Just friends

"In my opinion, he suits you really well"

Oh yeah? Like something I'd wear? Like a piece of clothing?
And how, if i may be so bold and ask, did you come to such a conclusion?

... was what i wanted to retort.

But no, i didn't say that. She's my friend, and entitled to her opinion.
I shrugged instead, and said "maybe, i dunno, but personally i don't think so."

This hasn't been the first time people try to hook me up with him, even though I've clearly made it obvious to them that it's never gonna happen.

For starters, I'm not the slightest bit attracted to him in that way. And then of course there's the case of him not being attracted to me in that way. We both seem to get it. Why don't others?

Besides, 'He's just a friend', i wanted to add.. except that i realize in the nick of time that that expression in itself could mean different things to different people.

So i held my tongue.

Which, ironically is often misconstrued by my friends as an 'Oh-I'm-so-embarrassed-you-found-out-about-us' kind of silence. =____='

"C'mon, he's single, you're single... what's there to lose?"

Our friendship??

Gosh people, he's (just) a FRIEND!

Again, i try to tell them that.

But so cliche are those words that when spoken out loud, it suggests a meaning totally opposite to what it literally implies. Words that when verbalized is misinterpreted as an attempt to hide something more sinister; something which is, in the distorted world of female frenzy, seen as very gossip-worthy.

And so, I'm left to fend for myself yet again with hand gestures and facial expressions that are less than adequate to describe the kind of friendship he and I share i.e 'the platonic kind'.

This has happened to me before.
With other guy-friends my girl-friends deem compatible for me.

From experience i know that it will be a long winding road ahead.

And at the very dead end of that long long road less taken, they will (finally) realize that there was never anything between he and I.

Almost on cue with this realization is the question they'll ask me with a shrewd smirk and a half-accusing eye:

"Why did you ever mislead us into thinking there was anything there in the first place?"

That's when I'll hang my head down...

... and sigh~~
(there is no pleasing them~)