#14: Asking for a Friend
It’s the oldest trick in the book – “my friend wants to know how you feel about them.” Well, instead of committing to the friend bit for the duration of the text exchange, this person started chatting with their love as themselves. “How do you feel about me? Also if I come down on Friday wanna chill for a bit?”

However, once the crush explained they always looked at the convo initiator as a friend and they’d be “hanging with a friend this weekend as well,” this person switches personas over to being the “friend of the friend.” To conceal their pain, after the crush said they don’t see more happening, the initial texter wrote “I knew that; my friend didn’t.” Sure you did…