Reloaded to camp. Spoke to Gale about his not having friends. He says that he hopes he can count me among friends. I shit you not, these are the only 3 options (paraphrased):
1. I thought we could be more than friends. 2. Tell me what you like about me. 3. You’re more of a necessary means to an end.
I chose the second. Want to be Gale’s friend. But now he thinks there’s something going on.
I took 3 because 2 is a very self-centered thing to ask and a clear invitation for flirting. There literally is no option that just affirms the friendship without implying something more. One starts to question about the writers who wrote this and it's something that's been bothering me for years in the entertainment industry, that apparently there's no such thing as a bromance anymore (or the female counterpart) without it turning into something romantic or sexual. I kid you not, give Lord of the Rings to modern writers and they'd turn either Sam and Frodo or Merry and Pippin into lovers.
I had a fourth option in that conversation combo- along the line of 'I'm not interested in you that way'. Then he asks me , if we could be friends and I said yes.
"We are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one."
