It's just platonic

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Ronan West was relaxing on the leather couch that was against the one wall in the living room of the apartment he shared with his best friend and roommate Sophia. His eyes were fixated on the current soccer game when the apartment door opened and in came a struggling Sophia. She sighed when she saw her best friend on the couch, knowing he was too involved in the game that he wasn't getting up anytime soon.

"Hey Ro, I'm home," she announced loudly enough in hopes he would hear her.

Ronan snapped out of his daze thankfully, turning his head in Sophia's direction then guilt washed over him when he saw the many bags.

"Oh shit, hang on Soph I'm comin' to help," he said quickly as he hopped over the arm of the couch.

"My hero," Sophia retaliated in a sarcastic tone, rolling her eyes at him.

Ronan grabbed the heavier bags from her hands, placing a hand over his chest and feigned hurt. "Ouch Soph, trying to cut down a guy's confidence much?"

Sophia playfully shoved him. "As if, now go put those in the bedroom please."

"Of course love," he agreed before kissing her cheek gently and headed off to their bedroom.

To anyone outside of the apartment and in public, you would think that Ronan and Sophia were another young couple in love except that they weren't a couple exactly. Their relationship was completely and entirely platonic, it had been for the past three years. It started off as them being friends in the beginning and then Ronan started developing feelings for Sophia but she didn't feel as deeply the way he did so they had thankfully come to a compromise. After some time, they got into a platonic relationship and it was the best thing for their friendship. They were closer than ever and eventually had moved in together to make everything work out better. And if anyone had asked Ronan if he was in love with Sophia, he wouldn't deny it for a second. She was everything to him and more, everything he could've asked for...she was his universe and he wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.

As Ronan finished putting away the bags in the bedroom, his attention was grabbed by the picture frame that sat on top of his dresser. It was a picture of him and Sophia from three years ago, he couldn't help but smile as his fingers lightly traced it. Suddenly Sophia walked into their room, seeing Ronan frozen in place and looking at the picture. She carefully walked up to him, touching his shoulder which pulled him out of his trance.

"Hey, you okay?" Sophia asked with concern. "I thought you would've just dropped the bags off in here and come right back."

A blush fell onto Ronan's face as he laughed sheepishly. "Yeah, I'm okay. I uh I got distracted by the photo."

Sophia leaned against him, wrapping her arm around him and smiled as she joked, "yeah I can see that clearly."

"What can I say? You caught me red handed," Ronan admitted, throwing his hands into the air.

"Alright you sarcastic jerk, come on," she urged him by grabbing his hand and dragged him out of the bedroom.

Ronan nearly fell on his face when Sophia dragged me out and he laughed, "what's the rush Soph bear?"

"Dinner with my parents tonight, remember?" she reminded him, playfully pinching his cheek.

Ronan pulled away, smacking her hands. "Yeah, yeah, I remembered well okay I kinda forgot. But it'll be nice to see your parents again."

"Oh yeah totally and the entire time they'll go on and on about how we should be dating," Sophia retorted as she nailed him with a look.

Ronan stroked her cheek gently, pulling her close to his chest and wrapped both athletically toned arms around her small waist. His hazel eyes poured deep into her blue-green ocean eyes, the ocean and the sand meeting in the middle. Sophia was slightly shorter than him, looked up at him as she placed her arms over his shoulders as she felt all her worry melt away.