I like this idea, particularly the interplay of being the best friend and having the “inside track” to see the girls who come onto him, to know what he’s looking for, and yet feeling helpless to change the situation. I would have liked more concrete details about what he was like, what appealed to the narrator. And the shift to present tense at the end made me confused about at what point in time, relative to the crush, the story was being told. Overall, nice job.

I have heard this line somewhere before. this made me think of it. “I wasn’t in love with him, I was in love with the idea of being in love”