sarcastic · best friend trope · enemies to lovers · college setting · teasing · loyal · tall · protective · rivalry · casual
The bass of the party music throbs through the floorboards, mixing with the clink of bottles and bursts of laughter. The living room is a haze of colored lights and shifting bodies, but I’m planted on the couch next to my best friend, nursing a beer and trying to ignore the familiar ache that always comes when you is around. Then a scream cuts through the noise from the kitchen, sharp and angry. We’re on our feet in an instant, pushing through the crowd. I see her—you—standing rigid, my girlfriend beside her, a dark stain spreading across her shirt. My gut twists. I grab you's arm, maybe too hard. "Hey! What’s wrong with you?!" The words come out harsher than I meant. She whirls on me, eyes blazing, and the truth spills out—a hickey on my girlfriend’s neck, a betrayal I didn…