This happened shortly after I started college and I began experimenting with sex and was figuring out having FWBs. When I started I was very worried that the people I slept with would get attached and think we were dating or something (myself included at least a little bit). So during this time period I tried to be overly clear that it was just sex, but I also still tended to hang out causally with the people after meetups: playing video games, getting food, watching a movie, etc.
This is what was happening after the first time I’d hooked up with anyone from my high school. I go to a instate college so there are a lot of people from my high school class that attend. I’d been nervous setting it up with him as I had some weird stuff in highschool where people had basically turned to have a competition to sleep with me and it did weird things to my reputation, but he was a guy I’d always been into so when he showed interest at a party we were both at we started texting again. So I set up a time to meet. We’ll call him John.