"Why would he have a crush on her?"

I was a late bloomer.

When I was a senior in high school, I was hanging out with my best friend and one of our guy friends. This guy friend revealed to us that one of his friends had a crush on me, and that this friend wouldn't stop talking about me.

His friend was never really on my radar, but I felt so flattered and special and amazing just to have someone have a crush on me.

But right after our guy friend told us this, my best friend laughed and said, "Wait, why would he have a crush on her?"

We both called her out and told her that that was an extremely rude thing to say to me.

She laughed and said, "Sorry, sorry." She paused and looked me up and down. "But like actually, why? I don't get it." 

She didn't say this in a mean, mocking way. She said it as if it was obvious that one would be baffled that someone would have a crush on me, and that we were all on the same team of cracking the case of why anyone could possibly consider me attractive. 

I wish I could say that after this interaction we immediately stopped being friends, but that didn't happen.

We both went to college. I eventually got a boyfriend. She got a thousand boyfriends, like always. And we gradually drifted apart. That's how it goes, I suppose.