You and a friend had a falling out — nothing huge, the kind of thing that usually blows over. But this friend has decided to handle it differently. They've started talking to your other friends about you, telling their version of the story, getting people to take their side. People who were fine with you yesterday are suddenly cool, and you're not even sure what they've been told. You feel the ground shifting under you. The actual disagreement was small, but now it's turned into something much bigger, and you're losing friends over a story you didn't get to tell.