[He gives her an odd sort of smile. It's more pained than amused, and normally this wouldn't even be up for discussion but it feels like it doesn't matter much today. She said she liked him just the way he is, and somehow that gives him room to open up, to tell her that this is not something that happens.
That usually, when people touch him, it's not because they like him.]
Not as far as I know. Tying kids to goal posts seem to be though, at least in my high school.