My brother was like this whenever anybody teases him about his best friend. By the end of fifth grade, they admitted they like each other. However even if he admitted it to her, he still denied that she is his girlfriend. He refused to tell anybody about their current relationship.

This basically sums up my guy friend and I. We're very close friends and I guess seeing how close we are, everyone assumes we're dating, which of course leads to this kind of reaction. Even this troper's friend thought I had a crush on him until I came out and told her who my real crush was. I was relieved when he got a girlfriend because this has pretty much stopped.

This Troper has a male friend she spends quite a bit of time with. Movies, lunch/dinner "dates" etc. but he's never blatantly asked her out, and she refuses to make assumptions. Still, one of her roommates is convinced they're a couple.

Troper: I'm riding with Clark.

Roommate: Wait, which Clark?

T: Clark [last name]

RM: Oh, your boyfriend.

T: (blank stare) Um.. no.

RM: (cheerily) You guys are so cute together.

Somewhat averted for this troper and his Formerly-Not-Girlfriend (long story). We got this a huge amount, and we'd both always reply with a shrug and a "not really".

We decided not to date since it was too obvious a pairing. Then we admitted we had feelings for eachother, and some stuff happened (not that). Then she seemed to change her mind about it. A couple of weeks later, one of her brother's friends asks if we had sex (which we didn't). And I have no clue whether he'd just invoked this trope, or actually somehow knew about the whole thing.

This Troper had this happen with a girl for three years. We were sort-of friends (And ended up being co-captains together) but neither of us had anything, contrary to what EVERYONE else in the grade thought. I only got it ended by deliberately implying it with a different girl. Unfortunately, even my parents joined in on the second one, even if the rest of the grade got too confused to continue either of them.

This Troper has been told multiple times by just about everybody in her year that her and a good male friend would make a good couple. I'm not denying it, (we both agree that if we didn't know each other so well we probably would be dating already), but just the thought of us together is enough to squick me out.

Hm... Are you sure I don't know you? You remind me of my friend and her male BFF.

This happened all the time with my best friend, Rachel, and I while I was still in high school. Everyone we knew(including her family) was waiting for us to start dating. Needless to say, it never happened, and we always had to clarify that we were definitely NOT dating.

This Troper has it constantly assumed that I'm dating a good male friend...made extremely awkward by the fact that I'm also good friends with his girlfriend of two years, and more people think the other guy and I are dating than realize his actual girlfriend and him are going out.

This Troper and his ex-girlfriend had an extremely smooth break-up, and as a result we are still best friends and haven't entirely dropped the habits we picked up while dating. This leads many people assume we're still dating. Even close friends often forget that we're not still dating, which can lead to some pretty awkward situations.

Same with this troper and her ex-boyfriend. It's even weirder because we weren't obvious about our relationship in the first place, so by the time most people found out we dated it was already over. But we were such good friends after, that even a month after the breakup most people didn't know it happened.

Story of This Troper's life, and it nearly got me in a lot of trouble. Said girl was a friend's ex. Also a case of Everyone Can See It, since random students on campus I didn't know even flagged her as my girlfriend. Eventually we just let it fly once we realized that denying it wasn't doing any good. Finding out after she moved away that we did in fact have feelings for each other didn't help.

Same troper, different story. In high school there was a girl that was on Academic Games and Chemistry Olympics with me. The fact that we kind of ignored our Third Wheel and that we sat on a blanket together in the commons for lunch made it worse. Our reasoning for not dating was "We've known each other since we were five, it would be too awkward." Oh, and I took her as my date to an event for the swimmers to take their dates to -- without telling her that she was in fact my date, and then I denied any knowledge of it when she called me on it.

And my sister had one too with a coworker, but they got a Relationship Upgrade and now are official.

This Troper took his fraternal twin sister out to dinner to congratulate us for competing our SAT's and got so many comments/looks about being dating. She is currently dating someone who looks very much like me...

Likewise, because this troper's half-sister looks so much younger than she really is, many assume we're the same age and that we're boyfriend and girlfriend. Yuck.

This troper and his mother were out shopping a few days before he moved into college. The cashier, when ringing us up, asked if we were newlyweds.

Inverted by this troper's sister and her male friend (not her boyfriend), who the cashier assumed to be her son. He's slightly older than she is.

For the longest time whenever my sister and I would fly together, the baggage check clerk without fail would assume we were a married couple. (After all we have the same last name). She found it creepy. I found it hilarious. Now that she's married, she figured that would be the end of that nonsense. She, I, and her husband took a recent flight. Naturally the baggage clerk decided I must be her boyfriend, and that her husband is her brother. My brother-in-law also found it hilarious.

There is a girl this Troper doesn't like at all. Not even as a friend. Everyone thinks we have a crush on each other.

Same happened to this troper in first and third-fifth grade.

Same thing with this troper. Everyone thought me and a girl would be perfect for each other, even to the point of trying to set us up multiple times. And then I started dating her best friend. Awkward.

I have a similar problem right now. Granted I am currently in a committed relationship but it doesn't help that our "arguements" sound like UST induced flirting to a great many people. I think this actually works for the best though as my GF seems to be practically throwing herself at me to keep me from leaving her for this other girl(and trust me I ain't complaining!)

This sounds eerily familiar. I have the same problem with a guy I don't like at all. Let me ask you this...does the saying "Friendship Hug" sound familiar?

This Troper's parents are apparently unable to understand that my best friend is a girl who is not my girlfriend.

This troper has many female friends who he is frequently accused of dating. One of this troper's friend's parents has this misunderstanding about us. I think my mom also has this misunderstanding.

This troper had the same thing happen. I was talking about why my friend's mom likes me (I don't smoke or drink... as far as they know...), and my mom says, "Well those are good qualities in your daughter's boyfriend." "Mom... I'm not her boyfriend..." (UnresolvedSexualTension takes care of that)

This troper had an awkward relationship that kept using both this and LikeBrotherAndSister to explain ourselves. That relationship eventually crumbled. Like, really badly. Uh-huh. I'm over it now, but damn it took me too long.

Oh god. If you are me in the future, tell me, IS IT TOO LATE TO CHANGE THE FUTURE?

This Troper has done this too many times to count with her male friend, including just a few hours ago. I have also been involved in several awkward conversations that start with this. My mother insists that we would be "adorable". My Grandmother told me he was extremely attractive. (It's probably because he's French.) And I hate that it is becoming less unappealing to me as time goes on. And he's asking me out alone more and more, so it looks like we're dating. BUT WE'RE NOT...I think. And, as a visual, we both get flustered and blush when this is brought up, adding a vehement denial and exaggerated disgust. Now that I think about it, it's probably a very frustrating situation for her other friends. Anyway...

This troper is in a relationship that started with this, combined with WillTheyOrWontThey, eventually had a RelationshipUpgrade, and, because this troper will be leaving the country in a few months, started with a foregone BittersweetEnding. Sigh

This troper had this happen when her sister saw her and a guy friend walking to the bus stop together. It doesn't help that right after they both said it she realized that they needed to run or miss their bus. So she grabbed his wrist and started running pulling him after him. Her sister thought they were holding hands. She still refers to his ex as the girl who stole this troper's boyfriend.

This troper has the same story, only she will be moving more like an hour and a half away. But she has problems with maintaining relationships with people who aren't physically with her, so she doesn't know how it will turn out.

This troper as well. The kicker being that my girlfriend is back in Texas while I live in China (long story short: the economic recession). We see each other for 2 weeks out of the year.

in a Les Yay relationship, this troper said goodbye to somebody who WAS her girlfriend, only for the girlfriend in question to be asked by a mother with a baby in the seat behind her once upon her travel of choice 'is that your boyfriend?' this despite many people saying I'd never make a plausable Bifauxnen, looking too girly for words.

This troper and her current best friend are PlatonicLifePartners. However, since they often walk home together and neither are currently in a relationship, people tend to think otherwise. One friend (ironically as he was showing them the engagement ring he was getting his fiancee) once said "You aren't dating? You should be!" In all honesty, this troper would rather shoot herself in the foot than date her friend, since, as much as she loves him as a friend (and you'll never hear that from her offline), she doesn't see him as more than that and doesn't care to.

This Troper is 13, and has a close male friend who's 2 years younger (do the math). I suspect him having ADHD - he is very hyper and tends to annoy my classmates. A lot. I started dragging him away from fights with older girls and they started calling him my boyfriend. This becomes really annoying as we both are too young to date.

Are you a younger version of me from the past??? Me and my friend are 19 and 22 and we act a lot like this. I used to fancy him, but now i think of him as like my brother.

I think that boy is a younger version of me from the past (I'm 13). Wait... OMFG TIME TRAVEL!!

This Troper had NEVER had this happen until recently, when my health teacher spread a rumor throughout the school that i was with a girl who I had never met before this school year and...ugh!! Not to mention that I HAVE a crush on another girl who is in the same class and I have no idea of what she thinks of me on that level and am too afraid to ask. What's even worse is that, as a way-too-short blond kid, I get enough pseudocrushes on me already, it just makes my life worse.

Now you know how Ed would feel if he were to be aware of his many fangirls.

Why would your teacher ''do that''?

Running with the way-too-short-blond-kid hypothesis, clearly his teacher is Maes Hughes on our side of the gate.

If I have to explain to ''one more person'' that my best friend is ''not'' my boyfriend... (Not that I don't enjoy the idea, but...)

This troper has had some rather unique bouts with this since he blatantly admits to crushing on his female friends.

1) This troper and a college classmate visited a friend at the gym. After 10 minutes friend asks if we're dating, to which both our jaws drop. But a month later, we were.

2) This troper's best friend's girlfriend was once mistaken for being ''his'' (this troper's) girlfriend.

3) This troper's girlfriend's best friend was mistaken for ''his''girlfriend. Twice.

This troper has a hard time getting the point across that his two best friends are both girls, and NEITHER OF THEM ARE HIS GIRLFRIEND. (There's a very easy reason for this: he's gay. But he can't exactly tout that to take care of it in every case...)

Same thing happens with my, and one of my best friend's, gay friend. In fact, the only reason I can say the above troper's not him, is because he can't speak English to save his life.

Happened during a class barbeque, this troper was asked where her boyfriend was only to say "what boyfriend?", the person didn't say who they were referring though, but there's an obvious suspect.

This troper has never actually been involved with this trope, but has witnessed it first-hand. It started with my sister making a "joke"--via ''text message''--to one of her male friends that she was going out with another guy they both knew. A few other people got in on the joke, including the guy in question, and now...she swears that the contents of that text message are still a lie. No one believes her.

Update: She's stopped denying it, which pretty much confirms this as having been an example of this trope in action.

Holy shit ''yes''. Two;

There's this chick I walk home with who I walk home with every day and have over at my house every now and then. I have no sexual attraction whatsoever, but I am very frequently accused of leading her on (and I'm slightly scared of her now)

Okay, there's this chick I've been friends with that I used to barely talk to, but at the start of last year we started having a few classes together and I decided to hit on her. It was either the best or worst thing I ever did; she didn't like me so I decided to stop, then we started becoming friends, then she went out with this guy I went to primary school with, then we started talking about masturbation on a regular basis, then I found out she wanted to have sex with me along with like five other guys just as she started going out with this other guy, then she dumped him, then we had cybersex, then she started inviting me to heaps of stuff, and just like two days ago she invited me to the movies the other day, and I'm going to her house next week and I think she likes me now! I don't care how obvious the answer is, ''please'' someone tell me what to do! I'm not sure anymore! D=

Opportunity. It could be your only one.

Why doesn't anyone get the concept of JustFriends?!? It doesn't help that everyone is like "oh you're both so tall and blonde! You'd look so cute together!" gag, gag.

The other day, one of this troper's friends asked if he ever got a blowjob from a good friend of his. He told them he didn't, but between all of you and him, he wishes this would happen someday. For good reason.

This troper has a male friend that she hangs out with quite often. Once on a trip, we were asked "Are you two dating?" Both of us responded with a resounding "NO." Almost nobody believed us. To make matters worse, this troper's cousins are constantly calling him her "not boyfriend" and smirking secretively.

This troper was going to the movies with a guy friend of hers...and people kept referring to him as her boyfriend. One particularly bad offender called me later that day and I answered the phone with "HE IS NOT MY BOYFRIEND."

This troper is more comfortable talking to guys than girls, and she talks to a couple of guys in particular on a regular basis during classes. Well, a couple of the girls that she knows are absolutely convinced that we're dating. For this troper, this is somewhat amusing, as she is a half-closeted lesbian.

This troper went to a fundraiser banquet for the high school he graduated from 3 years ago, and one of his (female) friends was working there. Said friend kinda hit on him every now and then, leading the elderly lady sitting next to him to ask her if he was her boyfriend. Said friend wasn't too bugged about being asked that though. This troper wouldn't have minded the accusation so much if it were not for the fact that his friend is 17 and he's 20.

This Troper has a lovely little Unresolved Sexual Tension and Will They or Won't They. Guy is very shy and if anyone points out the fact that he's been non-stop flirting with me for two and a half years(in a thinly disguised Love/Hate manner), he flips out and claims I am the one flirting with him and refuses to talk to me for awhile to get the suspicion off of him. Being equally unwilling to admit it, "He is not my boyfriend!" could be my catchphrase and vice versa. It doesn't help that half the teachers ask us daily if we're dating when we walk to class together, and that if I so much as say hi to him the entire girl's swim team rushes over to see what happens(the Captain is the worst. She actually attempts to play Cupid). Also, his sister thinks I'm stalking him.

This Troper hangs out with his sister often, and we resemble each other enough to assume people know. Worse, we both have the inconsiderate habit of failing to introduce the other, so some assume that we're each others' dates for the night. She's the best wingman I've ever had.

For some reason, EVERY time this troper hangs out with a girl, he gets this. It's happened in five separate states and seven separate schools. Of course, it doesn't help that roughly 3/4 of his close lady-friends DO, in the end, turn out to have SOME thoughts along those lines after all. As he is uninterested in women, this is not as great as it might sound. Also tends to get a lot of "are you gay" or, after he has denied it often enough, "what are you, into animals?". Every. Time. That train's never late.

This troper is totally finished with this. Her male best friend is not her boyfriend. Yes, the two of us look similar, but he isn't her brother either. ARGH!

This troper has a very similar situation, with added Double Entendre, since the male best friend is a highly skilled gymnast. Cue a huge avalanche of "well, we know why you go out with ''him''..."

This Tropette has this guy friend. She considers him a very good friend. and then this happened. #QUOTE# Random Friend: Hey, are you two dating? #QUOTE# Me: NO! #QUOTE# Him (at the same time): Yes. #QUOTE# Me: OhCrap #QUOTE# Him: (heart-broken look)

Stupid love, messing up my friendships!

This troper is routinely considered a couple with one of his friends (who is, coincidentally, REALLY HOT...and rather *ahem* flirtatious), to the point of threatening physical violence if everyone in the pool didn't shut up and stop giving me boners.

Happened with this troper right at the start of his first day on his current school. He tagged along with his friend (who pretty much was the only person he knew at that point) and a veteran asked them if they were dating. And she asked it so suddenly it was actually funny.

This troper experienced this three times in one day. It started with "Are you two going out?" (Me and girl #1), then in another class someone else asked the same question about me and her. Then later on in that same class the first person asked "Are you two f*** buddies?" (Me and girl #2). What, can't guys be friends with girls without going out with them or having sex with them?

Keeps happening with two teenagers in this troper's church. Troper feels vastly sorry for them, particularly the girl, who would probably like it to be true.

This troper found her lab group telling her "Oh, I know your boyfriend!" about her best male friend, leading to lots of protesting otherwise. Since they began dating six months later, perhaps the lab group was psychic...

This troper has been asked a few times if her friend was her girlfriend since they hung out all of the time. Not that this troper doesn't have a crush on her friend but the friend is pretty straight.

Throughout high school, this troper and her male friend (who apparently resembled each other, even according to her mother) went through the following exchange with depressing frequency: -> Them: Are you two related? -> Us: No. -> Them: Oh. Are you dating? -> Us: *headdesk*

This troper always wanted to say yes to one question to see if they'd still ask the other.

That's... disturbing, yet kinda funny.

This troper had a particularly heart breaking example last semester. A friend of mine in a class was quite flirty with me, and we spent a good portion of the beginning of the semester flirting with no end in sight, both physically and verbally. Someone suggested we date, and I was like "yeah, why aren' we dating, we might as well be"... and her rationale as to why was that I was 5 years her junior, and that she has a sister my age. So I try real hard to convince her to go out with me, and just as it seems she's about to crack, she's dating some other dude. I don't think I've recovered from that one.

This Troper's sister's best friend spends a lot of time hanging out with us. Said best friend is relatively attractive, and I'd be lying if I said she didn't give me conflicting feelings, but we have never gone out and likely never will. People, inevitably, think we are.

A running gag at my school after I got excited because I got a girl's phone number. Which I appear to have lost. Damn.

This tropette has fond memories of her primary school, in which we would ship members of the class together. If the teacher decided to put a boy and a girl at the same table, this trope would quickly ensue.

This troper and one of her best friends (who happens to be a male) were both sick and wanted a quiet place to hang out while they waited for an award ceremony (scores were being tallied). When the ceremony was about to begin, a volunteer at the competition was walking down the hall they had retreated to, yelling for any of the competitors. They were the only two people down there, and they were like three feet away from each other, just talking. The volunteer started flipping out and going, "Oh my God, I'm so sorry! I didn't realize-- Oh my God, I'm so sorry--" This troper's friend said, "We're not together, don't worry," as this troper was stifling laughter.

This troper is an unusual case - for the first year and a half of high school, I was regarded as something of a man-hater, and rumors of lesbianism abounded. (I am straight, by the way.) At around December of my sophmore year, I began making a few male friends. Ever since, any guy I talk to, look at, or am in the same room as becomes my "crush", according to my friends. Odd.

No, really she isn't. She's my sister. I'm not allowed to go with my sister to the movies anymore I guess.

My parents keep insisting that I have a crush on my female friend and that she's my future wife. They don't realize that I'm queerer than a three-dollar bill.

This troper both subverted this trope and played it straight- she and her male friend were thought to be dating, to the point where people whould refer to him as "your boyfriend" to me and me as "your girlfriend" to him. However, we were LikeBrotherAndSister... except I was the UnluckyChildhoodFriend. Subverted when I told him how I felt... and he felt the same! We're still dating.

Another classic double, definitely played straight with the second one... There's a girl I've known since we were both about six. We've both always had a reputation as... academic high-fliers, we share a birthday, and our dads both worked for the same company until quite recently. Naturally, a load of people thought we'd be perfect together. Equally naturally, we're closer to VitriolicBestBuds. More recently (like, just over a month ago), I met a fellow nerd (female, unlike me...); phone numbers were exchanged, and I promptly ran out of credit due to at-length discussions of... well, anything. For a week, I was quoting this trope a few times a day (and kinda hoping something'd happen, but lacking the courage to do anything about it). After a week... Ding! RelationshipUpgrade! The best part is that I introduced her to Troping, so I can now make jokes about LevelUpAtIntimacy5 or whatever. The downside? She might read this...

This troper has some female friends, many of them are quite close. He doesn't anymore count the times one of them was mistaken to be his girlfriend.

This troper gets this quite a lot, considering 80% of his friends are straight females. This troper is bisexual and so also gets this from people who know his sexuality but not him as a person and as such gets paired with straight females, lesbians, gay guys, and, on one occasion, a straight male. Ugh!

This troper was at a local fair at the tail end of the night. A guy friend called for her to wait a minute, and she went over to see what was up. It turned out he really only wanted to say bye, but he had to close up his booth. The guy orchestrating the closing of the canopy asked him to tell his girlfriend to hold the sign. I, trying to be {{Genre Savy}} explained calmly that we weren't going out. My friend though did exclaim "She's not my girlfriend."

This troper's prom date tried to convince people she wasn't my prom date. Obviously, nobody believed her, including me.

This troper's daughter, when in collage, had a summer job in the lab where I worked. We would often have lunch together in the cafeteria. One day a guy I knew asked who "the chick" was. He got very angry when I told him she was my daughter (I looked rather young in those days) and I had to show him my id to prove my age!

This troper gets this pretty much every single time she goes anywhere with her best male friend. At one point, we considered bringing along a sign that says "NOT DATING" in big bold letters, but then we figured that it would just encourage everyone more.

Many of the elderly seem to have some sort of... issue, the symptoms of which are confusing this troper and his ''mom'' for a ''couple.'' Squick? Very much so.

I feel your pain. I was eating dinner with my mom at a restaurant, and, according to Mom, when I went to the bathroom, another patron complimented her on her handsome boyfriend. Incidentally, I was dressed in full pirate regalia at the time. Long story...

This had happened to This Troper twice back in her school days, much to her amusement. Each when she was roaming around and being generally affectionate with one of her two best friends. Apparently my schoolmates seem to think that I'm a very sexy guy in my downtime.

This Troper has a straight example: His best friend was a girl who moved away a few years back. She comes to visit every so often (her grandmother still lives near me), and when she does, I have to constantly say this. The Troper also has a strange example, where the girls at his church mistook his cousin from California as his girlfriend.

{{Smerf}}: I really wish people actually knew this back in highschool. Terminally shy, but I found out years later that a number of girls liked, but always thought I was dating one of my friends. Damn it!

Dude, college is WORSE! This troper learned that several females refused to talk to him because he was dating no less than 9 different women simultaneously. Of those 9, he only ''knew'' 2! WTF?!

This troper had an odd case at an amusement park last week with one of his friends; a "He Is Not My Boyfriend." I'm a guy. He's dating cheerleaders. And something tells me I'm straight. But the sheer amount of people who had the idea...

When I was with my latest girlfriend, everyone at school seemed to think that there was a giant 4 way relationship between her, my two best [ female ] friends, and I. Most confounding of all, I get the impression that they all thought that I was doing this without letting any of the girls know about each other! My school is full of idiots //_>

Not just your school, my friend.

This (male) troper just got back from attending a conference with a good (female) friend, and in the first day, a dozen people asked or assumed we were a couple. But it gets better. She hooked up with another girl and we were all seen to have breakfast together, and from that point, people started assuming we were a romantic threesome.

Comedic twist: This troper once explained, in perfect truth, that no -- the guy hanging out with her all through the church's Vacation Bible School is, in fact, not her boyfriend. (He's her husband.)

This lesbian troper has an extremely close straight female friend, and has said these words more times than she can count. Turning straight girls isn't something I can do!

This troper had the good fortune/misfortune of hanging out with three other women. As we go club-hopping, every time we step into a new place, a group of guys starts eyeballing all of them and then giving me the slightly hostile glare, apparently trying to figure out "which of them is mine" so that they can go for the other two. I could've saved them the trouble if they'd asked, none of them were my girlfriend.

This troper absolutely lives this trope. I have.. one female good friend whom had an entire friend group attempting to ship us together. She had a crush on me for a couple years, but still. My Female best friend I've had a weird "We only like each other when the other doesn't" thing going on, so while we've never gotten involved everyone, especially her family, tended to presume there was love between us. Thankfully this has died down now that she's found a boyfriend (even if he is like a lamer copy of me :P) and I'm in my own relationship. Oh, and this past year I was presumed dating another girl on the floor. Eventually we did do the whole "friends with benefits" thing but this started months before that.

This lesbian troper has a very close straight female friend. Even our mothers think we're a couple.

This troper has a guy friend at school with whom she talks with while passing in the hallway (because we have no classes together this year). One day in particular on my way to gymnastics class he came up to me and we started to talk about how our weekends went. After we said our goodbyes, this troper's friend from gymnastics came up and started asking if that was my boyfriend and then went on to say that we looked so cute together and our "kids would be sooo cute". My sister is also very guilty of doing this to me.

I was unfortunate enough for a girl to sit next to me on the bus. I don't speak with girls much, even though I like about three. A friend of mine then pops in from the seat in front of us and says: ->Friend: Hey, [name]! Why are you sitting with your girl friend? ->Me: ...I don't know. (This troper says that when faced with adversity or a question he can't come up with a witty answer for.) ->Friend: AH! HE SAID I DON'T KNOW! ->Me: *silent {{Precision F Strike}}* .

It's kind of ironically funny and cruel that I like her sister.

This Troper has two.

There was this girl that I was/am close to (it's complicated) that I knew in high school, and from her perspective we were LikeBrotherAndSister personified. Not a single one of my friends believed it, and we got asked over and over again if we were dating. I, on the other hand, was very attracted to her, and everyone knew it. Classic SheIsNotMyGirlfriend material. Eventually I grew some balls and told the girl I liked her, only to be told that she didn't feel the same way. Almost a TearJerker, but I don't mind; I moped around for a little while, but I'm a better man for it.

A couple of years later (also in high school) there was this girl I absolutely hated, and feeling was mutual. She was as smart as I am, as hardheaded as I am, and a dedicated Communist who took every opportunity she could to insult me, whereas I am a nice guy who is often a real jerk and a lifetime Capitalist. For a while, we cohabited but made our mutual antagonism known to ourselves and to everyone around us. Again, not a single one of my friends believed it. But eventually, our hostilities cooled. We hung out, we talked, and fought every once in a while, spend more and more time alone. She even managed to talk me into promising to take her to prom, before she moved. As it turned out, even while we hated each other, we had liked each other the entire time and knew it, and we never told the other person. She recently came back to visit for a while after she moved elsewhere. She and I kissed when we saw each other again. And now we're dating. I even kept my promise to take her to prom.

Dear GOD in heaven, you lucky !@#$!@. So not only did you EarnYourHappyEnding, you created a story that screams "make into a movie". It's the kind of story that people pay writers millions to write, and you lived it for FREE!

This troper has a very close guy friend (he's basically my oldest friend) and people have asked us if we were dating. We don't say "He/She's not my boyfriend/girlfriend" but we say stuff like, "No. We're JustFriends." that denies it. Thankfully, nobody had asked if we were dating each other lately since both of us are in our own relationships with different people.

This troper's best friend relates that his neighbor inquired after his wife. Only after much discussion did he realize that his neighbor was talking about me and not his mother. Cue this trope. Sadly, while he is JustFriends with me, I happen to actually like him like him.

This troper used to reflexively respond this whenever anyone referred to a certain guy as her boyfriend. Subverted by the fact that he actually was.

This troper's best friend is male and yet they spend a disproportionate amount of time teasing each other about having crushes on friends of the opposite gender. Made more hilarious by the fact that most of the school and this troper's mom are convinced that they are dating.

This troper keeps telling his lesbian friend that I and '''her''' girlfriend need t-shirts. Mine would say "She's not my girlfriend" hers would say "She's mine". Haven't done it yet though, but it's becoming irritating enough to try.

In a ToyShip version of this trope, this troper's only friends in 4th and 6th grades were boys. Needless to say, this (female) troper got teased A LOT about it, especially having not hit that stage of puberty yet. Now, in ''seventh'' grade, the shipped-with-me guy of the year wasn't my boyfriend, or even my friend, but that's not to say I didn't ''want'' him to be....

This troper had funny story regarding this.She and her friend who just had her haircut,and looked quite boish with it,were mistaken for couple by drunken guy,and they had hard time convincing him wrong.It was funny as hell

This troper has a friend with whom she has a completely nonsensical relationship. It essentially started out as a very awkward, very intense friendship. I then developed feelings for him. I then expressed said feelings, which were not requited. We are still extremely intense friends. So, at this point, everyone we know either assumes that we are dating, or knows specifically that we are not due to the aforementioned scenario. It doesn't help that upon meeting me, his mother confronted him about whether we were 'more than friends.' Ironically, my own mother suspects the same thing about a completely different friend, with whom I am entirely platonic.

This is made funnier by the fact that I actually am now dating the platonic friend mentioned in the last sentence, after almost everyone we know shipping us relentlessly, so I guess my mother was right.

When ThisTroper's mother, who was in her late forties at the time, wanted to start a garden in our backyard, she asked her close friend of twenty years, in her late sixties, to help her pick out plants at the local garden nursery. I guess it was the way the two were interacting, with my mother's friend using the pronoun "we", but the whole store assumed that they were a lesbian couple, and thinking that my mother was around the same age as her friend, they gave her a senior's discount. To this day, whenever my mother goes to the nursery to replace plants (she kills a lot of them unfortunately), they ask about her "partner", but my mother never attempts to correct them because it gets her the senior's discount.

One of my friends at my school was a girl. She was a FRIEND. Oh, how I ''wanted'' it to be more than that, but it still bugged me when people assume. Of course, now when people ask...

I (a girl) had a relationship with a boy that mixed this with WillTheyOrWontThey and then had a RelationshipUpgrade - before we both realized that actually, we didn't so much not swing that way as we swing right past each other. We have been happily PlatonicLifePartners ever since, but still get mistaken for dating by complete strangers. A recent trip to [=McDonald's=] saw the local drunk tell him to "take care of your girlfriend".

This troper had to explain for 2-3 years to various people that a very close female friend of his was not his girlfriend. Then, things changed, and basically everyone knew they were dating almost instantaneously. It lasted a year and a month. After the break-up, said troper then had to deal with obnoxious people asking what happened and why they weren't getting back together again. The general high level of interest before, during, and after can be attributed to the fact that the girl was one of the most hated in the grade (for no good reason!)...

This troper has had to say this CONSTANTLY, with both of them going to a new school and only having been there for 3 months, with the accusations starting since September, of all things. Throw in this (a much milder version than media, of course) along with this, then add in a whole school full of these people, and you've just about summed it all up.

This troper's mother has twice thought that she had a crush on someone in her D&D club. This is despite the fact that this troper openly DoesNotLikeMen and is contemplating when to come out as a lesbian. She's fairly certain that both guys had or have crushes on her. Even one of their classmates tried to be a ShipperOnDeck. -> Me and friend: (argument full of technobabble) -> Classmate: You know, you two are like, ''perfect'' for each other. -> Friend: I take offense at that suggestion. -> Me: I take a LOT of offense at that suggestion!

This troper and his ex had this going for them a lot during middle school. We were seen a lot together, and people would periodically walk up to us and ask "Hey, are you two going out?" to which the response would always be "No!".

This troper was practically interrogated as to whether she was dating a certain guy friend due to a few mild NotWhatItLooksLike situations; being so marvelously subtle, she responded with "No, he has a girlfriend." When asked if she wanted to be, she fervently denied it.

This troper and her twin brother are often mistaken for a couple, despite this troper being married.

This troper is pretty much a ship target at work, though one example still comes up occasionally, and still hurts. There was one coworker I got along well with because we had a lot of common interests and shared a lot of personality quirks, which for where I work and the area which I live, is extremely rare. Neither of us were overly social, so in some situations we gravitated towards each other and became very close. Naturally, everybody was either asking me whether we were going out, or they knew we weren't and were trying to hint that we should. The catch? I actually had developed feelings for her and asked her out long before anyone said anything, but was turned down gently and relegated to the "brother I never had" label. I've since gotten over it mostly, and she's still one of my best friends, but whenever someone asks me if we still talk since she's moved on to a better job, I remember asking her out, and it hurts a little. Since then, a few of the more gossipy coworkers have been applying this same treatment to any woman I talk to for more than five or six minutes at a time on a daily basis, never seeming to know that with any woman I talk to on a regular basis, the subject usually comes up and I find that she's either taken or just not interested, and I don't want to think about it and have that hanging over my head too much. I just suck, I guess.

This troper seems to have people thinking that the woman he's with ''is'' his girlfriend for some unknown reason.

Every time this troper's hug-loving friend calls(which is often), his mother says "It's your girlfriend." Cue massive amounts of denial.

This troper gets along with girls much better than boys, so he's always hanging around them. Due to the inevitably immature and fairly dumb world of high school and middle school politics and romance, he's always assumed to be dating whichever girl he's seen with most often. He's also quite proud to state, whenever this occurs, that his girlfriend actually goes to another school. They're often quite dumbfounded when he says this, as they have to admit that the kid actually DOES have a girl.

The Troper had this in fourth and fifth grade...

Two of my closest friends are girls, so in my school, this always happens to me whenever I'm hanging out with them. Unfortunately, I've liked both of them at different periods in life, but failure with relationships is my only option, being asked this would always make me wish it were true, and leave me depressed as a result.

This troper has always gotten along well with both genders, and has always had friends in both. However, his closest friends in one social setting were all girls, and he was always shipped with one or another of them, or with one of the female friends they would meet in the other social setting. It did not help when there was a RelationshipUpgrade for several months with one of these friends. Of course, this was when he, and said upgrade, weren't being MistakenForGay.

This troper has a crush on a boy, and EveryoneCanSeeIt, except maybe him. Whenever anybody sees us together and asks whether we're dating, he always vehemently replies with a loud SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!!!! I'm still waiting for a chance to tell him...

This. troper. She's in a slightly Les Yay friendship with someone who's actually a lesbian... yes, this troper is female. Our history teacher thought we were dating. And don't even get me started on my parents...

This troper is such a Tsundere, occasionally trading insults with a certain boy she secretly likes, with plenty of BelligerentSexualTension between us. However, we always respond to inquires about our relationship with a She/He's not my Girl/Boyfriend. In unison. No wonder we are shipped so hard by our classmates. This troper sometimes wishes it was true though...

I look much more mature than what I really am (not older, just more mature) and my mother looks younger than what she actually is. Yeah

I get along better with girls than I do with guys, to the extent that I had trouble thinking of guys to invite to a party. As a result, I am often seen with one friend or another, and have had others assume that the two of us are dating, sometimes by OTHER friends to which this trope has been applied! One guy basically introduced himself to me by confiding that he and his girlfriend had been speculating as to whether or not me and a friend were dating; our lack of physical contact led them to deduce that we were actually siblings, due to the huge amount of time we spent together. But my best friend in university has her entire family thinking that the two of us are in love, despite objections from both of us. The fact that I spent New Years with her family and danced with her did not help matters in the slightest. We spent part of that night lamenting this perceived relationship, which can get very annoying.

This troper has a weird case: he can make a huge list of "girls people thought I had a crush on", most of them old classmates - most insistent of those being my best friend, a nerd that in no case I would consider attractive (which is why "you were in love in her" is practically "hit me as hard as you can" to my ears); and another which I possibly ''had'' a crush on (but is currently studying too far from me). The latest two on the list are freshies, one of each class, and "most frequent guess" among their respective classmates.

This troper has lived with this trope since 4th grade, with 3 different guys. The first one, was a real JustFriends case. The second, I ended up as a UnluckyChildhoodFriend. With the last one, we had a RelationshipUpgrade. Still, 6 years of this trope made this troper hate it.

In my class, I used to have a female friend with whom I was pretty much VitriolicBestBuds. Sadly, the entire class assumed we had a crush on each other. It was made even worse when she got an anonymous rose on Valentine's Day - everyone, except the girl herself, assumed it was me, no matter how often I kept on saying that I hadn't sent any roses whatsoever. You know what was worse? Next year, she got another rose, again anonymous. Guess whom everyone thought it was? Yours truly. Since then, I absolutely hate this trope.

This troper and her close friend has been mistaken as a couple. It would have made sense, if not for this troper being a fourteen-year-old and her friend an energetic, young-looking thirty-eight-year-old. But before squick can be achieved, this troper's friend quickly explained to the offender that "She is not my girlfriend. She is my sister." *headdesk*

This (female) Troper and her female friend were once asked if we were a couple. Now, I guess we are kind of touchy feely with each other, and since we've known each other since age eleven (we're 19 now) we sometimes finish each other's sentences and stuff like that. The thought about it still freaks me out, though.

This troper and her best guy friend got this constantly, causing us to loudly protest that WE WEREN'T DATING... until we were.

As this troper was graduating from college, he started to become better friends with a girl who was a sophomore. They knew each other through a club, but didn't really start hanging out until his last week of college, after which they started chatting online frequently. Their relationship consisted of sarcastic banter, except for when she was stressed or in a bad mood, in which case he would heap on the compliments, as he is prone to do. After a while, though, he started to get worried that he might be leading her on. He was planning to visit his old campus, and when he told her this, she was extremely excited. He was looking forward to hanging out with her, but was nervous she'd get the wrong idea. As soon as they started hanging out, they fell into their typical banter and mock-insults. When someone else asked "So, are you guys dating or something?", she reacted in horror, shouting "Ew! No!" She then caught herself and apologized for acting like dating this troper was such a hideous notion, but truth be told, this troper was QUITE relieved!

This troper has dealt with at least 3 consecutive/overlapping cases of this since he was 13 ¬_¬:

Firstly a girl who this troper had been friends with for about two years, we started getting this from everybody who saw us together even though she was 3 years older (a significant difference at that age) and had a long-term boyfriend. Made especially annoying as it coincided with us realising that we were actually interested in each other, but couldn't do anything about it for obvious reasons.

That went away after a few months in exchange for comments (the jokes remain to this day and are likely to remain untill this troper gets a new set of friends) about me and my female best friend. Similarly not helped by (unknown to the jokers) the fact that this troper had fallen in love with her, around the same time that she gave up on liking me because of my situation with the first.

A year and a half later, this starts becoming less of a problem with the second girl, but of course it jumps onto somebody new, who this troper also develops feelings for.

You'd think this would go away now that this troper has a completely seperate girlfriend, but the problem persists with the last two girls (including the new girlfriend thinking something is going on). This trope is my life apparently.

This troper's best friend is female. Anytime we banter with each other, this trope gets invoked, and it looks like BelligerentSexualTension to casual observers, with me being the {{Tsundere}}. She (hopefully) has accepted that we're JustFriends. For now.

Worse still, this troper hangs out with his female cousin practically every weekend. Here's the problem.

She's 4 years older.

She looks 4 years younger than she is.

We're close friends too.

Unsurprisingly, I avoid any friends when we hang out because any punches/facepalms/PrecisionFStrike sounds like a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. And then, we have some snarking friends who accept that SheIsNotMyGirlfriend. We're just FriendsWithBenefits, according to them.

This troper has a friend who has this problem a lot because she hangs out with this dude all the time. It's so bad, I tell her he's her boyfriend just to piss her off.

This troper and an old friend have this SO bad. When she was going out with someone, people would assume I was him. Now she's single, everyone assumes we're dating. I could not be less romantically interested in this girl, but the universe doesn't care. There was a visit from some STI info people at my college, and they not only assumed that we were together, but made several jokes about me giving her chlamydia. For everyone else in the room, this was just confirming the idea we were dating. That said, this assumption actually meant that I was wrong for being the butt of several other, dramatically more embarrassing jokes, so it worked out okay.

This Troper does this a lot due to a high percentage of close female friends, but the funniest was probably this exchange: #QUOTE# '''Friend:''' Hey, who was that girl you brought last night? Is she your girlfriend? #QUOTE# '''Me:''' Nah, we're just friends. #QUOTE# '''Friend:''' Oh, ''sure,'' just friends. I saw how you were dancing together - #QUOTE# '''Me:''' She's ''gay.'' #QUOTE# ''Friend:''' {{Beat}} OH! {{Beat}} Well I guess you are just friends, then!

There was a month where people were seriously thinking that this troper and his best friend were a couple. What makes things worse is that no one had the guts to ask if it was the case to neither of us, but only asked our friends. Even when we were both sitting there. And we could hear the question perfectly.

This troper is apparently walking ship bait, because he has this sort of thing constantly. A girl at my college has (against my wishes) ''planned my weddings'' for ''three separate girls'' before finally throwing her hands up and letting me be. Not that I don't love those girls dearly, but uh, my tastes run more towards the rough touch. It's odder when you realize the above mentioned shipper knew my preferences but just thought I "hadn't found the right girl yet." It doesn't hurt that my girlfriends and I act like {{Tsundere}} to each other at every possible opportunity. For example, one semester I took the same class as one of my girlfriends, and we sat next to each other every day, shared our drinks, and were always debating X topic very vocally with each other. The entire class was apparently convinced we were an item (unbeknownst to us), because the one day we ended our debate with an emphatic "Fine" the response from the peanut gallery was an audibly concerned, "Oh no, trouble in paradise."

I have five girls who are my friends. Oddly enough, this trope has never been envoked for him...

This Troper went through three years of "Is sie your boifriend?" and answering to the negative. Of course, this ended up an example of Everyone Can See It...

Happens to this troper a lot with her male friends. Is sick of answering.

This Troper expierienced it with his ex, as for nearly 5 months after they broke up, people were asking if we were still together, leading to irritation as she is now dating one of his close friends, and everyone thought she was cheating on him. This happens now with another one of his friends (who's friends with his ex), who he took to Junior prom, though we are just really close friends. Add this to the fact that I am gravitating more towards their social group and away from my own (slightly), this will inevitably lead to jokes about me being a pimp. (To put this in perspective, this is at a school where some straight guys slap each other's asses as a joke, and where platonic hugging is very, very common. This trope actually happens alot in conversations with parents.)

This Troper recalls an instance where he was working on a lab in biology with his female friend, when some girl came up and said something along the lines of "You two look cute together; are you going out?" to which my friend and I of course responded that we weren't. The funny part is that I happened to have a huge crush on that female friend, so it was not exactly unwelcome on my part.

Pretty much everyone is remarking on this troper and his friend's interactions like this. Like "are you two..." or "you two are glued together" or "I noticed you were working it with her last night." The trope is usually my response. She isn't unattractive though at all...

No, she's my ''best'' friend. You may stop asking now.

I have this friend and sometimes people tease me about her being my girlfriend, but we're not. (Although I so wish she was...) This is mainly so she won't feel comfortable.

Whenever I mention to my dad that I have a friend who's a girl (I'm a guy), he assumes she's my girlfriend. Annoyed me the most when my friend got hit by a car (she's fine now) and when I wanted to visit her in the hospital, my dad was like "ok, we'll go see your girlfriend now". NOT MY GIRLFRIEND.

This Troper has several good female friends. He decided to go to a bar to celebrate New Years with them one time. The next day, his brother approaches him, asking him about that blonde he was hanging out with. This Troper responds that she's just a friend, though he doesn't exactly believe him. The brother's drinking buddy pops in at this point and adds a comment about the Asian friend this Troper was also hanging around with. The brother responds with a simple, "nah, they're just friends". Cue facepalm.

This Tropette had this with her good friend, who then became her boyfriend. We've since broken up and are good friends, but now we are constantly asked if we are back together.

This Tropette has had it assumed that because she has had a playfight on numerous occasions with this friend, borrowed a book where a character who looks oddly like her best friend falls in love with a character who looks oddly like her, and the fact that I can't get a boyfriend and he can't get a girlfriend must mean we're in love! We say it isn't there. Everyone else insists it's there.

This Tropette sits next to a dude on the bus everyday. We're somewhat friends, but the entire school is under the impression we're dating.

This Troper was dating "Girl A" once in a long distance relationship, when I met "Girl B", who I had known in high school. Girl B and I started hanging around together a lot and I had to repeatedly say she wasn't my girlfriend. The outcome? Girl A and I broke up amicably and Girl B and I have now been married for 11 years and have three kids. She's my ''wife'', though - so I guess I can say she's still not my girlfriend.

This troper female troper has a guy friend who is more of a brother than anything else. He does, in fact, like me--I know this since he asked me out on my birthday. (It was so very, very awkward...) My mom also tells me that I should date him, and that she would like him to eventually be her son-in-law. I also have another guy friend who has been asked twice now if I'm his girlfriend. He's said no but sometimes I can't help but wonder if he likes me. This wasn't helped by my friend--who's into him--jokingly asking me if I'm "stealing her man". *headdesk*

This male troper has a lot more wishful thinkers around than actual luck with girls. Presenting cases A, B, C, and D.

A) My best friend is male. His wife's best friend is female. I spent a LOT of time with her best friend while they were dating, and we were the best man/ bridesmaid at the wedding. She's almost two feet shorter than I am, and six years older, and we still get monthly questions. We might have worked out four years ago, but the ship has sunk.

B) I went out to dinner with another married friend and his wife's large family(she has four sisters), including his available sister-in-law who's just as big a geek as I am. About halfway through dinner, ALL of her sisters and their husbands decided for us that we'd make the perfect couple. I heard that she vehemently tried to squelch that suggestion for the next few days... because all three of her brother's in law mentioned it when they told me privately they'd love to have me in the family.

C) Two amazingly attractive girls(Best friends) have started inviting me to all of their engagements. The common assumption is that I'm dating the one, when I think I'd be a far better match for the other, but regardless I haven't made a move on either for various reasons. The denials in this case are my handi-work, with all my friends and family. A few might be catching on.

D) I've had a very good female friend since High School, eight years now. She's helped me through breakups, and we've done a ton of things together. Since we often do things as a package deal, this trope occurs a lot.

I ended up with this trope when my LoveInterest broke up with his then-girlfriend and turned his attention to me. Not wanting to be insensitive towards his ex (who happened to be my friend), I decided I had to keep away from a relationship with him. It was very obvious what we felt for each other, though, leading others to think we were an official couple. We weren't... for a while, anyway.

Not to mention the fact that I pulled off a rather cute subversion of this yesterday, when he visited the school dressed like a K-pop idol. This conversation ensued inside the classroom: #QUOTE#'''Teacher''': She's acting differently. It's probably because her Korean boyfriend is here. #QUOTE#'''Me''': Correction. *beat* He is not Korean.

I have two.

First is my long-time best friend; I ship myself with him but he doesn't reciprocate. Alas. However, we're still very close, and apparently come off that way to the casual observer. I was at a mutal friend's wedding, dateless, and caught the flower she threw. #QUOTE# '''Random Relative of the Bride''', who I had previously met for about two minutes at the college graduation of the bride and my best friend and a few other college buddies: Ooo, you're going to get married this year? Are you still seeing the boyfriend you had at the bride's graduation? #QUOTE# '''Me''': Uh ... *casts mind back, who was I dating then, oh right him* ... yeah? #QUOTE# '''Random Relative of the Bride''': Oh, good, you two make such a sweet couple. #QUOTE# '''Me''': *thinks* Wait, my boyfriend wasn't even *there* ! #QUOTE# '''Random Relative of the Bride''': I met him! #QUOTE# '''Me''': *clue drops* Wait. My boyfriend is shorter than I am, kinda stocky, bad skin, buzzcut. #QUOTE# '''Random Relative of the Bride''': No, he's exactly your height, blond hair, skinny... #QUOTE# '''Me''': Oh dear. No. Not my boyfriend. #QUOTE# '''Random Relative of the Bride''': Oh. But you make such a sweet couple! #QUOTE# '''Me''': *head-table*

Second: he's pretty much my little brother (seven year age difference, but I look like I could be up to 10 years older than I am, and when his face doesn't have the Stubble of Doom, he drops five years). Even if I'd thought of getting a crush on him, he's completely gay, and has recently filled out the partnership paperwork with his boyfriend <3. The funniest incident was at the grocery store. We had separate orders, but he let me use his store card for the discount. The poor cashier addressed me as Mrs. (his last name) -- to date we're not sure whether the cashier thought I was his mother or his wife.

When this troper was in 7th grade she got teased quite a bit about being the girlfriend of her best friend's younger (by two years) brother, complete with being called "Mrs. [his name]". Six years later, said best friend has been mentioning that her brother and I are more or less perfect for each other. (It probably doesn't help that this troper's boyfriend is basically an older version of her best friend's brother..)

This troper also used to invoke this trope on a fairly regular basis about a guy friend of hers, much to his chagrin. (Which she discovered years later.)

One more example: Back in 6th grade, this troper's then-best friend dropped the dreaded "You guys would make such a cute couple!" upon seeing this troper talking to/roller skating with a platonic guy friend. It was highly embarrassing, all in all.

ThisTroper had two friends like this. I always ignored it, thinking it was just simple teasing. (Though it was certainly amusing to watch their extremely over-the-top reactions.) Guess what happened in the last year of juniour high? This obliterated whatever little thoughts I ever had that love might be an "act of fate". I now fully believe it is completely developmental.

This happens to me all the time when in public with my brother. We often get comments that suggest we're dating and have to explain that we are siblings. Some people still assume we're a couple even after they've been told. Awkward.

I have another example back from the sixth grade. I had short hair, boyish clothes and had not really hit puberty yet. I was visiting a friend's house. Her parents pulled her away and gave her the sex talk, assuming I was her boyfriend. My friend then had to explain I was a girl and the rest of the visit was extremely awkward.

This troper has had a crush on this girl for a long time, though it was never requited. When not referred to as brother and sister, folks assume we're dating. So much so, this troper's current girlfriend thought that she was his girlfriend.

This gay troper has been asked I don't know how many times if his roommate is his roommate or his... ''room''mate. I've been out for twelve years, thanks. If he were my boyfriend, I would call him my boyfriend.

This trope applied to a guy this troper didn't even talk to much or have anything to do with besides basically stalking him. Everybody said I was with him. I wasn't...Till I was?

This troper is platonic friends with a group of girls. This trope is invoked by anyone who knows me, and at least one of the girls. This would be alright, if the group is filled with shippers shipping me with other members. It's irritating, especially when this troper feels that they all have their... qualities. He needs one of them to invoke Version 2 of TenchiSolution, except that this troper lives on the far end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism.

This troper and his brother are very close. We frequently hug and whatnot in public. One day, a guy tells us we're such a cute couple. Enter the FridgeHorror. How many people had figured the same thing over the years of us doing crazy shit on the town...?

This troper had a friend he met in class who he had feelings for, but we stayed as friends, while both our friends kept trying to get us to go out. Ironically, we admitted our feelings and ended up dating. So, an eventual subversion?

I'm a girl, but tend to hang out with guys more often than girls, especially now that I'm in a predominately male major at a technical school. I have gotten this with many of my guy friends, but most often with my best friend. He was one of the first guys I met at college and became my best friend withing the month. While we both have admitted to feeling some attraction to each other at first, for me, it felt more like he was my cousin, and he has categorized me as somewhere between friend and sister. We share a lot of the same interests, and will often be seen going out to dinner and doing activities together that do not interest our respective significant others. On top of that, we both have very small "personal space bubbles", and will be seen hugging, leaning on each other, or engaging in tickle fights. These combined factors lead many people to assume we are dating, or at least in denial about our relationship. Due to the more familial feelings we have for each other, our answers can range from laughter to "OH GOD NO".

Get comfortable, folks, this is a long story... When I first came to secondary school, I met my soon-to-be best female friend. As she outclassed me academically in EVERYTHING, I hated her at first, seeing her as a rival. I was used to being on top. Because of this, people naturally assumed that I was repressing feelings for her. BST and all that. I was not. Flash forward a couple of years. People began to say what a great, cute couple we'd make. At this point, I was still not fond of her, and not amused by these comments. Flash forward again to last year. I'd grown up, and was now a much calmer, more sensitive young man. I sat beside her in Physics, and we began to chat. We began to have lunch together, and soon became friends. Flash forward one more time to this year. An old friend of mine joined the school, and I introduced them. They began to date in late October. People actually CONSOLED me, genuinely believing I liked her. Jesus. Several months passed, and they broke up around March of this year, for various reasons. Soon after, our school did a charity walk. I was with my old friend at the start. Midway through the walk though, my female friend jumps me from behind, and drags me into her group. She took my arm, and we continued on together, attracting numerous stares from our classmates... She then suggested that we attend the formal later this year together, if neither of us can find a date. Given who we are, this is quite likely. I accepted, having no better ideas, and not wanting to disappoint her. Naturally, after this incident, people assumed we were going out. I was forced to correct them, and, in a CMOF, I famously denied vehemently that there was any UST between us to a crowd... Just as she walked into the room. My reaction? "... OH GOD DAMN IT!" However... We have both confessed to having thought about "us" at at least one time. So, who knows what the future holds for us... For now, however, she's one of my best friends, and I love her very, very much. But that's it. For now.

As a side note, I am often mistaken for some of my other female friends' boyfriends.

This troper is constantly being accused of this in regards to several of my male friends. I have this thing where I tend to hang around people I've known awhile or talk to easiest the most, so naturally when one of those friends is a guy, this happens a lot. One friend was a guy who was very much hopelessly in love with a very popular, and preppy girl. Another was a guy I met last year who's nice, though semi-depressive. The guy after that is a black friend who was until recently friends with the middle guy. I didn't think about any of them romantically at all and I never intended anything romantic between any of them. All of them, I have been accused of liking or dating at a constant basis. It gets really annoying. Especially since several months back, I found out the black guy liked my best friend, so the middle guy and I were very happy to set them up. My best friend and the black guy are together, but I see him more often then she does thanks to her switching schools. I also have a class with him and we often get into poke wars, and I end up talking to him in the hallway or outside a lot too. This is because I think of him like a brother and adding him as a sibling on Facebook hasn't seemed to stop the She Is Not My Girlfriend moments. So, half the school thinks we are dating or like each other even though half the time we're talking about his girlfriend!

This troper and his best friend are LikeBrotherAndSister, to the point that we actually call each other "bro" and "sis". We've been confused for boyfriend and girlfriend a couple of times.

The guys at the local movie theater are convinced that this troper is a huge sleazeball, given that I've been to movies there with about a dozen different girl friends, with emphasis on the space. One of them even asked me about it once.

these past few school years, whenever this troper hangs out with this one boy, someone will inevitably come up to us and ask "are you two dating?". The first two years, it was a little while before this happened, but this year it happened ''on the first day of school'' (ironically, it hasn't happened since due to the fact that he and I only share one class [two if you count advisory] and don't sit near each other).

This trope was averted with my junior-high, high school, and college guy friends, as back then, everyone mistook me for asexual (I'm straight) and believed me when I said I only liked guys as friends. I'm currently in Job Corps (think high school-meets-trade school with little sprinkles of college, the working world, and the military on top) taking culinary arts classes where this trope is being played straight. Long story short: I've taken a shine to this shy, quiet white boy from Tennessee (I'm a black girl from Pennsylvania) and even though he's physically my type (PaleSkinnedBrunette with blue eyes, kinda OlderThanHeLooks [he's 20, but could pass for being high school-aged; I'm the same way, only I'm 25 and could pass for being college-aged], and the fact that he has kind of a low, drawling voice, a gap between his front teeth, and blushes easily is icing on the cake), I don't know him that well and am not the kind of person who rushes headfirst into love (plus, I'm one of those "Career first, love later" type of people, just like I mentioned in the TroperTales page for {{Tsundere}}), and he wholeheartedly agrees with me that we should be friends (and that's really what I wanted from him in the first place). This doesn't stop the occasional joker from mentioning that we're a couple and one of us either blushing or running away in shame.

This troper hugs all her friends, even the guy ones, and has one friend in particular that she hugs every day. A friend told her that he had a crush on her, but unfortunately, this troper is happy with someone else now. Doesn't stop people from asking all the time if we're dating. Further complicated because the actual boyfriend is out of town.

This troper had a friend whose parents (or mother at least) was actively hoping to match us up, but it was the babysitted who actually referred to us as boyfriend/girlfriend. Cue joint yells: "She/He is not my boy/girlfriend!!"

This troper is mainly asexual, yet everybody is always shipping her with someone. They've shipped me with an InsufferableGenius (We liked to mess each other's hair, that's doesn't mean anything!), an AmbiguouslyAutistic 8-years-older-than-her guy (my best friend), a borderline ButchLesbian (well, this one's a complicated history), a HollywoodNerd (subverted since he ''really'' ended up being the only boyfriend I've ever had)...yep, she's not herself an example of normality, but is still pissing...

In a rare almost-like-the-TV-versions example, This Troper has been told for a year that this girl that he didn't like in a romantic way has a crush on him. He has been told numerous times to ask her out, but has denied every one because he didn't like her. A year later, he does start liking her, asks her out, and she says yes! We're still dating (over 6 months as of now) and everyone thinks we make such a cute couple!

This troper tends to hang around with girls more than other guys. As you can predict, this happens a lot.

This troper has a friend who plays ShipperOnDeck with another friend and I, and he is quick to say that we aren't, as well as adding we're JustFriends and he likes nobody. However, with my opinion... eventually I did say it, since I couldn't keep playing along. I still think my doing so turned the awkwardness up a lot, but this is a story still being written...

This troper had the unfortunate pleasure of this happing to him directly, paranoid that someone is thinking that, and apparently no one cared. Sit down and enjoy the certain instances of this Trope making me *headdesk*

College. Varied greatly with this girl I know. Played straight due to us being in AnimeClub and her interaction with other guys. Giving her a ride home via my parents since I didn't have a license on the other hand, I get this question from my parents.

College, but this time it was me and a high school girl in her last year. Happened on a trip with friends downtown when two of our friends noticed our friendship and attempted to ship us. Made worse after a watergun fight when I [Classified Infomation] a few weeks later and then asked about that day and she said more people noticed. More worse when I hung out with her after our classes ended with me taking the trouble of traveling all the way from downtown (45min-1hr mind you) to meet her at our high school. My friends that saw us kept trying to ship us. For awhile.

There were also that one time I was with ANOTHER girl but I won't bore you with that.

This happened in regards to my sister and I, the mistaken party being a pastor. Where did it happen? The wake of my grandmother's funeral.

This troper and her best friend. The first year we met, we were together at school every day, and were asked every day if we were going out. It actually got to the point where we replied, "No." at the same time (which just added fuel to the fire, really) Even though it has died down, we still get teased about it every so often.

as for me, i am such a loser in school that the DAY i started talking to a girl, everyone in the year thought we were together. now we cant even speak without people asking us stuff.

This happens to me and my male friend all the time. This one kid keeps teasing us, saying that he "saw" us flirt with each other and he suspects something cause we're always together. This other guy claims I'm jealous of this chick that dated my friend at the time, even though I clearly wasn't since I kept making fun of my friend for getting a girlfriend (how does that even scream out jealousy)? This one teacher even said we were both cute together! It doesn't help that we dated before.

This Troper has this problem, but the guy is two years older. EVERYONE THINKS WE'RE GOING OUT. I get fed up with saying, "Mom, he is MY FRIEND. JUST A FRIEND.

During his senior year in high school, my brother endured this from just about everyone with regards to his ex-girlfriend (they were still close friends). Among those who knew them, the leading opinion was that they were a couple, they just didn't realize it. I held the minority view that they weren't boyfriend and girlfriend, they were husband and wife. It certainly didn't help that our parents were good friends. This went on until he resumed his relationship with his girlfriend from theater camp, and she came out to prom.

Me and one of my Amigas^ often get this, despite the fact that she is engaged to someone else. ^I use that because it's quicker than typing "friend-who's-a-girl" and I refuse to use "girlfriend" in that context.

This Troper has a school filled with Shippers On Deck, so this is natural for all students. There was one incident he'd rather not recall that involved this. Hint: Fine dining + former friend as partner = OhCrap for This Troper.

Justified with this troper. She could never date the guy everyone thinks is her boyfriend because ''he's her father!!'' Please. Don't even ask how people make that mistake.

This Troper was such a loner in junior high that by now, many of his classmates ship him with practically anybody who he talks to for more than 30 seconds. This Troper, however, is using this as a XanatosRoulette to try to attract girls to him, as well as a few Xanatos Gambits involving... he'll just mention that they deal with combining his favorite Tropes and using that EldritchAbomination of a plan.

This troper and her boyfriend started out as friends, and this troper's roommate and another friend both quickly caught on to the fact that he liked me. It took me a couple months to sort out how I felt about this since I'd never had a boyfriend before, during which time this trope was repeatedly invoked by yours truly to said friends and on some occasions her family. He asked me to his Quidditch team's Yule Ball, and about a week later this troper decided that she liked him after they started holding hands while watching ''Tangled''. Cue RelationshipUpgrade when they got back to campus, as well as this troper's FirstKiss.

This troper has had several occurrences of this, almost always with girls he would like to be his girlfriend.

I was overseas, and Facebooking a female friend of mine from home (who I was developing quite a crush on). I was asked who she was, and responded that she was my friend, or so I thought. Turns out that in the language I was speaking, the feminine form of 'friend' is used exclusively for 'girlfriend'. It was only when they saw a picture of her with a male friend of hers and asked if she was cheating on me that I realized my error.

Another one was one of my best friends, who I have known for close to ten years, and in those ten years, I became rather smitten with her. A lot of people simply assumed we were dating, and my parents actually encouraged me to pursue a relationship. As it happens, she also was attracted to me, but we decided that we are better as friends. A few moths ago, she got engaged. When I mentioned it to my mom, her first response was "but, she is supposed to marry you!"

This troper has several guy friends, but with one of her friends there apparently is a certain "spark", according to their other friends, who have repeatedly made comments along the lines of "are you two having sex?" "Is he your boyfriend?" etc. For the record, this male friend already has a girlfriend, a fact their other friends apparently fail to notice.

This troper had this happen with a female friend of his in college that he would always hang out with. This tropers female cousin would always ask if they were dating, as would his parents and grandparents and whatnot. It got especially bad when said female friend invited him out to her grandparents place in So Cal to hang out for Spring Break (which this troper took up because he had never traveled for vacation without family of some sort with him).....cue plenty of NotWhatItLooksLike from me to everyone who gets told about the trip.

The people in my high school school are strange. All the way through 7-9 *And year 6* I got asked "How's Babes (A nickname of his he'll recognize) going/Will you marry Babes?" and the strangest thing is, we never talked, we didn't really chat, and the most intimate we got was EYE CONTACT...weird. Does apply because I denied it thoroughly till like year 10 or 9. When I started accepting his weird way of doing things...and started seeing it A LITTLE.

Second currant incidence (Multiples) which may or may not end up with an actual relationship is right now. We could end up "dating" we could not. Depends...I'm a twitchy commitment phobe and he's pulling out a "Who will you marry" crap...already!

These are the types of boys I attract, We are not engaged either!

This troper is often shipped with one of her friends that reminds her of her brother (mannerisms, voice type, interests, speech patterns, the works), even by people who know better. One of her friends constantly asks if she'll consider dating him when the friend KNOWS she has feelings for someone else and ONLY that person. She managed to shut the friend up after asking if she'd date her brother. Her family also seems to think we're dating, when we consider each other to be brother and sister and nothing else.

Back when this troper was in eighth grade, there was a girl in my French class who was convinced she was my girlfriend (she wasn't), and had somehow had convinced quite a number of other students so. Needless to say, it made school rather awkward for this troper.

This tropette is constantly saying this to their Yuri Fanboy friend et al, about the girl she knows who she has bucketloads of Les Yay and UST with. It's pathetic because she loves her lots and only denies it because she just wants her to be happy.

This has happened a lot to this Troper. She's usually viewed OneOfTheBoys by the guys involved though. What's worse is one time, she did end up having her first ever real crush on one of them. It ended up just fizzling out when he indirectly rejected her without an actual confession or confrontation.

This was the entire relationship (well, maybe this plus a slight degree of {{BST}}) between this troper and her male friend... until a very recent RelationshipUpgrade. Now upgraded to ''what'' is still unclear...

This trope is the story of my life. My friends began joking about how me and a friend of mine would make a good couple a few years ago, and are still joking about the very same guy even now. And those of my friends that don't think we should go out/ are already going out think the same thing about my hate-friend, just because we pretend to hate each other. And a few people think I'm a lesbian now because of her and my complete lack of sexual relationships. Because yeah, if I don't have a boyfriend I must be gay or asexual.

A guy attempted to use this trope to manipulate this (straight, male) troper into going out with him. He dropped out of the school after the ''two''! girls I've had this trope with (still good friends) 'dealt' with him. He apparently assumed I was gay because I was a fan of Ouran High School Host Club or something.

This (female, bi) troper's best friend is a lesbian. Friend has been coming along with troper to a dance workshop/social club at troper's university, learning to lead. They've known each other for years, get along like a house on fire, and often dance (...badly) with each other at the workshops. The TomboyAndGirlyGirl thing, where friend is the tomboy and troper is the girly girl, doesn't really help. Nor did going to a all-girls private high school where most other classmates were anxious to invoke HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Troper and friend acknowledge that certain behaviour, like the hugs and the dancing, can give the wrong impression, but they don't care for each other like that!

Happened to me whilst at a competition thing. I was ambling around with my ex-girlfriend, just me and her, for something on four hours, around the rather large campus of the host high school. The rest of our friend group understood that we were just really bored and playing around, but everyone else thought we were flirting madly and automatically assumed we were a couple. A few girls asked if we were dating. Cue both of us tittering awkwardly and saying "No, we broke up a while ago."

Basically, just the story of this troper's life. Up until high school, all her friends were male. Cue basically everyone in the school asking if she and *insert guy friend name here* were going out.... the response was always an emphatic "NO!" This troper even had friends (not to mention her MOM) that started shipping her and some of her friends.... On top of all that, this troper is asexual (not that she's told her mom--she thinks this troper is enough of a freak as it is).

A mutual friend of mine asked me and my male friend if we liked each other or something. She seems to have forgotten the fact that I'm only attracted to 2-D guys and that he's still hung up on his previous heartbreak.

I have this friend who is a guy. When I told my mom I'm inviting him for my birthday, she instantly asked "ooh, a boyfriend?" to which I replied "...no, Mom, just a friend."

SHE IS NOT MY- oh, forget it, I give up.