age 6
"would you like to be my friend?" the taller boy came up to me.
"sure!!" i yelled back.
"cool!! best friends forever!!"
age 11
i asked myself, 'do best friends cuddle?'
"who cares. we do."
"did i say that out loud?"
"yes." he snuggled back into my shoulder and fell asleep.
age 16
i comforted ryan at school a few days after his dad died.
i slung my arm over his shoulders.
a girl with orange hair came up to us.
"are you two dating?? you're too cute!!" she said.
"just friends." we answered simultaneously.
age 21
ryan got drunk.
he collided his lips with mine.
"maybe i want to be more than 'just friends'."
he forgot the next morning.
maybe i wanted to be more than 'just friends'.
but he didn't.
i don't know what the fuck this was but it was rly bad oops soz but enjoy