No Good Deed Goes Unpunished...

Apparently, I'm having an unpopular week. I need to tell this as a story to protect the innocent (and guilty). The main character of this story is Andy.

Where Andy lives, there are a couple of females. An older one, Stacy, and a younger one, Beth. They never talk and don't really know each other. So, when Stacy told Andy that the owner of the house, Brad, told her that Beth used to be in pornography, Andy was skeptical and decided to bring it to the person in question, who initially laughed it off. When Beth talked to Brad, he approached Andy and told him that he should have brought it to him, not Beth. Andy disagreed.

Nothing came of this for several days, until last night. Beth finally confonted Stacy about the rumor, who now claimed that she heard it from a back yard visitor, not Brad. Stacy immediately approached Andy and asked him why he said something to Beth.

"Because it was gossip about her and she deserved to know," Andy responded.

Stacy tried to use Andy's earlier words against him. She tried claiming that his conversations about his roommate frustrating him and locking him out were gossip, but he retorted that was a situation that directly impacted him; the rumor about Beth being in porn had nothing to do with Stacy and she had no business repeating it. Furthmore, it wasn't true.

So, Stacy kept harrassing Andy. She would ask why he said something and refused to accept, "It was gossip," as the answer. Finally, she left frustrated and called Brad. When Brad came home, he again approached Andy as he had before.

"Stacy called me and told me that you told Beth about her being in porn," Brad stated.

"Yeah, you already knew about that," Andy responded. "I didn't say anything tonight, Beth and Stacy talked about it, then Stacy came to me asking why I told Beth."

"Well, don't say anything to anyone else again," Brad interrupted. "In fact, don't talk to either of the girls at all. If this doesn't stop, I'll just kick everyone out so I don't have to deal with it at all."

Andy was dumbfounded. He had done the right thing in not repeating the rumor and told the victim about what was being said and now he was being singled out as the culpit of the crime. And he didn't know what Stacy had said to Beth in response, so he didn't know if Beth was still going to join him for the event they were going to the next night.

Today, Andy broke Brad's request and called Beth up to find out if she was still going. He then told her about being confronted by Stacy and then Brad.

"I don't know what's going on," Andy told her. "I feel like I'm being turned into the bad guy here."

"Trust me," Beth assured him. "You are not the bad guy in any of this. I'll talk to Brad for you."

"Thank you, Beth." Andy responded. "I'm glad to know that you have my back. I'll see you tonight."

And with that, Andy smiled and hung up the phone. Feeling a little better, but still concerned with how the situation had progressed. It seems that no good deed goes unpunished in Andy's world.

Does anyone have any advice for Andy?