Friend love

So i have a guy best friend

We study together, talk about our crushes and our stress and why we cry, let each other eat each others' food, and make fun of each other almost constantly.

But its really hard having a guy best friend because people keep teasing and then you feel the imperative need to put some distance in between so that people have no grounds for their over active imaginations and need for scandal/drama

When i talked to Ollie last year about relationships and stuff he told me that NO GIRLS AND GUYS CAN'T BE BEST FRIENDS someone will fall in love with the other but i completely disagree

When you know someone really well, you know whether he's the kind of person that attracts you that way, or whether he's someone you just really want to hang out with and have there by your side as a friend

There's still so much love but like I've said before love is a many splendoured thing and a supremely varied emotion which doesn't always entail romance

And so i think the world needs to accept friend love for its beauty, constancy and necessity rather than warping it into a shameful love or acting over skeptical about its existence