I (17F) like this dude (19M) who we will call “Silk” for the sake of my own privacy.. we will be using code names. and my frenemy, “Bloom” (16F). i recently met silk afew weeks ago, and he’s already really sweet, relatable, funny, and completely my type. bloom met him a year or two ago. and he liked her a lot, they flirted for months. he thought it was official because they were acting like couples, but he didn’t ask her out. which made her ‘upset’, and she confronted him saying she wanted to stay as friends because he’s giving mixed signals. then again, went back to flirting with him. he decided to ask her out to not repeat the same situation again, but she rejects him, saying she was ‘busy and stressed’ and ‘i’ll tell you when i’m ready so we can start dating”. fast forward, it’s been a year, nothing happened between them. and infact, she started liking another dude while he was waiting for her. and when it didn’t work out, she came back to him. at that point silk was done with that. he decided to start meeting new people, and that’s when he met me. we started off as normal friends, he told me about these situations, i comforted him and gave him advice. then we slowly started flirting, bloom didn’t know. but one of our friends started shipping me and him, which drove bloom to literally crash out. i was confused because.. didn’t you reject him ? and she was mostly upset because we don’t have a good past. i had argued with her because she put out my information to people i didn’t like, which lead to them using it against me. i don’t hate her, but i don’t like her. i’m still as friendly as i was to her, and kept my patience with her. but at that point silk didn’t care, and continued flirting with me. we still are, and i really like him. but i can’t help but feel guilty because of bloom. i thought i was inbetween them, and i felt like a distraction from bloom for silk. so i talked to him about it, and he made it clear that i was not a distraction, nor inbetween them. he was really gentle with me, and also made it clear that he’s not ready for a relationship, which i really respect and prefer because i’d love to get to know him better. but recently bloom stated she had 100 reasons to love him, and it was REALLY beautiful. and at this point, i really like silk. i know if she sends this, it might be over for me and i’d lose my chance forever. his birthday is tomorrow, and i’ve tried a lot to drop hints that i like him, but i don’t think he gets it.. AITAH ???