Conversation Train Bound for Painland

I've decided it's high time I tell Bill that I like him. I know that it's going to go nowhere, and the rejection is going to suck, but I'm tired of spending time with him that he thinks is just as friends, and my head says is just as friends, but my stupid emotions are screaming: "YES! THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT!!!"

Also, people out and about always assume we're together, and their comments to that affect are beginning to effect me. Tonight at REI one salesman said to another of us, "When you're finished with him, this couple over here needs your assistance." Technically a truism, but so not accurate it is kind of unpleasant.