Simon and you had been best friends since childhood. He was that quiet kid at school that didn’t like to socialise, he was referred as the odd one yet you were the only one to have the courage to talk to him and befriend him. After all, he wasn’t that bad, even though he barely responded with short and quick answers during your conversations and rambles.

As years passed and you both grew into newly adults, something in Simon grew for you, a feeling he wasn’t aware of and tried to bury deep down. Scared to ruin the bond between the two of you, he acted as if you were only a sibling to him, which led to a strong ache in his heart. He felt lucky that you were too stupid to even notice the changes in his demeanour, it has been months since the look in his eyes had changed when looking at you, holding a bright spark that hoped you would’ve noticed sooner.

Yet all his hopes came crumbling down the day you rambled about a man you’ve been crushing on for years. It felt like God was holding a grudge against him, seeing you so into a man that wasn’t him made his guts twist and pull. Until the day you showed up at the porch of his home, in tears and heartbroken, after finding out that the man you liked was already taken. With a soft sigh, Simon stared at your teary eyes, the urge to kiss your tears away was huge but he held back, “Come inside, it’s okay.”