"She's my best friend, of course I love her",
"He's my best friend, but I fell in love with him".
A story about two childhood friends growing up together and facing the difficulties of love together. They do practically everything together and they...
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE STORY OF the grim reaper and the mortal woman? The woman, who made Death himself fall into her feet and beg for her love.
The story begins back in 1700s, when the Plague takes place. There was a young woman in her early 20s. She was so beautiful and so wanted, every man turned his head after she walked past him. They begged her for a little bit of her time and attention, they offered her all the gold they had just to hold her hand. But she never gave her hand to anyone.
She claimed, that only true love can win her heart and the man she falls for will be a very special one. Unfortunately for her the Plague didn't past by her and she fell sick on her bed with no chance of living. The whole city was devastated, when they found out how sick she was and how little time she had.
When it was finally time for her to die, the one and only grim reaper appeared in her room that same night. He raised his axe to take her soul, but when the moon light fell on her face and he saw her beauty he stopped. He couldn't bring himself to kill such pure and beautiful woman, so he gave her 2 more years to live.
It's was a miracle, when the woman cured on the next day. The doctors couldn't believe it, no logical explanation could be given. The only important thing that day was how lively her face was.
The grim reaper appeared into her dreams two nights later and revealed himself to her. He told her, that he saved her life in order for her to give it to him. He wanted not only her soul, but her heart too. The woman refused to marry him, because he wasn't 'the real love', so the grim reaper begged for her to give him those 2 years to prove to her his love. And she agreed.
He gave her the world, as a present he released all the souls of all sinners and swore to her he'll cure the Plague. When the time came and the two years finally passed, the grim reaper asked the beautiful woman what she feels and does she want to be by his side forever. The woman fell in love the moment she saw him that first night, but she never told him, because she wanted to see, if he's willing to change for her.
When she confessed her love for him he took her mortality and walked her through dead to be with her forever. This was the story of how purines and beauty changed dead.
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"That's just a stupid fairytale", I turn to face my best friend, Hanma Shuji, sitting on the ground next to me looking at my mom. His curiosity hidden behind those big golden eyes and that pounding face he always makes, when he wants to make a point, "no one can beat dead".
"How can you be so sure, Shuji?", my mom puts the book in her lap and chuckles at my best friend's face, "what, if one day you'll end up changing for love?", she asked him.
"Ewww", he pretends like he's throwing up and I giggled a little.
Back then I didn't even had an idea how this story might affect my life. We were just stupid kids, what we knew about love back then?
Me and Hanma been friends since we were born. Our moms has been inseparable since they met in college and that's why I had the chance to meet my one and only best friend, my worst bully and my precious friend.
Me and Hanma has always been different, when it comes to social status. He's more social and talkative, while I'm more of 'reading smut in my room till 5 am' type of person. His likeable character has always been a big privilege, that I was kinda envious growing up, Hanma has it all. He's good at sports, he's smart and very flirty. Very, very flirty. He likes to tease me all the time and sometimes it annoys me so much. That jerk is so full of himself most of the times.
Even tho he can be a pain in the ass, we somehow managed to build strong and good friendship over the years. He has been my rock, my emotional support system and my diary over the years, I was for him too. I've never thought that our friendship might change.
..until we turned 14..and I fell in love with him.
I'm sure I'm not the first girl, who falls in love with her male best friend and I'm sure I won't be the last one. It happened without my consent, I didn't want to fall in love with Shuji, it just..happened. All this teasing and jokes, that one day we'll end up married with two kids sounded ridiculous, but one evening..one goddamn evening..
Me and Shuji were laying on me bed planning another movie night. It was exactly the night before our first year of high school. I was looking through all the horror movies, that I had saved for the past few months, when with the corner of my eyes I saw Hanma smiling.
"Boy, why are you smiling like a clown? Have the circus came to finally get you to clean after the elephants?", I joked as usual. Insulting each other was our love language. We always bullied each other.
"Don't be jealous, that I have friends, who like to text me, baby", he looked at me and threw a wink at me, like he always does, "actually, if you like to know, I'm texting a girl".
For some reason, when I heard 'a girl' I felt kinda uneasy. I froze on the spot as I was listening to Shuji bragging about the girl he met at summer camp. He called her 'beautiful, gorgeous, pretty, nice, sweet' and every nice word about her felt like a knife in my heart. I couldn't explain it, but it hurt me pretty bad.
"Don't be jealous, sunshine, you're still my number one", he teased me once again and I forced myself to laugh, but this time..it wasn't funny. It wasn't enjoyable at all.
But why? Why am I feeling like that? He is not tied up for me, he can do whatever he wants and date girls, right? But then..why? The answer was pretty obvious-I liked my best friend. No, liked is a weak word, I loved him.
That was the day I found out I have feelings for my long time best friend. Yes, I have crush on the same boy I watched eating his own buggers and shaving for the first time. I wanna slap myself for allowing it to happen.
I thought it's going to go away, but oh boy I was so wrong. It's been two years since then and we are 16 now. You guessed it right, my crush on my best friend haven't disappeared. Hanma has a girlfriend now, the same girl he texted on that evening. Their relationship is going well and I'm happy for them, but at the same time I wish they split.
I haven't told Shuji about my crush of course and I was hoping he won't notice. The only ones, who know about my crush are a couple of my friends and classmates-Draken, Mikey, who found out because he heard me and Draken talk about it, Chifuyu and Mitsuya, and last, but not least Emma and Hina. It was obvious to everyone except Shuji apparently. Even Kisaki, Shuji's best friend, who I very much dislike, asked me about it a couple of times.
I'm trying so hard to keep our friendship the same as before, but lately it's getting harder for me. Shuji started flirting and teasing me even more..not in a very friendly way and it makes me go crazy. Shuji has always been like that with me since we entered puberty, but I've never thought much about it. Now is a big ass problem, because I can't stop thinking about my best friend..in every possible way.
