He kept coming to my flat. I’ve no idea how or why it started, he just kept showing up for dinner most nights. It got to the point where I gave him a door key. We would watch TV, then he would go home. Eventually, on New Years Eve, I finally asked.
“Do you like me?”
“NO.”
He glared at me with an incredulous look, like I was stupid.
Then he stopped coming over.
A few years later, I announced my engagement, He apologised to me for acting weird.
He quickly added
“I’m getting engaged soon.”
Of course he was.
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