I’m the one who posted about how my best friend has been getting messages from an unknown sender saying that someone loves her but is too scared to tell her. And I’m that person who is too scared. I’ve liked her for a year now. She’s bisexual. I’m lesbian. We’re really close. We’ve talked about dating before, but never did anything about it. She loved someone else, and I loved her enough that she deserved to be happy, whether it was with me or not. It hurt. But now it’s been a year and we’ve developed this unspoken love. We both know it’s there, but neither of us say anything. But we both know the other knows. I want to tell her it’s me so badly. But I just don’t know how. I “helped” her try and figure out who it was that liked her. She doesn’t know it’s me. I need a special way to tell her. I want this moment when I tell her to be big. She was the first person I met who we were both very open about our sexualities when we met. But I just don’t know how to tell her it’s me. That I was the one the whole time.

—LonesomeHawaiiGirl