>>18625745>'This is where things began to teeter-totter on the edge between the line that separates people that share the bond of friendship, and those that share the equally yet less painful bond of friendship with additional beneficiaries.'The hug lasts a bit longer than it should, Chople and Alice stay embracing each other until that fact becomes obvious. That and
something starts to poke Alice."E-Eh? Chople, i-is that...?"
"Is that...what?"
"Your nose.">'It was touching hers.'"Oh! Sorry about that, I may have overshot that a tad, again sorry, I'm not particularly used to these kinds of things."
>'I couldn't have been more right at the time, an elongated hug clearly wasn't enough for me. It was more than obvious that at this point I was deeper down the rabbit hole, far past the simple things like interest, friendship and crushes. The brazen truth was that I really liked her, and I wanted her to know that, and return those same feelings.'>'It was much too late to do anything about it though. Too late and too cold. We had already spent a majority of our time talking about what fun really meant, and in the end we never really reached a concrete point. I recall making it a point to bring up the matter soon--I assumed beforehand that a 'soon' existed.' 