I remember being in grade school and this girl kept giving me things when I didn’t feel like I knew her. She would hang around me in my area with her friend but not really talk to me. Then I would try to get away because it made me uncomfortable. She would find me and be in my area again.
Then when she kept doing this I was like, “well does she want to talk to me or not?” Finally, I decided that I was going to be the one to break the ice. I would share things about myself but they wouldn’t be received well. I would talk about some people that I knew and she would be like, “See. You can talk to her.” In my head, I was like, “I know that but I’m talking to you right now. You that had been following me around and giving me things.” Like I thought she wanted to talk to me but maybe just didn’t know how.