friend crushes

hallway crushes..... chemistry crushes....... work crushes...... TikTok crushes..... FUCK all dem they don't compare to a FRIEND CRUSH!!!!!! this shit genuinely drives me insane because it's like Yes hello beautiful it would be so beautiful together laughing and holding hands and frolicking and crying together Yes hello Hi i like your style I like your face Hello can we be friends? BUT THEN IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE TO PLAN IT AT THE RIGHT TIME.... like ok i know we are going to be friends one day but how.... you have to kinda savor it... and be super rizzful.... and then one day... Boom the Universe puts you both together and it's like finally.... i think friendship is sososo special because i feel this way about basically all of my fucking friends because they are literally...... the coolest beings on the Earth.... and it's ESPECIALLY NICE when you guys have that conversation about first impressions and you guys BOTH find out you had a "friend crush" on each other hahahahaha!!

here are friend crush love stories i have gathered:

angelica + vanny

angelica:

my bff Vanny actually!!! what’s funny is that we both sort of had a friend crush on each other, or at least acknowledged an invisible string. i’ve known her since elementary school but only knew of her existence. she was popular to me and she seemed cool, so i wanted to be her friend. it wasn’t until 7th grade though we got seated next to each other for our science class and she asked for my colored pencils, and the rest is history!  it was fun to later hear that she felt a similar way about me growing up and that we both knew our friendship was fate.

vanny:

oh baby okay.. i just had a conversation about this like 2 weeks ago with her actually and i asked her if she thinks our meeting was fate and what not and honestly we both think it was. our first meeting and first impression of each other wasn’t anything crazy, i remember this one memory i have of her from elementary where i saw her sitting alone and drawing at a table and i wondered what she was drawing and wondered why she was sitting alone, but we weren’t friends until middle school. i thought she was really funny which is how we did become friends. eventually we found out (lowkey trauma bonded) we went through similar certain situations (which was crazy because i’ve never met someone who went through the same thing i did around the same time). we had the same humor, love for certain songs or things and we were locked in. we didn’t become fullllyy locked in till like high school to be honest but yeah even then i wholeheartedly believe that us meeting each other and growing up together was bound to happen and i would die for that girl, truly.

tony + kayla

tony:

she had AP stats after me and now… suddenly… i took hella long to pack up from stats and would hang out outside the classroom. Midnights by Taylor Swift also dropped at that time so i used that as well.

kayla:

OK so for sure we met at one of our first UNICEF board officer meetings. i actually did NOT know who Tony was beforehand until that day so when i found out about your name when the list of officers came out, i was like “who’s Tony? i’ve never heard of him before.” lol. it’s kind of ironic now because so many people know him, he’s practically an icon and celebrity (seriously). at first, i thought he was a pretty chill and a somewhat reserved person but over time we definitely got along well and opened up because of our media experiences. overall, being in UNICEF helped because participating in the club and doing volunteer activities was basically how we started becoming friends. plus, over the years we also ended up having some mutual friends so that played a factor too. also!! sidetrack, but i also developed massive respect because he’s and is still SO GOOD AT MATH and really passionate about the subject; i really respect people who are passionate about what they love doing. honestly our friendship developed so naturally because i really enjoy talking to him about so many things including our shared interests and stuff (also helps that media work is one of our passions); it was very easy to open up about things as time passed and it was a sign that i still wanted to keep in contact with him after graduation.

khannah + davian

khannah:

in sophomore year Davian was in my math class and we never got to talk but i thought she was pretty and cool so i wanted to be her friend but we never had a chance to talk in class and we didn’t have any mutual friends. in junior year math, i was sitting with Cat and Jaimie and Davian sat with us because she was family friends with Jaimie, so we got to talking. we got closer because we would mess around in class since it was just a free period and we just stayed in touch!

davian:

i thought Khannah was a little loud… and out there… and i wanted to be more like her (???) AND THEN WE GOT SO HAPPY WHEN WE HAD MATH TOGETHER IN JUNIOR YEAR!!!!! and we got close soooo suppperrr quick.

kylynne + aaron

kylynne:

when i first met Aaron i genuinely thought he was so hot AND still do…. but actually Aaron is so extremely alluring and #auraful it’s hard for anyone to not want to get to know him LMFAO!!! i was plotting so hard to be his friend and i remember in sophomore year i was practicing for Winter Airband (Fucking hell no God awful) and i was hanging out with this girl Lily. she asked me to visit him at the lunch lines to fuck around and goof and gaf because we got fucking bored of practicing the Airband dances and i thought it was a great opportunity to bother the actual fuck out of him and friend rizz…. needless to say that shit worked because LOOK WHERE WE AT NOW HOE???!!! i got his number and during the conversation at the lunch line we talked about random ass shit like Björk and our beloved mutual friend Aira. i left that conversation feeling like i’ve met quite literally one of the illest people i have ever stumbled upon in my life. he has taught me SO MUCH and i could not be more grateful to call him my friend. #LOML

aaron:

sophomore year, when Kai and i first met, i thought we wouldn’t get along. i remember looking at her old IG feed in 2021 before we had even spoken to each other, and i felt like we lived in two different worlds— like we weren’t meant to cross paths. but, as time went on and i got to know her, i realized how wrong i was. i’m glad i didn’t let my first impressions push her away because spending my high school years with Kai and our friends was something special. over the course of our friendship, she’s taught me so much.

jasmine + jasmine

jasmine:

oh ya 100%, me & my friend have talked ab this too... definitely kismet because she brings it up to me one day and sends me some silly vid saying ‘when the girl i wanted to be friends with so bad finally becomes my friend’... i’m like, “no way.. i used to see her around campus every day and think ‘wow she looks so cool, i wanna be her friend.’” years later, we now hang out all the time she is one of the closest people to me. i go to her about things i can’t tell anyone else & even more kismet both our names are Jas and our friends always tell us we are the same person and that we look the same in terms of style, hair, and everything. so cute. i love my Jasmine.

jasmine:

honestly Jas was that girl i’ve always admired. she has such a cool sense of style and is so fucking pretty. so, when i found out i had a class with her i was so happy. she was someone i wanted to be close friends with but didn’t really think it would happen. (i don’t know why but i think for the most part it’s cause we had two different friend groups and didn’t interact that much) but thank the lords fate brought us together because she’s so cool and funny. i love our Baja Blast runs and our late night conversations parked in front of Taco Bell. i’m so close to her now and it’s so refreshing to get her perspective on things regarding my personal life. we’ve become besties in a short span of time and it’s so corny but i can’t wait to go out with her more and make more memories.

jackie + johanna

jackie:

on the first day of school i had no where to sit, so i sat in the empty chair that was next to her. the first thing i said was “i like your jacket.” she was wearing a velvet jacket. she had this hugeee smile on her face and said, “thank you!” weeks later, we started picking our own lab groups. i don’t remember exactly how i invited her into my group, i just remember asking her. anyways, once she was in, i started liking her vibe, she had a very funny sense of humor, and she was very kind and i really love that in a person. but, i was so shy to ask her to be my friend. luckily for me, in that class we always had lab work to do. so whenever we had work to do, she always ended up working with me and Kassy. i’m grateful that she always ended up with us because when we all were working together, we got along pretty fast, which made me happy because i felt myself getting closer to her and i didn’t even have to ask her to be my friend. it all just happened naturally. 

johanna:

meeting Jackie was by far the most memorable experience during high school. first days are filled with immense nervousness and yet curiosity of what’s to come. in my Forensics class, “i like your jacket,” was all i heard beside me, and i was met with a friendly smile and positive energy. i thanked her and briefly made small talk a little while after. as the first week progressed, the teacher informed of us of mandatory group work—who was to be in our group was up to us. the fear of asking to join a group was nerve wracking to me, but the same friendly smile of before asked me to be apart of her group. before i knew it, i had made two friends gleamed of good nature and a welcoming presence :)