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ask questions from the heart: the remix Finally! You can ask all the questions about matters of the heart, love, and romance that have been burning that hole through your curiosity. Ask away! Delve deep! Nothing is off-limits! Except for that. RULES ○ Don’t leave your comment blank. This go ‘round, your character asks the love-adjacent and related questions!

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[detechs]

Do you have the requisite experience?

[reorienting]

My experience is limited to one romantic, non-sexual relationship that started as friendship and lasted...

[He pauses, trying to count, it was so long ago...]

...Six or seven years.

My memories may be a little hazy. It was a long time ago....

[detechs]

When did you know it was different than friendship?

[reorienting]

It is a little hard to say, but for certain, it was when she explicitly asked me out on a date, with romantic intentions, and I said yes. We went to a restaurant by the harbor, and we sat there, talking for so long that we wound up getting kicked out at closing.... About anything. Everything.

[Faintly, he starts to smile at the memory.]

She protected me from bullies, when we were growing up, and was always there for me no matter what happened, the good, and the bad. And... hearing her intentions, I could not help but think "this was meant to be." Which is strange... because I generally do not have faith in anything but what I can experience first hand, or details from evidence-backed creations and reports.

But I had faith in her. In her affection, in her love. And the more she got to know me, and I her, the more in love we both fell.

Though I was not really aware before her proposition, in hindsight, I had been in love with her since I was little. I was just too young and lacked the knowledge at the time to fully grasp my own feelings, let alone name them. It can go unnoticed for so long until it hits me in the face with the force of a truck.

I just thought all friendships made you feel jittery and excited, like butterflies in your blood. Because she was my first and only friend, I lacked the experience to understand that not all friendships feel that vibrant and intense.