And yet, there was a part of him that knew it wasn't. That part of him knew it was Alex, the girl he'd been friends with for what had started to seem like a lifetime, ever since she moved in down the road from him in his 7th year. Then, he was 12, she made him nervous, and that was that. Now, he was nearly 19 and nowhere near grown, but she still made him nervous, and that wasn't that anymore.