly sent me a copy of her first (self-published) book which I didn’t particularly enjoy but as Kindle is so cheap and immediate I thought I’d look at what was available. Scrolling through the titles one dated 2012, so 2 years after we last had contact, caught my eye. The plot seemed eerily familiar so I downloaded it.
FGS she’s written about our friendship as 18yos, including very specific details about appearance, family facts, habits. Nothing particularly unflattering....
BUT THEN it turns into a lesbian fantasy of fondling, fingering and oral sex (my character on hers)!
None of which actually happened, nor did I ever want it to happen. I’m a happily married heterosexual with no lesbian experience. To me at the time she was just a lost and slightly creepy friend/classmate who I told once, very clearly after a timid advance, I was not interested in for anything more than companionship.
This happened on Sunday. After a day or so of feeling alternately flattered to have been transformed onto the printed page and furious at the misrepresentation I now don’t know what to do!
I don’t want to show it to anybody close, especially not to DH, as it does expose some of my 18yo self-doubt and spikiness quite accurately. She is a writer, after all.
I also think it would be best to let bygones be bygones. We have no contact and have each gone our own way in life.
However, it does seem a huge violation to have been so literally transported into a “scene” that I have never been interested in. Part of me wants to kick back.
What would you do?