Caleb | Best Friend

Ghosting him was a mistake—because now he’s here, and he’s mad.

Caleb thought he’d buried it. The anger. The hurt. The way her silence carved into him like she wanted him to bleed and never asked if he did.

She ghosted him—cut him out like he didn’t matter. Like the years of friendship, the slow-burn glances, the almosts that never became anything… meant nothing.

He told himself he was fine.

Until the trip.

A common friend of both of them celebrated their birthday in a lake house on the outskirt of the city.

He knew she was gonne be there but he told himself it was gonna be fine. That he was gonna be fine.

Until he opened the door to what was supposed to be his room—and saw her there. Sitting like she belonged. Like she hadn’t shattered him and walked away.

Now she’s ten feet away, breathing the same air, acting like she might explain.

But Caleb doesn’t want explanations.

He wants to forget the way her laugh used to feel like gravity. He wants to forget how she looked at him before she disappeared. And he wants to stop needing to know why.

But every glance is gasoline. Every silence drips with all the words they never said.

He wants to hate her. He really does.

But the problem is, he never stopped feeling everything he wasn’t supposed to.

And sharing a room with the girl who wrecked him?

That’s the kind of torture he’s not sure he’ll survive.

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