“I want to get to know you better. I wasn't lying when I said it felt like out of all six BTC girls, I spend the least amount of time with you. Yes, I want to have more conversations with you. You fascinate me, and I want to know everything there is to know about you."

"You want more quality time with me."

“Well, yeah."

“And you love me.”

“Absolutely.”

Sam furrowed her eyebrows.

“Then I don't understand why you said you don't want to be my boyfriend."

“I didn't say I didn't want to be your boyfriend. But I do need to admit I'm not completely sure about it, either."

“That's basically the exact same thing to me. You're either ‘in' or you're ‘out'."

“I'm in, I'm in," I assured her, "if that's what you really want as well. Is it?"

Sam Looked REALLY frustrated now.

“I don't get why YOU'RE not sure it's what you want. The whole thing with being in love with me, that I'm your favorite, that you want me to be a permanent part of your life... wasn't that basically asking me to be your girlfriend?"

I frowned and shook my head. "I thought I explicitly told you I wasn't asking you to be my girlfriend.”

“Because you didn't want to mess up my life and because I'd made clear for months that I didn't have time for a boyfriend."

"Exactly!"

“But I thought..." Sam was pretty huffy now.

“I thought you were just saying that stuff to be... I dunno... Like, you were in love with me and you wanted to be my boyfriend but you knew I didn't have time for a boyfriend so you were just trying to be nice about it and say it would be okay that I wasn't your girlfriend but deep down you actually wanted to be my boyfriend."

I pulled my head back.

“Is THAT what you thought?”

“YESI"

I shook my head. "I'm pretty plain about what I mean."

Sam narrowed her eyes and muttered, "Tell me if this sounds familiar:

Last year I'm dry-humping virgin Matty's boner out by the pool peeling back my bikini inch-by-inch while shoving my tits into his face, and when I ask him if it's okay that I don't bare my nipple and let him suck on it, he says it's okay."

I blinked and frowned. "It WAS okay."

“You saying you didn't secretly wish I'd bare my nipple and let you suck on it back then?"