“I was just kind of like shaking in my chair, just like knowing that I had to do it, but so scared of doing it,” he said. It was just the two of them, in the dark - Netflix and bare your soul. “I have to say something, like, I cannot let this movie end and not tell Katya how I feel about her.”
Things finally came to a head one night as they finished watching a Bruce Springsteen documentary on Netflix. But again, this was senior year, and life is short. “There were multiple times of the semester where Katya and I were hanging out one-on-one, and each time I would have, like, the urge to tell her how I felt about her and I stopped myself each time,” he said. They’d hung out for a few years, as close friends, but things were changing now. He was looking over at Katya Shipyatsky, a senior at a different, nearby school. “I remember there were times where we were hanging out just like we’d always hung out since freshman year, and I would look over and I would just think like, ‘Oh my God, I’m like in love with one of my best friends.’” Steve Lehman was a college senior near Philadelphia when he started to realize something wonderful and terrifying.
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