Background info: It has been two years since you started liking this guy. He is perfect. Personality included. Whenever you were with him you always smiled. He loved teasing you, and he would ask for your advice on things. 

Now it is the second year you have liked him. School is in session, and you have started hanging out again. You feel like he might like you back, but you try to ignore it for now. 

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You have finally mustered up the guts to tell him you like him. Right when you are about to tell him, he tells you he really likes your best, closest, and dearest friend. Your heart cracks slightly down the middle.

Nodding your head, you smile and and tease him about it, trying to hide the pain you were in. You couldn't tell him you liked him now. He asks you what you were going to say, but you push it aside. 

Later your best friend is eating lunch with you. You are playing truth or truth, and you ask, "Who do you have a crush on?" She doesn't want to tell you, but you finally convince her to tell you. She says the name of your crush.

Your heart cracks a little more, but it's ok. You should be happy for her. Her crush likes her back! That's amazing. Right?

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While hanging out, your crush asks you how to win your best friend's heart over. Thinking about it, you decide to tell him she likes him. 

When he finds out, he is ecstatic. You suggest he asks her out. Just saying the words breaks your heart more. The pain is starting to get worse. You try to numb the pain by ignoring it.

Later that night, he texts you and says that he is officially dating your best friend. When you read the text, your heart drops. You knew it was coming, but you didn't expect the pain to be this bad.

That evening while taking a shower, you bawl your eyes out. Being able to let it out was amazing. Although you still felt hurt. Your heart was almost completely broken.

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The next week was torture. You would see them together, and your heart would ache. Longing to have your old hope back. Trying to remember the days when you could see him without dying a little inside.

When you went to the movies, they decided to start a group chat with you in it. 

A few days later, you are at your friend's house. She lets you look at her phone, and you see a message appear from your crush. It was addressed to her, and it said the simple words, "I love you"

Those three words had the power to split your heart in two. You couldn't take it any longer.

You texted him on your phone, and told him you liked him. Liked him from the first time you met him. Waiting for a reply, you started crying. You never knew how much you liked him until now.

Looking down, you see that he is typing. Your broken heart starts filling with hope as to what he would say. 

When he finally sent the message it said, "I already knew..."