Almost, Always

They say love is loud, but for Eli and Mia, it's lived in the quiet moments; glances across crowded rooms, hands brushing when passing notes, silences that says too much. They've spent years side by side laughing, growing, becoming each other's safe place yet never crossing the invisible line between friendship and something more.

They've always had everything, inside jokes, shared memories, a rhythm only they understand. Everything... except the courage to admit the growing feelings they have for each other.

Best friends of best friends, practically family, they've celebrated life, shared sorrows and watched their friends fall in and out of love while staying quietly stuck in a story of almost. But after all these years, the ache is growing louder, and it's getting harder to keep pretending.

Because maybe the path they've been avoiding is the one they've been meant to walk all along.