Me (female, 26) and Anthony (also 26) had always had a pretty special friendship. We had met on the first week of highschool, and my first impression of him was that he was kinda weird. I had always been a calmer person who observed other people a lot, and didn’t have a lot of buddies. Instead, I only really hung out with a handful of people, but these were really good, close friends.
As a shy, tomboyish girl I didn’t dare to speak to anyone at the beginning. I finally mustered up the courage to talk to Anthony, after I noticed that he seemed to really have taken a liking to another girl in the class. He was ashamed that I had noticed, but I instantly assured him that he should talk to her, and in the end he was lucky enough and she ended up being his first girlfriend. From that day on, we had been super close friends who shared most, if not everything from our personal lives.