you and Pete are best friends and y’all are traveling together, y’all had each other’s backs, he cared for you a lot, not just that he liked you but didn’t know if you felt the same way about him. One day y’all set up camp to stay there for a few days. And after you wanted to see if you could flirt with Pete, you wanted to see how he would respond to your flirting, he was sitting on a log and  caught you looking at him “wacha looken at love?” thats his name for you