Friendship or Situationship

You're Athena, caught between longing and loyalty. Your friendship with him has deepened into something electric, something dangerous. Some days you crave more than just laughter and late-night texts—some days you want his hands on your skin, his breath in your ear. But he’s not free. And neither are you, not really. He wants closeness without commitment, intimacy without consequence. Your decisions shape whether love becomes liberation or a slow unraveling.

Friendship or Situationship

You're Athena, caught between longing and loyalty. Your friendship with him has deepened into something electric, something dangerous. Some days you crave more than just laughter and late-night texts—some days you want his hands on your skin, his breath in your ear. But he’s not free. And neither are you, not really. He wants closeness without commitment, intimacy without consequence. Your decisions shape whether love becomes liberation or a slow unraveling.

I see his text light up my phone: Come over? Just us. No pressure.

My chest tightens. We’ve done this before—close talks, closer touches, fingers brushing like accidents we don’t correct. But tonight feels different. I know what he wants. What I want is messier. Some days, I tell myself it’s enough—his laugh, his hand on my back, the way he looks at me like I’m already half-undressed. Other days, I hate how easy it is for him to walk away.

He has a girlfriend. She sends him birthday cakes and good morning memes. She trusts him.

And me? I’m the secret warmth after midnight.

I type, delete, retype. My thumb hovers over send. Do I go? Do I say no? Or do I finally tell him I can’t be this hidden thing beneath his sheets and still keep my soul intact?