Please please PLEASE bare with me, I’m not a detective, and neither an officer, and I might as well be a hypocondriac. Also I’m not really in the mental state to write cohesive paragraphs. Thank you in advance for your patience. I am, or, was, in a small friendgroup trio with friend X and friend Y. Now, friend X has been doing shrooms for a while, I regret not doing anything more, but I told him multiple times to stop, but drugs are taboo, we’re all young and like to experiment. I’ve always been sober, never taken anything, always hard denied, even cigarettes I never tried, friend Y did also try shrooms though. However recently, about 3 months or so ago he got his hands on DMT, after that it’s not been the same. Now I want to make it clear I did not know this until recently, and it only just clicked. Sign one. About, I want to say 3 weeks ago or so, before out finaal exams, or graduation exams I think you’d call them, I got in a call to play games with friend X. Slowly the conversation devolved into phylosophy. He said after taking DMT his eyes have opened, he said he knows how the universe works and that we’re in a constant loop of dying and repeating the same events until we break free, and that he did break free. I told him he has no way of knowing if it’s true for we cannot know, were cursed to know enough to not know enough. He said he does know, and that he is here on earth to help people break free, and this is where the first sigh appeared. He said morality is subjective and he could go kill friend Y ( yes, he name dropped friend Y ) and nothing would change because morality is human made. I chucked it up to Y being a close to pick name from a dozen. My mistake. Sign two. After that we played games again, late into the night again. I told him plainly that I do not want to have conspiratorial or philosophical discussions again and that theres beauty in a simple life, of joy and ignorance. His reply was that I am stuck in the loop and that if he was me, he’d kill himself to speed up the proccess of breaking free. Towards the end I made a joke along the lines of “dude, if were not meant to eat at night, why do fridges have a light inside them” , just dry humor, but what he said shook me. He said something like “if humans are not meant to be killed, why are they so squishy haha” . After this It was clear that I needed to distance myself from him, or at least, that’s what I thought was best. I don’t know if I regret it, I don’t know if I should regret it, not handing him to capable people, not being there enough, not telling anyone, I feel it’s too late now. But he was not stable mentally, I was scared to be there for him. Sign three, present day. We finished our final exams couple weeks ago, ever since then I’ve not heard of friend Y. He was always secretive about his future, he never talked about college plans or career plans or anything like that. Come 3 days ago and friend X is messaging me, saying he’s worried about friend Y because he’s not been online on anything in 2 months. So I decided I would reply this once, I pointed out how secretive he’s always been, and that maybe he got a job and doesn’t have time for games anymore. He said “dude I’m seriously worried what if he died or something” , alarms start blaring in my head about the worst outcome possible, again I brush it off, ‘come on man it’s never that crazy’ type of thinking. Today he called and messaged me again, I answered his message. We spoke a little about how were worried for him and what he could be up to, I start recording the messages just in case. He says maybe we should go to check on him together at his place someday. We agree that there’s something seriously wrong, and he says “well whatever he’s doing, he was a good guy, may the universe rest him, sincerely amen, there’s nothing I can do” . I ‘sarcastically’ send “dude you’re saying this like he died yesterday haha, he’s probably got important things to do post highschool” he says “in any case man, you never know” . We send a few more chats for a minute I try to keep my unserious mask on and again he drops “well, idk, it is what it is, rest his soul” , and the conversation abruptly ends.
To me, in my brain, it loosely sounds like they met up, friend X did something horrible to Y, and then he started planting seeds for an alibi, things like sending him messages and calling him still, talking to me about what could have happened and so on. I checked the news reports in my home town, nothing came up about any missing people or murderers or anything of the sort, wich lifts my spirits a little since it’s very small city and grave things like this don’t go unreported often. I know fucking reddit isn’t the best place for this but I just need it off my chest and I need the internet’s opinion before I talk to someone IRL, it’s ass backwards I know. Please tell me there’s some links here, tell me I’m not crazy, help me out.
And I thank you if you read all of this, I don’t know how to streamline it, I really don’t, I’m sorry.