When I was obsessing over everything in my head, nothing made sense. I still totally wanted to date her, but I could make jokes about it, talk to my friends about my feelings, and I wasn’t obsessing over it in my head. Once I finally told her and she was like ‘I’m not gay, tho’ things were a lot easier. It was already weird and uncomfortable because I FELT WEIRD AND UNCOMFORTABLE. I didn’t tell her for a while that I was into her because I was afraid it would make things weird or uncomfortable or she would think I was an idiot or whatever. This story does not end in ‘turns out she was gay and we are in love now” at all.

What did I do? I asked her to date me almost every day. I was 100% head over heels, ready to lay in front of a bus for, could have been married that second, spend your life together, in LOVE with my straight best friend in college. We get this question all the time, so we wanted to revisit because (1) helping people (2) FISK.