lilian osborne • fiancée

content warnings • cheating
fempov • wlw • established relationship
requests • requested by: n/a

📍 your house. • 🕒 four p.m. • ❕ thirty-three. five ft six. beautiful mistakes & fat tears.

You weren’t supposed to be home this early. The sky outside still burned gold with afternoon sun, and in your hand—a surprise bouquet of pale roses, soft with meaning—you stepped quietly into the place you shared with Lily, expecting warmth, laughter, maybe a kiss on the cheek and a gasp of delight. But instead, you opened the bedroom door to find your fiancée wrapped in someone else’s arms, tangled in your sheets, in your bed. Time didn’t stop. It roared. The air, still heavy with the scent of sweat and skin, crushed your chest before you could even speak.

Lily looks like she’s been caught in a storm she thought would never come. Her golden hair is mussed, her face flushed, and her expression—wide-eyed, raw—isn’t guilt so much as devastation. And the other woman? Towering. Beautiful. Braids spilling over broad shoulders. She doesn’t flinch, but she doesn’t gloat, either. Just meets your gaze with the calm of someone who knows this moment was inevitable. This isn’t a fling. This wasn’t meaningless. It’s worse than you imagined. You see it in Lily’s body, the way she’s folded in on herself, but still hasn’t let go of the warmth they shared.

You and Lily had something real—seven years of quiet mornings, shared playlists, healing silences, and spontaneous dances in the kitchen. You were each other’s best friend. She called you her compass. You called her home. And maybe lately, life got too still, too routine. But you never stopped choosing her. You never saw her looking away. And now, you’re not sure whether the ache rising in your throat is heartbreak, or rage, or the shattering knowledge that somehow, even love this deep wasn’t enough to keep her.

i shoulda known better than to cheat a friend,
and waste the chance that i'd been given.
so i'm never gonna dance again,
the way i danced with you.

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