Maybe you should stop trying that hard

I said it – maybe you should stop trying that hard.

Slowly he poured out everything to me, all the intimate details because he wanted my opinion. He gave her the ultimate hint of all, telling her that he likes her. It was not even a hint or indirect suggestion anymore, he told her and a boy could do just that much. It would be he begging her next.

I see where this is leading; it does not take two souls to figure out that the girl likes him. All the unmistakable signs she has been giving him is driving him crazy. He did not misread the signals, every opinion he asked relayed back the same conclusion. She likes him. She likes him and she likes him.

I pointed out some mistakes he did this time and maybe the outcome would be different if he reversed the sequences of few others. He sighed. He knew probably he screwed it this time. All he can say at the end of the day was it is not fair. It never was at the first place.

Maybe she is not ready. Maybe she is playing hard to get. Maybe she is not sure about her feelings, it is her first time. Maybe her parents suffered from unhappy marriage. Maybe she needed more time. Maybe she is denying her feelings. Maybe she does not know she is into him as well. Maybe she likes someone else. Maybe my friend is just not appealing enough. There has to be a reason. Maybe I am right or maybe I am not but this has to be stopped. I have not seen him like this for a very long time.

Let her go. I told him the one thing he fears most. I am not a firm believer of persistence I added. He has his doubts too. He is an attention craving boy and she might not be the one for him. I knew him too well and he is true this time. He tried to talk himself out of it but he did not want to give up just yet. He wanted to try. He is ready for a fresh start but things are not going his way. He had done his part.

I lost my words. I understand his feelings. He has tried his tricks, my tricks and every trick we could think of. Tricks wonderfully executed on others do not work on her. How could a girl be possibly this difficult to court? It was a mutual attraction; things are suppose to be easy. There come this time that all the boys wish that they could mind read, mind hack or anything that could possibly help them decode the girl they like.

Stop before you go crazy over her, now or you will regret it. It felt like I am telling myself this time. Get over her, sleep over it. The more you do try to get her, the less you are going to give up. I reassure him that at least he still has me. It is not going to help much but I hope it ease his pain a little.

Next time he will pull it through nicely. He is no ordinary guy. I know he will and he has to because he is my hope. He is my mirror.

I used to think that he can get any girl he wants, this girl prove me wrong. This girl is definitely denying her feelings I told myself before the night ends.

How exactly a girl knows that she does not like someone, for sure? Time is running out for that girl. Hints and signs are not going make the cut this time. She has to tell him; either a yes or a no, a true answer from her heart and not just another indirect way of girl trying not to be deemed as a slut.