No, nope, no, I do not already have longstanding feelings for you that started the day I met you and that haven’t gone away despite my best efforts, and I don’t know where you read that but it was fake news. And see, now I’m gaslighting you, which everyone knows is poison to relationships! This is a bad idea already! I never should’ve told you, and I should have just let you woo me just to cut you off before it went anywhere serious because that would be easier than trying to figure this out! For one, I’m fairly certain it’s not allowed, or at least, not in the way I always imagined exploring this… whatever we have. For another, just liking each other is different than dating, so we have no way of knowing if it’ll impact us differently in our academic lives! I don’t think I’ll change either, or at least I hope I won’t, because I really like who I am, but so many people change just because the guy they’ve been fantasizing about for years finally notices them and what if deep down, I was always that weak person and we just didn’t know it? And what if we don’t learn how to be good partners together? I don’t want to try this just to fuck around. I’m not even sure I want to try it at all but if I do, it’s for the long haul, Gabriel, not for some “you’re cute and fun and I’ll always be happy you were my first but not my last” bullshit.
THE DAY WE MET? We’ve both been into each other SINCE WE MET and it took this long for you to give any indication that I wasn’t just flirting in vain!? As good as you are at HIDING YOUR FEELINGS FOR ME, you’re not that good at gaslighting me, so who cares. This is a great Idea and I get that you’re talking yourself out of this because you’re scared, but quit it. I know figuring out what this is will be kind of rough and not at all what you want to do, but I have faith that this will all work out for us in the end. How have you always imagined exploring this??? I don’t study already, so it’s not like me spending my time on you you would ruin my GPA and I know you wouldn’t just let me have the upper hand. Also it is literally impossible for you to secretly be weak, so I’m not even going to entertain that notion because it’s stupid. I don’t want this to be just a mess around thing either. The way I see it, the only reason we won’t learn to be good partners together is because we’ll just fall into being great together naturally. I think we really have the potential to be something amazing. Definitely not some short little “first but not the last” thing, the way I see it, you just might be the Only One.