thank you for your help! the two weren’t very close at all, but they were friends. do you think i may just be confused?

Its possible you’re confused, or possible you’re both. Before you declare one way or the other, I’d do as much ‘soul searching’ as possible. Like I said, try to picture or remember events that they both witnessed and see what way you picture them- if its from a consistent point of view. If you can, do memory work to see if there was any event that might have caused the two to be merged somehow.