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Posted by u/anonymousgalaxy12 | 1 hour ago
My (21m) family and friends think me and my best friend/college roommate (20m) are dating. We aren’t??
Look I’m not usually the type of guy to vent out these things, but I want to get this off my chest. I’m using a throwaway account since my siblings do know my main account and I’d rather not talk to them about this since they’ll just think I’m joking and absolutely trash on me (again)
I’ll share some background before I get to my main point! So, I’m a 3rd year astrophysics major at Hope’s Peak University. I stayed with my grandparents during my 1st year to help them out with whatever they needed since they’re getting older, but by the start of my 2nd year I thought it would be easier to be on campus because of the amount of requirements I’ll need for an astronaut program I wanna get into. I was a bit worried but my grandparents assured me they’ll be fine! So I managed to snag a nice dorm with a beautiful view of the city and stars from the window, and I moved in like a week before classes began to get a head start
That’s when I met my roommate, “Shu.” Shu was a shy guy, and I mean REALLY shy. He was like a year younger than me and in the first few weeks he’d always wear this hat which NEVER made sense to me since he was pretty and in almost every conversation he barely spoke much! He’s a criminology major hoping to be a detective, and I don’t know much about that stuff but from what I heard he’s always top of his classes even though they’re hard! Yet every time he talks about his skills he always underestimates himself and held himself back like a coward! So you know, I decided to help him out! I mean we weren’t friends at the time but I wanted to become closer to the dude since y’know, we’ll be living together for a while!
So I invited him to my training sessions, which were usually just push-ups and sit-ups, he reluctantly joined and although he struggled (to an amount that was a bit concerning but hey i’m not one to judge), and he’s improving! Over time we just started taking care of each other, like two weeks ago he skipped some of his classes when I had the flu to take care of me and make me some nice soup, or whenever he gets overwhelmed at a party, I ask if he wants to leave and take him stargazing, sometimes we’d talk for hours while doing that! I’m just being thoughtful, nothing romantic!!
He’s genuinely one of the kindest and smartest people I’ve ever met, I’ll admit he’s smarter than me! He has a soft smile that can light up a room and immediately calm me down when I’m stressed. I’ve never been more comfortable with anyone and even I’ve opened up about my problems to him since he’s one of the only people who understand! He’s one of my closest friends, which I guess is where the rumors started. They were stupid so of course I ignored them, the problem is my friends and family started to believe it too! Like my friend from high school, “M” asked me about the blue-haired boy I was dating, and my brother “Ko”, the little shithead that he is asked me “when he was gonna meet his future brother-in-law.” Hell, even my grandparents asked when I was gonna bring over the shy boyfriend that they’ve been hearing about!
Every damn time I deny it they all just give me this look like they knew I was lying but I wasn’t?? Even my other friends thought I was dating him and thought I was joking when I said we weren’t, one of them even asked if we had a big fight and that’s why I was denying it???? I haven’t even told him about all this since I didn’t wanna make our friendship awkward and I don’t even know what to do at this point. It's like I'm the ONLY ONE who isn't aware of this relationship. Just to clarify, I wouldn’t be ASHAMED if I was dating Shu, he’s a really sweet and considerate guy, if I were dating him I’d be bragging about him non-stop! But I have NO romantic feelings for him as far as I know, zero, NADA. Even if I somehow DID have said feelings, he wouldn’t like me back anyway so what’s the point!
That post was long as hell, but I really needed to get that off my chest, not sure if I’ll ever update this post but if anyone has any advice please share, I genuinely don’t know how to stop all this