Close Enough

William and Est have been best friends for seven years.

They share coffees, passwords, apartments facing each other, and a level of intimacy that everyone around them seems to understand better than they do.

Est has known for a long time that he loves William. What he doesn't know is that William loves him too, and that, precisely because of it, he is far too afraid to turn the most important friendship of his life into something that could end.

Between kisses that should never happen, feelings that never find enough courage to be spoken, and boundaries that are beginning to hurt, Est realizes that loving someone doesn't mean waiting forever.

And William will discover, too late, that keeping someone close was never the same as choosing them.