You like them so much you've rerouted your entire day to avoid running into them.
Something happens to you when you catch feelings: you vanish. Not because you don't care — because you care so much it short-circuits you. You take four hours to reply to a text you saw immediately. You walk a different route to avoid running into them. You become suddenly, inexplicably busy whenever they might want to hang out. It's not strategy. It's survival. Somewhere along the way you learned that wanting something too visibly is dangerous — that need is a liability. So you protect yourself by acting like you don't need anything at all. They're waiting for a sign. You're trying to remember how to breathe.
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