Chapter 8 - My first experience with love pt.2

So, I decided to go with the girl I thought I liked, I told my best friend, I'm going to be with her because she's alone, maybe later we can make another group, and she got upset, she got pretty upset because obviously, who wouldn't be upset? Now I understand, since I'm older, only that at that moment I was very young and didn't get it, but who wouldn't be upset if they made you choose between your best friend and a girl you just met? However, I chose the new girl, even though I already knew her and had talked to her, so we made the group, my best friend no longer wanted to talk to me, and honestly, I have never been the kind of guy to beg for attention from women, they would talk to me and I would respond, I have always been polite and a gentleman, I have never been arrogant, rude, or conceited, so because of this argument, I stopped spending time with my best friend and spent much more time with the new girl I liked, at that time it was, for example, not just being with her during recess and in the cafeteria, but also the whole day, talking from the start of school until the end of the day, it became something more intimate. One day she told me, because I don't remember having told her, or maybe my words were misunderstood when I spoke to her one random day, we left school, I was already saying goodbye, and she said to me, hey, but where are we going today? I said, what? as in, what's going on? She said, yes, you told me we'd go out today, and I was surprised because I hadn't said anything, I smiled and thought maybe this is her way of telling me she wants to go out with me, I don't know, women are usually more shy than men, and since I never made the first move, I couldn't think of another explanation, she asked me again, where are you going to take me today? To which I replied, well, I don't think we're going anywhere because I don't remember asking you out, to which she replied that I had said so. In that situation, I suggested, since I didn't have anything planned, that we go for a walk in a park to spend some time and talk. She smiled and said, alright, I know a park nearby, we walked about ten blocks, I think, it was the closest park, we got there and had a good time, we talked a lot, she looked at me a lot and I looked at her, now that I think about it, I think she was quite attracted to me, but I've always been a shy guy, introverted, from the neighborhood because I was born in a dangerous place, but shy, very respectful towards women, the afternoon went by, and we just kept talking and talking, we looked at each other and smiled a lot, time flew, and that happens when there is connection, when there is chemistry, when you have topics to talk about, time passes quickly. It was time to say goodbye, I walked her to her bus stop because she took a bus to her house, she gave me a kiss on the cheek and told me we'd keep in touch. I got home and honestly felt good, I felt excited, I felt something strange in my heart, something I couldn't explain but that I felt, I think that's love, something unexplainable but you feel it, we kept talking after we each got home, I told her, hey, I liked talking with you today, I had a nice time, she told me the same thing, yes, I had a really nice time with you today, we should go out more often. That was my first crush, or that first strange feeling I felt in my heart.