Gabrielle Klein

I recently confessed my crush on a boy and we're friends. We don't talk about it much but he told my friend that he wants to "be friends with me without making her feel bad". I felt really upset for a while, but then I realized that I should try to become better friends with him. We text sometimes, but the conversation drifts off. How can I become better friends with him?

He plays a lot of basketball, and is part of the "cool" group at school. Most of his friends are mean to me and my friends, but he's really nice to me. He's in my homeroom and I always feel hot when he talks to me. It's hard to make conversation, though, because I don't know much about him. I really want him to like me too.

I've been into it since I was little and the obsession never left me. All my friends that I played it with sold their games and have moved on--except me. Only my closest friends know but I'm worried that everyone will find out. My family is okay with this but I still think they wish I hadn't liked it. I can't seem to get this obsession out of my system and I don't want to become a "Poke-nerd"! Is this normal?