There's Boy

So there's this boy.

Isn't that how these things always start?

And I have this joke with him and my friend. But me and this boy, we've never met. So my friend, who is also his friend, is our go between...kind of. And I really want to eliminate the middle man. But I'm so afraid, what if he thinks it's just a joke.

Do we feel the same way?

Should I try to connect directly with him?

Could it even work?

Could we start as friends?

Or is this going to go badly?

I just don't know what to do.

I really want to get to know him, from him, not someone else. But I'm afraid of rejection.

Aren't we all?