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its been a while since i got to really hang with him so im not sure how tall he is
shorter than me still at least
but yeah hes pretty ok
a total dorkwad but the nicest guy i know
which maybe doesnt say much but what the hell thats good enough for me
weve been bros since forever

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[She has a moment of pause but]

they're always like that aren't they?
super dorky and super nice and the kind who you you make friends with and then you can't imagine the world without them

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yeah


you want to talk about them?
your john i mean

[hashtagafreakingghost]

what?
oh
I was doing that wasn't I
i could
his name is chris
he's the one with the bad movie tastes
my best friend in the whole world

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does he have glasses

[Welcome to shit-eating little brother world, Ashley.]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[not again]

fuckin
i walked right into that one didn't i

yes
and if you were asking this like a WEEK ago i'd be denying furiously so keep the teasing to a MINIMUM

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haha ok ok im an understanding guy i get you
here ill restrain myself to two characters
are you ready
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B)
there thats it youre safe from all the winking and nudgin i got in me

[hashtagafreakingghost]

thank you

aaaa now I'm all embarrassed!!
we hadn't even really talked about it for real before I was dragged here so it feels weird to even say something
he's just (ok not JUST) been my best friend for sooo long and even if I wanted something to happen I didn't know if it WOULD
so now it's re-conceptualizing everything
you know?

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kinda?
i mean i dont think ive been in that position exactly
(especially not with john lmfao no no no never)
but
yeah i guess when i was younger there was someone i was interested in who mightve liked me back and maybe we almost couldve done something with that but circumstances happened
so
we didnt

[hashtagafreakingghost]

oh Dave, I'm so sorry :(
are you still at least able to talk about it?
missed opportunities like that are the worst :/

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i mean
it was kind of a dumb middle school type
um
christ i dont want to say crush it makes me sound so uncool
but we always had sort of a special relationship and it mightve gone somewhere but then we didnt see each other for a while
and other things happened in the intervening time
so i guess im kind of embarrassed to bring it up now

[hashtagafreakingghost]

hey
I fell for Chris when I was 13
just because you were young doesn't mean it wasn't special
and no matter what's happened
even if your feelings are different now you should still talk about it!!
it might be hard but it's worth it to talk about

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god no hahaha
never ever
or i dont know maybe when were both five hundred years old and drowning in pokebabies and safely out of any danger of making it weird we can laugh about what dumb infants we were at one point
but being heres honestly a god given break from teenage romance drama and im gonna bask in it as long as possible

[hashtagafreakingghost]

alright if you insist
all I'm saying is you don't want to wait until you have no choice but tell her

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i mean

ive told her other things
things that i think in the end are more important than that
so thats good enough for me rn she doesnt need to know about my dweeby puppy crush from years ago

[hashtagafreakingghost]

if she knows the important things
then that's what matters

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you know
she has glasses too

[hashtagafreakingghost]

is that so?
we share a type :p

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well i dont know about THAT
shes not taller than me
though i guess she could probably benchpress two of me simultaneously so its not like shes not physically impressive

[hashtagafreakingghost]

oh I hope you don't think I meant Chris is strong because there is nooo way he can even pick up one of me
I mean
not to say he's WEAK but
all I'm saying is his impressive traits are abundent elsewhere

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yeah well
jades not the same kind of funny dork as john but shes still un fucking believably sweet and nerdy as hell
which i cant really say is my TYPE or not seeing as theres literally not a single person i know whos not a humongous egghead about something
so i guess i can concede that we share at least half a type

[hashtagafreakingghost]

then I can give you advice ;)


joking aside I've been crushing on like just him for five years so he kind of makes my type
super awkward at sleepovers
"so Ashley what kind of guy do you like?"
"oh you know, one exactly like this one guy you know haha!!"
bleh

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hahaha
at least no ones drawing real people shipping charts of you telling you you got no choice but to marry him
god we were all such dumb assholes at thirteen i dont know how we survived to total grownuphood

[hashtagafreakingghost]

omg WHAT??
no no one's ever done that!!
for years though josh ha i mean some friends have gotten weird about it in their own way
but did someone really seriously do that with you and jade???

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me and jade
and john and rose
by some dickmunch who HARDLY EVEN KNEW US AT THE TIME
christ
i kind of miss that asshole but hell do i not care about his goddamn fucking obsession with romantic entanglements
especially as it intersected with my attempts to maybe try the whole dating thing for myself