Secrets are meant to be kept.

Lily.

As I walked away from Noah, his words echoing in my mind, I couldn't shake off the feeling of betrayal. How could he snap at me like that? After everything we've been through together, all the laughter, the shared secrets, the late-night conversations, we managed to sneak in... It felt like a punch to the gut. I thought I knew him, trusted him, but now it seemed like I didn't know him at all.

"I can't believe he said that," I muttered to myself, kicking a pebble along the sidewalk. "He never even bothered to tell me about his girlfriend. How long has he been hiding her from me?"

The more I thought about it, the angrier I became. Noah was supposed to be my best friend, the one person I could always rely on, the one person who had taken an interest in me asides his mother. But now, it felt like he had been keeping secrets from me all along and to top it off, he had the nerve to lash out at me when I simply asked him about it.

As I reached the hallway, I found a bench and sank down