There's a character in the story our teacher assigned us to read who asks this: "What do you do if you like somebody but you don't want to like them because love is too messy for you? What if you want to just get rid of your lovey-dovey feelings for the person but you don't know how to but you kind of also don't want to get rid of it yet you do? Get what I mean?"

The teacher wants us to answer the question