friends, right?... (c.sturniolo)

Matt and Chris (17y/o) are best friends who grow up as close as brothers. As the years pass they struggle to navigate their evolving relationship/feelings for each other and choose between what they want vs what the world wants. *short chapters/parts *can be read as a stand alone without knowing the sturniolos, not significant to storyline

𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 ✦ꕤ𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦✦ꕤ 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 + smuts 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴

in which! he's fighting the continuously growing feelings he has for one of his closest friends. or in which! she realizes she has feelings for him but she doesn't want to admit it in fear of losing him.

𝙄𝙉 𝙒𝙃𝙄𝘾𝙃 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬. 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨, 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨. ━━━━ ❝ 𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢❜𝐦 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫. 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞. 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢'𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. ❞ ❝ 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫.❞

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

--------𝑘𝑖𝑦𝑜𝑚𝑖 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑦𝑜𝑚𝑖 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠. 𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑙．𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑘𝑖𝑦𝑜𝑚𝑖 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚．𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡----- 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡？ ----under editing i would say!

𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳? Because who doesn't love a good enemies to lovers? 𝐍𝐎 𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆!

✈ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥'𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥

𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐜 --- 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦 @𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘸. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳. --- 𝐎𝐑 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘯. 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥. 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝟐𝟑/𝟕/𝟐𝟑 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝟑/𝟏𝟎/𝟐𝟑