Hi hfj,

When you described how your young friend acts toward you in your last post, I knew right away that he loves you very much. Want to know how I knew? Because you could have been describing how my "L" would act everytime I was with him when he was the very same age as your YF. He just HAD to give me big hugs all the time and always wanted to be as physically close to me as he possably could. If I sat down on the couch, he would sit down right next to me...and I do mean RIGHT next to me. When we got in my car, he did the same thing. I drove an old beat up rusty 74 Chevy, so the seat belts didn't work anyway, besides if anything were to hit that car, there was enough metal in it to keep us from serious injury anyway (those cars were just beasts back then). He always wanted to do anything I was doing and go wherever I was going, just as long as he could be with me. Because he loved me (and of course I adored him!).

I will never forget the first time he huged me and told me he loved me, it just sent electricity through my whole body. I was sitting at his parent's house, at the dining room table, and he just kept staring at me from across the table. He said,"I don't know why, but I sure do like you!". Then after a while of staring at me with his big, dark eyes, he walked around the table and threw his arms around me and said, "I love you!". It was incredible. After that we were literally inseperable. If you saw "L", you saw me, if you saw me, you saw "L". And he was always wanting big hugs and to sit on my lap and just do anything he could to be close to me. Which I loved so much.

That boy whom you are so infatuated with, loves you. And from the sound of it, he probably adores you. Believe me, you are in for one very, very beautiful time of your life. My only advice is that you keep God in the mix and just enjoy every single moment. Oh, and be sure and treasure these times and keep them safe in your memories, because they are sure to be the very best of times!