Stupid Flirtation

InternBill and I flirt incessantly. It's all in good fun. But, sometimes, as I've noted before, I don't know where the "all in good fun" ends and the "no, I'm serious" begins.

Take, for example, the latest.

Thursday morning with not so much as a 'hello' the first thing to pop up in my im window from him was a link to the symphony in his city for a concert from his favorite composer.

The next thing I got was a question, "Want to fly out and go see it? :-)"

I asked if he was buying the tickets. He reassured me that if I buy the plane tickets he'd pick up the symphony tickets! We laughed, then I reciprocated with a link to a concert I want to see out here—one that I know he'd love.

The conversation was then duplicated in reverse.

Out of shear sense of preservation I suggested he ask his current school crush to go with him to the symphony. He said that might be a good idea.

Friday he told me he was thinking of asking her. I told him I thought that was a good idea, but "you're taking her on my date, though. :'("

"You said you couldn't come :("
"But still. <sniffle/> that's my date," I whined.
"No worries. I'll take you out to a concert when I get to Seattle," he promised.

I'm sure he will, the question remains: why are we doing this to each other? It's kind of ridiculous. We both know nothing could ever happen between us, and yet we persist in the flirtation as if we both were looking forward to his return to Seattle—which, I fear, we are too much. Perhaps I should stop talking to him so frequently.