There are cliches, there are boundaries, and there's a thin line between friendship and something far greater. It is the tragic truth that when you fall in love with your best friend you don't wish to risk that relationship you share with them. However many times you lose focus on what he says because you get lost in the deep blue-green eyes or when his face get so close to yours it takes every ounce of self control not too lean in and captured his soft lips with your own.
Unfortunately it is proven that when two best friends of the opposite sex are together long enough to see in line between friendship and love fogs over and it is so very difficult to distinguish earnest gestures and behavior as a possibility of them liking you back. Although, your mind immediately races to every negative outcome. Do you hold on to these feelings never letting them show, no matter how much you long for your touch and for him to hold you and never want to let go. Do you want him to date other girls when you always sound slightly broken when they talk about those dates. The when ,what, where, but never the why.
Every time your heart cracks a little more and eventually you know it will shatter and all you hope is that he's not there to see you broken even though he's the only one who can comfort you. Make you feel like no matter how corrupt and vile the world is you will always have him to fall back on. So yes, falling in love with your best friend is awful and miserable but at least you talk to him, hang out with him, and confide in him. That you're not a stranger to him and he to you. Even though there are a bountiful of times you desperately want to risk it and tell him how you feel. I hope that he feels the same.