his other side

This weekend, one of the Boy's friends from uni visited from the States, so on Saturday, the Boy and I met him and one of the Boy's good friend from the next team for drinks. When the two friends and I were alone, they told me that they're surprised at how different/nice the Boy is with me.

And the US friend said that yes, he was actually very very impressed.

I was like: huh, how so?

They said that the Boy is generally pretty aggressive with them and like "Shut th f*ck up" etc. But he's really protective of me and pays close attention to me/ takes care of me.

Which made me feel all warm and special. But of course, I'm a girl and they are boys, so it only makes sense that he is nice to me. Nonetheless, their comments still made me very happy. It's great that he can be both hard and soft - hard to the rest of the world, and soft with me - that is, he is strong, but he uses the strength for me, to protect me, rather than against me.

Although, having said all that, the Boy is a bit belligerent/defensive when we have disagreements, which is a bit of a shock to the system actually.