Peleg_lovesfreya
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Lilie Williams and Malachi Barton have been best friends since they met on the set of Villains of Valley View.
Through years of distance, airport goodbyes, shared chaos, and Lilie's ongoing battle with endometriosis, Malachi has always been the one who stays - sitting with her through the worst flares, running to stores for the right pads, letting her cry into his shoulder without needing an explanation.
When they both find themselves single and missing physical intimacy, they decide to add friends-with-benefits to their relationship.
The rule is clear: no romantic feelings. Just sex. And if either of them wants to stop, they go straight back to being best friends.
What starts as a practical arrangement becomes harder to keep clean. Living under the same roof, falling into old habits of care, and blurring the lines they swore they wouldn't cross, Lilie and Malachi start to learn that some rules are easier to make than they are to keep.
A story about friendship, boundaries, chronic illness, and what happens when best friends stop pretending the line between them is still clear.