We were Just Friends: Until She Said You’re Cute

Let’s start with the universal truth: When a boy and a girl say they’re “just friends,” one of them is lying — they just don’t know it yet.
It always begins harmlessly. You start talking every day, texting memes, sharing Spotify playlists, and pretending it’s purely platonic. You tell your friends, “We’re like siblings!”
Sure you are — until one of you starts noticing how good they look when they laugh. And then it begins — the great emotional circus.
Suddenly, your best friend becomes the one person you think about 24/7, and you’re like, “Wait, am I in love or just bored?”
You start overanalyzing texts like they’re ancient scriptures: “He said ‘goodnight 🙂’ instead of just ‘goodnight’. The emoji means something.”
You convince yourself it’s nothing serious — but then they start dating someone else and your inner peace files for divorce.
Meanwhile, both of you continue the lie: “We’re just friends.”