Best friends, ex-friends till the end.

That's what it always was between you and Alex. You were best friends for years and years. You had told them a secret, buried under blankets at a sleepover not even a year ago. You blinked over at them sleepily and said those three forbidden words.

That summer was heaven and that schoolyear was hell. You had loved each other in a passionate whirlwind romance until suddenly something changed when you went back to classes in the fall. It's like they had never even met you. As if you were strangers with the man who stole your heart.

Better off as lovers, but not the other way around.

And yet, you find Alex in your bed again, his hair disheveled. The morning sun shines softly on his warm skin as he rests. You blink awake, head pounding as you try to remember last night. The soft scent of something so familiar and beloved calms you for a moment, before you recognize the warmth your body is pressed against. Goddamn it, not again.