It's funny, isn't it? How one person can make your heart ache with want? How they can just send you a one word reply and it'll still make you smile? How they know exactly how you're feeling even before you do? I'd never been the romantic, lovey-dovey type. Until I met him. At first, something inside me wanted to hate him. My best friend had a crush on him, and being overprotective and just plain evil comes with a price. I soon began to realize that he wasn't all "abs and attitude", he was sweet, and smart, and fascinatingly mysterious. Then I realized I was crushing. It was a shocking realization, especially for me, since I had locked away my heart and swallowed the key. But he somehow managed to melt the chains gaurding the entrance into my heart, and we became close, to the point where I wouldn't hesitate to tell him anything. That's when my best friend decided to make her move. They started dating, and soon fell in love, while I tried to avoid him and failed quite miserably. I missed everything she invited me to just so I wouldn't have to see him. I felt bad for ditching her, but my heart felt like it was getting stabbed repeatedly every time I saw him, and I knew that feeling much too well. Heartbreak. When they broke up, something inside me just failed to be remorseful. My best friend and I had been through so much during that time that I wasn't even talking to her, so why should I care if she lost her boyfriend? It wasn't my fault, anyway. Soon after, me and him started talking again. It was just like old times, with lots of meaningless jokes and feelings that I would never share with anybody else. I managed to keep myself from falling for him, but he had a soft spot on my heart that would throb whenever he told me he missed me or that I was his favorite friend. "Friend." That always made my heart ache, but I swallowed down all of my true feelings. After all, he was amazing, and deserved someone much better than plain ol' me. And when he told me he had feelings for me, my heart literally stopped beating. I tried to play it cool, but my brain didn't seem to cooperate. My cheeks were flaming and they hurt from smiling so big. Days passed and we were pratically a couple, but I was so afraid to make it official. I didn't want to give him my heart. But it was somehow drawn to him. No, I had never been the lovey-dovey type. But I was completely and utterly in love with him.