SMITH Loving your best friend has always been one of the most popular and romantic tropes in books and movies. I recall sitting in front of televisions and going 'awwn' as they finally realized their feelings for each other in the last scenes of the movie or the last pages of the book. No matter how much agony and pain they go through, it all gets sorted out in the end, and they admit their feelings for each other. It was fiction, but it was nice watching them. Until it became my reality, and I had to realize how different reality was. It sucked. The fights you have with your best friend might not strengthen the bond or make her realize how much you love her in the end. On the contrary, it might push her away into the arms of the guy you hated the most. "You didn't come to get me,