by Naeekohaja » Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:58 am
Dear you,
Have you ever had that awkward moment when you know that your best friend of the opposite gender likes you?
Furthermore, have you ever had that awkward moment when that best friend likes you, but you don't feel the same?
Well, that's my dilemma. He's my best friend. We talk to each other every day. We have a plethora of inside jokes that not a lot of friends have. Everyone thinks that me and him should be together, and they let that be known pretty much daily. They say we would be a cute couple and get married and be together forever.
What a lot of them don't realize is that I don't want that kind of relationship with him. He's like a brother to me, someone I can annoy the heck out of, but yet still be there for when he is in trouble with his parents, has problems in school work, etc. What I can't do, though, is be his everything in that romantic aspect because I don't feel the same way. I've had to watch one relationship of his fall apart, and be the shoulder to cry on for both my best girl friend and him. Now he has feelings for me because I was there for him AND, at one point, I did like him that way.
But not anymore. And with the rumor going around that he's going to ask me out soon, I don't want to be the person to put his heart on the dirty ground and tell him "no".
I have rehearsed what I'll say a million times, but that doesn't make what it must feel to be rejected by the person you love any less painful. And I've never wanted to be the person that he's hurting about. I hate being that person. It makes me wonder what people say about me to their friends, family - if I'm any less of a friend as a result.
It's just something I've been thinking about and had to get off my chest. If you read through this whole thing, thank you for listening. And if this guy friend somehow figures out I'm on Chicken Smoothie and I posted this (he probably won't. He doesn't even know this site exists), please understand where I'm coming from, and you're still the best friend in the whole wide world.
Love,
Nae