by Joshli, San Mateo
There was a time not so long ago where I had a group of friends. This particular group of friends happened to be boys. There was a time when I was hanging out with them and my other girlfriend. We were drinking and smoking in this friend group. There was a boy that liked me but I could only see him as a friend.
This boy made it clear to me that he had other feelings for me and would flirt with me and try to get my attention as a typical teenage boy my age would do. I would never tell him anything or put my foot down with him because I didn’t want to make things weird between us. I wanted to keep him as a friend but I would pretty much never entertain him.
So on this particular day, he had gotten under the influence and maybe he had too much to drink. It started getting late and everyone started leaving. We were at his house so I stayed a little because I was under the influence and needed to drive home. He sees this as a great opportunity to try and pull a move on me. I felt uncomfortable and would playfully push him away but because he saw that I wasn’t serious, he proceeded to touch me, thinking I was “playing hard to get”.
Things started to go too far and were going somewhere I did not want to go, so I had to break out and tell him “NO.” He confusedly looked at me and said, “So you don’t like me?” and again, I said “No.” He got really upset and mad, and as I thought it made things really awkward and weird. Regardless, it was pretty important that I did say “no” and set boundaries, because without it who knows how far things could have gone.