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Part of Me: *screaming* IS THIS SOME SECRET CONFESSION OF LOVE OR AM I OVERTHINKING AGAIN?

Your friend is saying you're not a horrible person cuz you are loved

Which is exactly the thought that should have crossed my mind, but NOOO because I like him, everything he says has a double meaning XD

You could tell him you like him

I could
And I could risk him totally rejecting me and then interacting with me awkwardly and ruining our fourteen-year friendship
(':
Also I'm pretty sure he likes someone else so like

If he's really your friend it won't change anything. I've gotten a couple of confessions in my time, I gently told them no but remained their friend.