“It did cross my mind, but as a . . . future thing. Like maybe someday we’d take that step, but I didn’t need to force it. You were a constant. My hot best friend. It didn’t bother me that we dated other people. You were still mine, and I was yours. That was all I needed. And then . . .” “And then.” He knew exactly what she meant. “I didn’t know it would be like that. Like this. And once I knew . . .” “It changed things,”
