y’all ever flirt with someone who is definitely out of your league?
(this does not seem to you like a self depracating judgement, just a fact.)
you know, for fun, because you know nothing is going to happen.
and then they start flirting back?
and some time later you are quietly reading and drinking coffee with that person in the morning,
unsure how exactly you got there, but feeling happy
having made a cautious decision not to question the way everything worked out
and then you decide to ask them this same question, as an experiment. sotto voce.
and they smile and they say “yeah, well, that’s how I felt about flirting with you.”