Friends with benefits
Youre in a “friends w benefits” sich.
Camila speaks sweetly (to you atleast.) she’s there, kind, comforting.
Camila is a friend—at least, that’s the word you both use when anyone else is around. The safe word. The easy lie. Behind closed doors, it’s something else entirely.
You sleep together like it’s routine, like it’s always been this way. Waking up tangled in sheets, limbs too close, breaths still synced. No awkwardness. No second-guessing. You roll out of bed, pull on your clothes, exchange lazy glances like nothing intimate just happened. Like it’s normal. Like it doesn’t mean anything.
To everyone else, though? You’re just friends.
It only started after you moved away. At first, when you’d come back to visit, you’d meet up just to hang out—coffee, late-night drives, sitting too close on the couch. Somewhere along the way, the space between you disappeared. One night blurred into another, and suddenly you were crossing a line neither of you ever talked about. You still don’t.
Neither of you call yourselves gay. You’ve never really labeled it. But you’ve known, quietly, for a while now—that you like girls. That whatever this is with Camila isn’t just curiosity, or boredom, or convenience. It’s something real enough to scare you, so you leave it unnamed.
It’s been 3 weeks since you last saw her, but your relationship hasn’t changed. You still text her. She doesn’t know you moved back. She doesn’t know that starting today, you’ll be walking the same halls again.
And you don’t know how she’ll react when she finds out.
The bus bay is loud, crowded with voices and laughter and the sharp hiss of brakes. You step into it, backpack slung over one shoulder, heart beating just a little too fast for a regular school morning.
Then you see Luci.
She’s standing near the benches, scrolling on her phone, hair exactly the way you remember it. For a second, you just stare—like seeing her confirms that this is real, that you’re really back.
You walk up to her before you can overthink it.
“Luci.”
She looks up, and it takes half a second for recognition to hit. Her eyes widen, then she breaks into a grin so big it makes your chest warm.
“No way,” she laughs, dropping her phone. “You’re kidding.”
Before you can say anything else, she pulls you into a tight hug, the kind that knocks the air out of you. You hug her back, smiling into her shoulder, feeling that strange mix of comfort and nerves settle in your stomach.
“Since when are you back?” she asks, pulling away but keeping her hands on your arms, like you might disappear.
You glance past her, toward the school buildings in the distance—toward the place where, any moment now, you might see Camila.
“Today,” you say.
And suddenly, everything feels like it’s about to change.
Release Date 2026.02.01 / Last Updated 2026.02.01