Of Course Not.

To be honest, I don't feel too much like writing about that boy. After all, he's just a boy, right?

But then again, I'm not one for empty promises.

The thing is just that I'm basically done thinking about that (for the time being) and don't really know what to say about it anymore. You know what I mean? At the time, you needed someone to blurt everything out to, but once that certain period has passed, you tend to just want to ponder on those thoughts quietly.

Here, I'll give it a shot:

Like I mentioned before, this involves a boy. And math. But let's start with the boy.

He's quite idealistic. Smart, funny, cute, and probably one of the nicest boys out there. Any girl would be more than lucky to have him. Mr. Nice Guy seems to fit.

It's not that I like him or anything...just that, he stands out to me. If he's in a room when I walk in, you can bet that I'll have noticed. There is no intense attraction or anything, but he's just one of those boys that I wouldn't mind catching the eye of.

This is where the math comes in.

Mr. Nice Guy is out of my domain.

No, not league. Domain.

Alright, I understand that most people can be a bit rusty when dealing with math, so here's a briefing: Domain is basically all the possibilities that you can plug into an equation that will spit out an answer for you. It includes all the choices that can be taken into consideration.

In this situation, being out of my domain means that Mr. Nice Guy can't even be considered for more-than-friends material.

No. He is not gay.

However, he does happen to be the brother of one of my closest friends.

Just as bad, huh?

Several friends of ours have come up to me telling me how cute we'd be as a couple and asking if I liked him (you know how they say it, with raised eyebrows and a sly smile). My response was that of course I didn't. His sister is one of my really good friends, so it just wouldn't be right.

They also told me that it really seemed as if he liked me. This suggestion, I dismissed even faster. To guys, I'm always "the friend" or their "best bud".

Just yesterday, a close friend of his dragged me away for a quick chat to, once again, ask me if I was interested in him. And, yet again, my replied was no. She then went on to say that she asked him if he liked me. Now, despite my indifference to Mr. Nice Guy, I was still curious about his answer to her question.

She acted this out for me: Ponders. (Ponders! I asked her and she said he actually thought about if for a while.) "Well...I don't think so. I mean, she's basically best friends with my sister."

I didn't realize it until it happened, but that was not the reply I had hoped for.

...

Sheesh, now I've got a situation that I thought I had just gotten over.

This is exactly what I need right now, a boy problem.

Great, just great.