Roger Bartlett
The first time he met you, he caught Mac on the way out and asked him if he knew much about you. He'd pretend that he wasn't interested in you in the slightest, but after you'd left, he would ask the other members about you.
Sometimes he'd leave little gifts in your hut with no note so you didn't know it was him. Mac heard from you that you were getting small gifts but thought better than to allude to it perhaps being Roger.
He did ask him about it and to this day, he is the only one to know about his little secret.
Virgil Hilts
Back in the camp, he would deliberately move your things to his hut so you had to look for them. When you asked about it, he'd just tell you that you left it there or that he found it and couldn't find you, but kept forgetting to give it back.
It was usually just your badges or your notebooks. He'd do it whenever he got the chance just because it meant he had more time to talk with you.
Other times, he would place your things on a higher shelf so you would have to ask him for help. He kinda just wanted to impress you.
Eric Ashley-Pitt
As his crush on you developed more and more, he ended up writing poetry about you. And he did a good job of keeping it secret...
Apart from when Virgil found it... Then he spent the next month getting teased at every turn and suggestive remarks whenever he saw him talking to you.
"Oh my rose, I cannot be without theeeeeee", Virgil sang.
No one else ever found out but they were confused as to why he would do it. Lucky for him, Hilts isn't the type to tell others' secrets.
"Set my heart aflameeeee my deeeaaaaarrrrrrr", purposeful voice cracks. It would always make him blush but he never spoke of it.
Robert Hendley
He constantly tried to charm you by flirting with you.
He would practices these lines just to make sure he could do it properly and he had assumed no one would find out.
But Colin walked it while he was practising lines in the closed window.
Colin promised never to tell you but he would make inside jokes that you wouldn't get to fluster him.
Willie
He likes hugging you from behind so even before you ended up together, he'd just slip his arms around you, pretending he was trying to spook you and then just suavely leave his arms around you.
It's a secret he shares with Danny and he actually thinks it's cute that he likes you so much.
Danny
He used to get so shy when he first met you that you actually thought he was mute/ not fond of you. He couldn't take more than 5 words to you at a time before freaking out.
It went on for like 4 weeks before he finally managed to fully open up to you.
He isn't proud of it but he's thought more about you in those moments than he's talked to you.
Willie could definitely tell you had an effect on his friend.
Mac
Even after so many years, when he notices that you're sad, he'll conveniently place all your favourite things in plain sight so when you find them, you don't feel as bad.
Only your daughter knows about it :)
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The Great Escape Preferences
Romancepreferences of the 1960s movie. I don't expect anyone to read it because the fandom is obscure and very small.