She'd avoided him that day. He'd asked her out to dinner in a very advanced manner. She knew what he was doing. He was rebounding from his ex with his best friend.
She loved him, just not in the way she wanted to. She just couldn't catch feelings. But when she let him down, she let him down easy.
Best friends simply don't use each other. They use each other in the way they're supposed to care and help one another. Not in the way where one can easily tell that she is going to be used. So she did let him down easy.
His ex let him down easy as his best friend did. He didn't know why she had done it. Why she had broken up with him. His best friend knew though. She'd seen the way his ex looked at her. In a way that was taken for jealousy first. Then hatred. Then she realised it was something more. Something curious and mysterious.
She'd figured out why his ex broke up with him. And she was afraid he would find out.
