This is one of those "no's" that make you forever wonder "what if I said 'yes'?"

When I was 16 there was this friend of mine I had the biggest crush on, she was 17 and her sister 18. I was studying for finals at their house one night, as I was about to graduate from high school along with her older sister, who was my colleague and also a great friend of mine (I got into school a year ahead, while both of them did it one and two years late, because they lived in a rural area far from any school when they were kids and their parents had no ways of getting them to school until they were 8 and 7 years old, and the younger one (who I had a crush on) repeated a grade on elementary). She also had a boyfriend at the time who was 22, and he was kind of a jerk. As I mentioned, I was younger than both of them, and I always thought she was way out of my league. She had had a fight with him two days before, and was studying with us for her finals on the kitchen table.

When me and her sister were done with our chemistry study we decided to call it quits, and proceeded to help her with her grammar studies. After a few minutes we helped her with pretty much everything she still didn't know about, and was now feeling super confident to do well in the test. Then she stayed quiet for a moment while we were packing our things, before suddenly standing up and saying "If I pass this test, I'll kiss each one of you!" Her sister quickly said "I'll pass." and they both immediately turned to me to see my reaction.

I had no time to think about how should I react, because yes, I did want to be kissed by her more than anything, but what, do I just say "ok"? Wasn't she just joking around and I would make a fool out of myself by saying something like that? So by a natural reaction I just shook my head more rapidly than I wanted to (a clear sign of how nervous that situation made me) and then we all just laughed. Her face was red as a tomato, and I'm pretty sure mine was even worse.

She's 24 now and is married to a very nice guy today, with whom she has a 4 year old daughter. Today I'm 23, and after I gained more experience on the dating scene I began to suspect she kinda liked me during our teen years. And to my (not so) surprise, some time ago her sister mentioned she had the biggest crush on me since we were 15 and 14 years old respectively (soon after we got to know each other), and she never approached me about it because she thought I was out of her league, even though I was younger than her.

The world is a weird place when you're a teenager, isn't it?