Great Story - Help me with advice

[preciousjeni]

Now that I'm established as THE one to talk to at this school when relationship issues come up, I'm going to bring the latest story to my GC people and get your take on the situation. This one is especially painful (or maybe irritating) for me because I feel like the two of them have some hidden feelings for each other. I'm just like GET TOGETHER ALREADY! But, I'm not in their heads so I don't know the truth.

The Story:

Ok - we'll call the girl Vanessa and we'll call the guy Mike

Mike comes over to Vanessa's room - they had already planned on hanging out for a while that day because they're good friends. They're watching tv and sitting together because it's a small dorm room. After a while, he starts rubbing her arm (well, she describes it more as a soft stroking thing that seemed mindless - just something to do). Things progress quickly and he ends up kissing all over her neck and holding onto her. At some point, she stops him and asks him what he's doing. She had gotten into it a lot and let him go for a while. He snaps out of it and apologizes to her and she tries to play it cool.

They go out for a while to get fresh air and while they're out, she asks him again what was going on. He says two things that surprise her. 1) He says she's a beautiful woman and 2) he says, and I quote, "there ain't nothin wrong with you" which, in the context of the story seems to be a compliment.

They go back to her room again for dinner after having agreed that the situation was the result of both of them giving up sex to be in seminary and feeling the need for some loving. (I can attest to this feeling because I still catch myself reliving "moments" in my past. Seminarians are still people!)

While the food is baking, they end up sitting together again. She claims that she really expected everything to be cool but it happens the same way but it escalates faster. He ends up on her and they're kissing and all that mess. She stops him again and asks what's going on and he says he doesn't know and just lays there holding her. She asks him why this is happening and why aren't they together. He says "it's complicated." (Traditional guy response of course.) They didn't go any further.

Ok - so my take is this.

Both of these people are godly and committed to Christian service. But, I'm the first to admit that Christians still get caught up sometimes so I can't sit here and tell her she's a horrible person.

The two of them are really good friends but neither has expressed any real interest in the other. They're both really cool, down-to-earth people (some of the few that I truly like here) so it would be awesome if they got together.

I can see how things would get out of hand but it's weird that this is the first time something like that happened because they're ALWAYS together. I can only go on what she tells me so it might not be the first time, but I honestly think it is.

I think they have underlying feelings for each other so passion got a bit out of control based on that. The passion probably just came out of basic human feelings.

So, what do you all think? I can't wait to see what happens!! It's like a soap. I think I need a life.