>>4013834can't exactly say I was rejected, but I had some very close relationships with three separate friends, at three separate points growing up. One of them lasted quite a long time, but we did eventually part ways.
one was my best friend apparently literally since infancy according to my parents. our parents were friends with each other, and they tell stories about putting us in the same crib together. We ended up doing a lot together, which I didn't think anything of at the time but which seems rather intimate in hindsight. sleepovers, bathing together, swimming and getting changed together, cuddling in the same bed together, that sort of thing.
desu I have a suspicion at least one if not both our moms had a bit of a fujo tendency and put us together. Not that I mind, but in hindsight with adult eyes it's easy to see things that way. We ended up drifting apart after going to separate middle schools.
One was a kid in the neighborhood who pulled the classic "let's play doctor" routine on me. We weren't exactly close, but he initiated and was a bit pushy and we ended up playing the game where he'd "do a checkup" on me, I think for weeks, until we were caught by his dad. For some reason I was terrified of being punished by my parents, and told him I couldn't hang out with him anymore, but I was never actually punished and I don't think his dad ever actually ever said anything to my family.
Around the time I was drifting apart with my best friend, or a few years before actually, I met a boy who transferred to my school and we ended up becoming very close in the following years. In fact I think I'd describe times spent with him as the most romantic moments of my life, although idk if he'd see them that way. One of those "this was very meaningful to me" but I'm not sure how he felt, situations. We were never exactly physically close, but we had a lot of long and deep conversations and wonderful times together.
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