LMAnderson
They've been seven for as long as any of them can remember. Imogen. Freya. Maya. Theo. Elliot. Ben. Bax. Seven best friends who grew up together, survived school together, and promised that growing up would never change them. And then there's The Lodge. Hidden at the bottom of Imogen's garden, it has always belonged to them. Their Friday tradition. Their escape. The place filled with years of bad decisions, inside jokes, drunken nights, firsts, fights, secrets, and memories nobody else would understand. No matter what happened during the week, Friday meant The Lodge, and nobody missed Friday. But they're not kids anymore. At nineteen and twenty, university, relationships and the expectations of the lives waiting for them are beginning to pull them in different directions. The things they once told each other without hesitation are becoming the things they hide. Feelings are getting complicated, lines are being crossed, and some secrets have the power to hurt more than just the people keeping them. Because when you've spent your whole life believing seven is unbreakable, you don't notice the cracks at first. Not until one secret becomes two, one lie becomes another, and the people who once knew everything about each other start wondering how much they really know at all. The Lodge was always the place where they could be themselves, but growing up might mean discovering they don't know who "us" is anymore.