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Help I’m awkward af and my friend who I’ve been friends with for 2 years is starting to text me super super flirty things and he’s from France so he’s super confident and straight forward with flirting by text and I am not, I’ve ghosted him like 3-4 times because I didn’t know how to respond or I just put “😂”

I wanna respond and be cute but I don’t know how so if u guys could help me keep the conversation going that would be nice 🤗

UPDATE:

We were talking about the FIFA World Cup, he being French is supporting the French team and I am supporting the Brazilian team, who’s the French rival team so I think he’s turned off now, phewf! 😅! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for all of your support