The dramatic tellings of my not so romance: an unfortunately true story

context and characters

for the sake of privacy I will be changing all of the names but it is based in real life and will be updated accordingly jsyk.

MC - Stella Jensen

Best friend - Cecilia Smith

Best friend's older brother - Jay Smith

Best friend's younger brother - James Smith

Best friend's cousin - Grace McMillan

if there are any new characters they will be introduced at that time

Ok so here's the backstory:

I met Cecilia, Cee, around 1st grade. At the time I went to school with her cousin, Grace. Grace and I were pretty good friends and we also happened to share a birthday. Anyways, I met Cee at Grace's house for the first time. We got along okay but we didn't really become friends until the next year. At the end of 1st grade my school was going to consolidate with another and my parents didn't want me to go to the new school so they transferred me to another school, we will call it St. Matteo's (yes it was a private catholic school, no I am not a millionaire). It just so happened that Cee went to St. Matteo's and so bloomed our wonderful friendship.

We got really close and I now consider her my best friend. But this story isn't about her, so let's get back on track. Lots of stories you read will show the MC as really close to their friend's siblings and while this may be true for some people it is definitely not the case for me. I knew them, yes, but we didn't really hang out. Her older brother is 2 years older so we didn't really have mutual friends, and who really wants to hang out with their sister and her best friend, especially as a 4th grader. And that was fine with me until recently.

Maybe a year or two ago he finally grew taller than me (no judgement we love a short king), got an actual personality, and also started getting closer with Cee. Them getting closer caused us to interact more, now more doesn't mean a lot, maybe like every 3rd time I was at their house. But even that limited interaction was enough for me to start developing feelings.

And as any therapist will tell you, suppressing your feelings doesn't get rid of them, it just pushes them down until there's nowhere left for them to go, then they violently force their way back up. So yeah. Now its kind of an obsession and it is getting slightly out of hand but that's what this is for!