Part V - Fast Friends!

So Sarah and Blake had now formally met and knew that they would be real good friends, especially since they shared the Great Reformed Faith! In the following days, it was truly unplanned and coincidental that Blake and Sarah ended up together for a walk or drive almost every evening. After a while, it became planned. It was something Blake realized both all at once, and in parts, that Sarah was special! He knew at first she was special, so that's why he didn't mind seeing her all the time, but as a few weeks went by, it was a given he would finish class and call Sarah.
There was one evening, very early on, Blake didn't have much time but he wanted to see Sarah, so he told her he would come over just for a real quick walk. It was only once around the quad, but Blake asked about if she had ever liked any boys before. She told him yes, but it always led to disappointment and that she didn't think any boy had ever been fully honest or even interested in her. She said that even when maybe a guy had maybe liked her and she had even let herself get some kinds of feelings... it seemed like in the end the guy would disappear or move on or lose interest. How sad! Blake tried to help her understand the situation with his normal anti-romantic line:

"Boys are entirely self-centered and really think they are doing a girl a service by obsessing over her for a little while."

"Guys can like 8 or 9 different girls--all at the same time! The craziest thing? We convince ourselves that our feelings are completely genuine and not self absorbed at all."

"Romantic love as our culture understands it is Satanic."

"Dating is so unbiblical!"

"I would say that guys are at least if not more sensitive and obsessive about image than girls. You would be so surprised how insecure guys are--to the point they are looking for their value from relationships in ways that people thought only girls did."

"Any guy who would go out with a girl without talking to her dad is pathetic."

..and so on.

Anyway, Sarah seemed to be pretty much on the same wavelength. It was easy to talk about this (later Sarah admitted she didn't know why she would even open up like that because she would never usually do something like that) and Blake for sure felt like he wanted to help Sarah feel accepted and cherished as a friend. And that was the first time Blake and Sarah talked about relationships as friends.