My Crush Is Helping Me Pursue Himself

Everyone at school says I have high standards.

People who pursued me lined up all the way from the dorms to the school gate, but I turned every one of them down.

They don't know I've liked someone since high school.

I've liked him for over two years, but I haven't dared say a word.

After the college entrance exams, I changed my application to the school he'd chosen.

He still has no idea.

In the third week of freshman year, I made someone up.

A student from the neighboring school. He played basketball, was a head taller than me, and didn't talk much.

I asked him to help me figure out whether this guy liked me.

He agreed.

From that day on, he gave me advice every day: how to start a conversation, what to give him, when to confess.

He was so serious about it.

And I listened just as seriously.

Because every word he said was really about himself.

Only he didn't know it.