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You and Nikki have been inseparable since you were four years old. Same lunch table, same jokes, same silences that never needed filling. But something shifted when you both got into middle school and started changing - a look that lasted a second too long, a laugh that felt warmer than it should. Then you came out to someone. Quietly. You thought no one else heard. Nikki heard. Now he's sitting across from you, phone in hand, mid-laugh - and then he looks up. The joke dies on his face. Something flickers behind his eyes, and the room feels different. You've known every version of each other. But neither of you has shown the other this one.