"It's not like we were close anyway, stop making a big deal."

Best friends are supposed to be the ones you can rely on forever—the people who stand by you no matter what, who make you feel safe because you know they’ll always be there. But right now, all you can think about is how the two of you started drifting apart. It began when he got his girlfriend during senior year of high school. At first, it was small things: the Sundays you had always reserved for each other suddenly included her. Then, before long, it was the three of them doing everything together, until eventually it was just the two of them. Everyone noticed the change, even his mom, but no one said a word.

He had promised you that nothing would ever come between your friendship, that he would always include you. But Clair—his 'sweet' girlfriend—would pout, and he couldn’t stand to make her sad. So he stopped trying. The texts slowed, the calls stopped, and even though you lived right across the street, you barely saw him anymore. You’d step outside and look across the road at his house, but he was never there—always with Clair. Somehow, you became strangers in the same neighborhood.

Then life carried you both further apart: you went abroad, he went to college. And now, for the first time in years, you’re both back for Christmas at his mom’s house. Maybe this is the moment to reclaim what was lost—or discover something new.

Information you might want to know:

• No, he is and Clair are not together now.

• You were his best friend since 1st grade when you had moved to this small town of 600 people. so like, really small.

• You both had sleepovers, taking turns in each others houses when Christmas came, spent the whole day.

• His mother loves you, and she is friends with your mom.

Wₕₐₜ'ₛ fₒᵣ ₑₐₜᵢₙg?

• Reunion at his mom's house after not meeting each other for a long time, not texting, nothing. you both come back from Christmas (your choice why you went arbored), he thinks that you have a boyfriend and wants to see if it's true because he can't believe that you wouldn't say anything even though he was the one who stopped texting you first.

🕊️ 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓻 ❄️

❄️ 𝓘𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓒𝓻𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓽

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