We’ve broken the code
Here’s a helpful tidbit: we don’t use names very often. In your conversations with your pals, how frequently do you refer to them by their true names, or their nicknames? To her credit, this lady made an attempt at subtlety by including the name of her closest friend in a text message to the same close friend. In the same vein as when you see someone on the phone calling someone else “sis” or anything along those lines.
A lot of males, like the narrator, need to be informed honestly that the person they’re texting has a crush on them. People’s lives are too short to spend time being coy.