Gaslighted

I have recently met someone new on Hinge, whom I shall refer to as Drew, and we have been going out on a few dates, we hadn't discuss about being exclusivity and are still in the midst of trying to know one another.

During this period of getting to know one another, I have also still been matching with new people on Hinge, not as much, but I did recently match with this new guy called Billy and we were able to hit it off really well. We have been talking for maybe a week and at the start, it was very sporadic, in that he would reply immediately to my messages but I will take a few hours to get back to him, just because that is kinda my style now so I don't feel too overwhelmed, but over the weekend, I became a bit more responsive after we added  each other on Instagram.

Yesterday, I had a date with Drew, and when Billy asked me if I had any plans, I just told him I was gonna meet someone for lunch.

So the date is going on and in the midst of it, Billy messages me and ask me jokingly how the "date" is going, I didn't reply immediately because I was still hanging out with Drew, it was only after we the date was over did i get back to Billy, and I told him it went well, to which he went...

"So it really is a date?" 

"Hello!"

... I replied to that with "Hahaha, you guessed it right!", and he proceeds to react to my message with a thumbs up, since he hadn't ask me anything else, I kinda just left it at that. When I "react" to someone's message without typing anything, it usually means I don't really feel like chatting anymore, but I also don't want to leave you on read, so I will just give you a reaction instead.

Anyways, fast forward to an hour or 2 later, I proceed to post some photos of the date on my insta-stories and he replies to one of them with...

"The date must have went well!"

... and I replied and told him it was interesting, I just didn't want to get into too much detail because it felt weird to talk to a Hinge match about my date with another Hinge match,  he then suddenly replies to that message with...

"I am getting the vibe that you aren't really interested in talking to me anymore"

... and that completely threw me off! He told me that he felt like the whole conversation between us is now giving him an odd vibe with the "sudden silence" and "change in tone", and I got even more fucking confused because what sudden silence and change in tone are you talking about? I asked him what he meant by sudden silence because what the fuck are you talking about? He then told me he felt like I wasn't interested to share with him too much about my date and took that as a sign that I was not interested in talking anymore, so I had to explain to him that it was because I was worried he would be uncomfortable hearing me talk about my hinge date with him, and he goes...

"It's okay bro, we are not even together, so I totally understand you going on dates. You don't owe me any explanation and you are not obligated to share the details of your dates with me."

HUH!?!?!?!

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!!

YOU WERE THE ONE WHO BROUGHT IT UP! 

... holy fucking shit. I was so fucking confused the entire fucking time I was texting with him, I told him I enjoyed talking to him and had hoped we could just continue chatting as per normal, but with the exception of my dates with other people, and he replied with...

"I am all up for that, but it feels weird right now and I don't know what is going on with us anymore."

... OMFG!?!?! 

It wasn't weird at all until he brought it up!

You made things weird and now you are telling me it feels weird, well no shit sherlock! The gaslighting is CRAZY!