Like, love, or just crushed?

In every girl's life, there is a question that always seems to keep coming up: "Who do I like?" "Does anyone like me?" "What'll happen if I don't get married?" It's happened in my life, my mom's life, my sister's life, my best friends' lives, pretty much all girls lives. So, what do you do when you like someone? To tell you the truth, there are so many different answers to this question. Some people would say, "Just tell them" and others would say "Don't be obvious" But what about the question "What do I do when I have a crush on my best friend?" Again the same suggestions apply here, but the true answer is different for each scenario.

For example, my bgf lives 6 hours away from me and we've known each other since June. I know, that's a short time to become bgfs and especially when we live this far away, but for some odd reason we just clicked. We met at a Officer Training and we've seen each other around 4 times since then, but we constantly talk, text, and myspace each other. So, I had a crush on him because he and I clicked so well.

Well, unfortunately, he didn't return the feelings. and during one of our conversations, he brought up a subject that I can't retell except I can tell you it had to do with dating but anyways, I freaked. Like literally freaked and I"m so glad we were texting cuz it would've been bad if we hadn't. So the next day I called him and apologized for freaking cuz our conversations had been wierd. He didn't understand and asked why, so I told him one reason and then asked if that was good enough. Rest of the convo:

He: I want to know the others but I don't need to
Me: Okay, can you wait a little bit?
He: yes, but does it have anything to do with the fact that you like me?

Woah!! I was shocked. Here I thought I was being discrete, but apparantly not. It had been obvious for "awhile" and when he asked that, I tried to play it cool like I didn't:

Me: what would happen if I said yes
He: I would tell you that I like you but not like that. I like you more as a sister you're a great friend, but i don't like you like that.

After that, I totally told the truth and told him about how I did like him but I didn't want to because his relationships don't last long and he's not the best boyfriend, and I was confused because of some signals he sent me and how some of our conversations went. I told him that he was my practically my best friend cuz we talk so much and he's always been there for me and I never brought this up no matter how much I wanted to because I didn't want to lose him as a friend. His response was:

"You really don't want to date me, and you know why. I'm sorry I confused you and I'm sorry that I sent some wrong signals. That was my bad. Thanks for being so honest with me and you're never going to lose me as a friend."

I felt so relieved until I thought about it. How awkward is it going to be when I see him in hopefully 2 weeks? So I asked him "What happens now?" and his response was the best thing I could've heard:

"Nothing happens, we keep going on like we used to. It won't complicate anything."

I felt so relieved cuz I love the relationship we have. I can tell him anything and not worry about him using it to get to me, or backstabbing me. He's one of those true friends that come only once in a lifetime. And even though I probably won't date him, I'm still one hell of a lucky gal to have him as a friend.