In which a guy falls in love with a girl that's no good for him

☆ "ⁱᵗ'ˢ ᵒⁿˡʸ ᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵇᵉᵉⁿ ʸᵒᵘ. ⁱᵗ'ˡˡ ᵃˡʷᵃʸˢ ᵇᵉ ʸᵒᵘ." ༻✩☼☽✩༺ 𝐛𝐫𝐲𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐬 and 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨 have been best friends since they were kids, and bryn is insistent that that is all they will ever be: just friends. but spending the summer with chris and his brothers may cause old feelings to rise, and bryn isn't sure she is ready to face how she really feels about her best friend. ✫彡 ᵇᵉˢᵗ ᶠʳⁱᵉⁿᵈˢ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵃˡʷᵃʸˢ ᵇᵉᶜᵒᵐᵉ ˡᵒᵛᵉʳˢ. ʳⁱᵍʰᵗ? ミ✩ 🍊 christopher sturniolo x female oc 🍊 mature language 🍊 no smut

two best friends that don't even realise they're falling in love, until...

────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ────── After years and years of pining, Chris decided to completely cut Sarah out of his life, really hurting her in the process. A year later he is forced to spend the whole summer together. ────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──────

❛ it's exhausting, pretending to hate you. . . ❜ 𓂃 ⊹ ࣪ ˖ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍰 ‧₊˚ . . . 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 remembers the day, the very moment her friendship with 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 morphed into cruel, unrelenting hatred. even still, nobody knows exactly what went down that caused this sudden switch. though when a girlfriend is added to the mix, things turn from bad to worse, thus forcing the pair to finally acknowledge feelings both of them have kept hidden for years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ chris sturniolo x fem!oc © aelinslegend 𝜗ৎ 2022.

-'𝜗𝜚'- 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ⎯ chris sturniolo winds up messaging a stranger without realising his mistake and somehow finds himself falling for her the more they get to know one another, their meeting destined in unexplainable ways. their shared flustered states are obvious to everyone beside one another until the eye contact begins driving them crazy and they have no choice but to leap into the heavy hammering of their chests. -'𝜗𝜚'- 𝗢𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ⎯ verena mason receives a message from a not so stranger on a random day and somehow ends up falling in love with everything about him, all the way from his captivating smile down to the goodness of his heart that she just can't seem to ignore despite how terrified she is of being hurt once more. her fears only seem to dissipate through his words of reassurance and she can't help the beautiful love that sprouts within her chest at the mere thought of his persona. 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 ⎯ chris sturniolo ✘ fem!oc 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 ⎯ social media | real life 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 ⎯ 07/08/22 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 ⎯ 14/08/22 𝗿𝗲w𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 ⎯ 30/05/23 to 11/07/23 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧, ©XIXZAYN.

"i love you forever and ever" "pinky promise?"

it's soul-crushing, really. that the one he loves is the one he can't have. chris hates piper (no, he doesn't).

❝ 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 ❞ 𝙋𝙐𝘽𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙃𝙀𝘿『 4.23.23 』 𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙎𝙃𝙀𝘿『 』 ✗ 𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙉𝙂 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙉𝙏 . . . . 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 ; 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦, 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 . . . .

realisation. only if chris had realised it quicker,he would've had her. but it was too late for anything to be done. so now he's gotta pretend to hate her.