The Only Exception (on hold)

Aurora and Cairo have been best friends since they banded together and pushed the kid that made fun of their unusual names in the sandbox. That was in kindergarten, so how did such a strong platonic bond between boy and girl manage to last ten years? More importantly, how did it remain platonic?
The answer is simple: no jealousy, no doubts, no fighting - well, verbal fighting - and most importanly, no romance.
That's right, Rory and Cai have been together almost every day of every month of every year for the past ten years, spent countless nights together, and still managed to keep their friendship strictly platonic.
So, naturally, the beginning of the eleventh year brings with it no forseeable change. Rory beats the boys at everything, Cairo plays the girls, and they wake up beside each other every second morning like they did when they were six - innocently.
But how long will these feelings last when Cairo begins to slip away from Rory, little by little, and into the plastic claws of the school's Queen Bee heartbreaker despite that she so obviously disgusts him? As Rory tries to balance her newly introduced and totally unexpected love life with protecting her best friend's self-destructive heart, she begins to realise it's tearing hers in two opposite directions. The thoughts she voices adamantly state that she's protecting Cairo from himself and Barbie's plastic plot of destruction because it's her job to look out for him - the guy who's been the centre of her life for over a decade. But the other side that gradually grows from a tiny whisper to a full blown shriek seems to think her actions are fuelled by seperate motives entirely...