My female friend set me up with a loyalty test to see if I would hook up with her or not.

I'm a 24-year-old man, and my friend Jess is a 22-year-old woman. We've known each other for

about three years since we met in class. We've always been platonic, and to be completely

honest, I'm not the kind of guy to go for it. Yesterday, Jess was supposed to move.

I was going to drive my truck over to her place, help her load up her stuff, and get her out of her

apartment. Her situation with her roommate has become highly unstable due to irreconcilable

differences, so she was in a rush to leave. The day before yesterday, as a way of thanking me in advance, Jess ordered pizza for the two of us.

We were sitting there watching a movie on my couch, being platonic friends, as usual, and then

suddenly she inched closer to me.

I figured it was nothing until a minute later she got a little closer.

Then she got a little closer, and all I could do was think about how it was finally happening.

She squeezed up real close next to me and looked up at my face.

I'm not the most confident guy, so all I could say was, hi.

To which she responded,

Hi.

Then she asked if I wanted to do something. I asked what something was and she said,

oh, you know, something. Still trying to keep room for plausible deniability, again, I laughed and said,

I don't know what something was. She kept staring at me and nodding, and I thought, I'll just take my

chances. I asked if I could

kiss her. She immediately stood up, walked to the other end of the room, and sat down on the

armchair. Then she took out her phone. I immediately apologised to her, and she said that I should

just forget it. A few minutes of incredibly awkward silence passed, and then she said,

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