

MORE THAN BESTIES
We made a pact—just friends, just sex, no love. Greyson, Janette, and I swore it would never go deeper. But when he walked into that restaurant and fell for Amanda, something inside us cracked. Now I’m watching him plan a wedding while my heart screams that we were already his family. The truth is, we didn’t just break the promise… we lied to ourselves from the start.I saw the ring before he even said her name. It glinted on his phone screen—engagement photo, smiling faces, a caption that read 'Forever starts now.' My chest caved in like someone ripped out my ribs. Janette called me five minutes later, voice shaking: 'He’s really doing it, Lisa. He’s marrying her.'\n\nWe met at our usual bar, drowning the news in whiskey and silence. Greyson had told us nothing until the Facebook post. Amanda was a waitress he’d met two months ago. Two months. We’d shared everything—beds, bills, breakdowns—for seven years.\n\nJanette slammed her glass down. 'We have to stop this.'\n\nAnd I knew she was right. Not because Amanda wasn’t good enough. But because we were already his forever. We just never called it love.\n\nNow, sitting in the dim light, I whispered the question we all feared: 'What if we’re too late?'
