Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

Gayle Forman

Our school break was mere days away, and he hadn’t said anything! I’m not one for hinting, so I waited, silently hoping. Blurred lines persisted from the infancy of our relationship, but something in him had changed since Christmas, and we’d been inseparable. I tried to ignore the emphatic suspicions of my roommates. Being in love with your best friend is scary enough without the fear that he might feel the same way. He already loved me with an almost surgical precision – a completeness that sometimes seemed unreal. If there could be more than this, I certainly wasn’t ready!