take it from me, every guy should ALWAYS worry about the boy best friend, and every girl should worry about the boy best friend.

because i was the girl best friend, and he was the boy best friend.

i refused to believe we could be anything more, it never even crossed my mind.

even after the eight months straight that we spent hanging out, the times we slept together in the back of his car, the “goodmorning” and “goodnight” texts.

it meant nothing to me. not because i didnt care, but because i was oblivious.

i continued to talk to other guys, unknowingly breaking his heart in the process. i went as far as bringing him along to hang out with these other guys, not thinking anything of it.

until the day he told me.

it was a story that lingers in the back of my mind, even over a year later.

“i have to tell you something” a text from him lit up my phone as i was walking into school.

it clicked. i knew what was going on now. how could i be so blind?

it took him all day to say it with his chest, and i turned him down. the stupidest decision ive ever made, but i was scared to ruin the friendship.

i loved him. so much. but not in the right way.

until i did. one day it finally hit me. i was in love with him.

i have no idea why it took me so long.

“i am in love with you” i typed out on my phone immediately after getting home from hanging out with him.

“i love you too” he said at 5 in the morning.

our first kiss happened a few days later.

not long after, he became my boyfriend.

always watch out for the boy best friend.