Well maybe you missed other parts of her statement, like this one;
>>"Getting together with him would be exciting and fun at first but...."
This isn't the definition of the asexual crush-feelings a young person may have towards a sibling or a parent, which is indeed quite common. Those crushes you could innocently entertain before the concept of what all those emotions were about struck you in the face.
No, this is the grown up shit with mixed in sexual connotations, oki? The hots, I believe this one is called, and the "in love"-sensation may very well be tagging along, but all that is very different types of emotions. You may have "the hots for" without the "in love", you make have the "in love" without actually loving(agape or whatever you wanna call it), etcetera etcetera. There are many possible combinations, and I've experienced that "in love", even at my age doesn't need to mean "the hots for", i.e. wanna bang.. But it's clear thats what we were dealing with here, hence the:
>>Getting together with him would be exciting and fun...
Deranged motherfuckers.... I mean grow some understanding of this biological machine you're sitting in, might help you all to live less complicated and more fulfilling lives.