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My Best Friend's Girl

My Best Friend's Girl

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-01-26
By:  Leigh HarperOngoing
Language: English
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Synopsis

Contemporary

First-Person POV

Drama

Independent

Possessive

Protective

Forgiveness

Regret

Second Chance

After two months of surviving on her own, Kieran returns to Concord, stepping straight back into the suffocating warmth of family love she isn’t sure she’s ready for. Fresh from a funeral and carrying wounds no one fully understands, she’s greeted by watchful grandparents, anxious relatives, and questions about a future that no longer feels like hers to decide. Concord is familiar, comforting even, but it’s also filled with memories she hasn’t healed from. Chief among them is Lucas, the boy who was once her best friend and then, without warning, walked away. No explanation. No goodbye. Just silence that hurt deeper than any fight ever could. His absence lingers, heavy with unanswered questions and unspoken feelings Kieran has never allowed herself to name. Seeking space, Kieran escapes to her favorite spot by the lake, hoping for peace. Instead, fate intervenes. The unmistakable growl of a motorcycle announces Lucas’s return, changed, bigger, sharper, and undeniably no longer the boy she remembers. One glance is enough to shatter the fragile calm she’s built. The past isn’t buried. It’s right next door. As summer begins, Kieran is forced to confront unresolved hurt, broken trust, and the dangerous pull of someone who once knew her better than anyone else. Some friendships don’t end cleanly...and some feelings refuse to stay buried.

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13 Chapters
Kieran - Back to Concord
The cab rolls down the street, my body rocking with each advance the car makes toward my family’s home. Three houses down, I spot the herd of family members waiting for me on the front lawn.I spot my Nana first, waiting with his hands in his pockets to take my bags – and my life – inside. My Nani has her arm interlinked with his, the look on her face one I’ve never seen before. It scares me.The taxi stops closer to the neighbors’ yard, giving me a moment longer to take in my family before facing them. Khala Willa and her husband are with my grandparents, and so are their sons. Mausi Aarna and her husband wait in the driveway, both of them looking anxious. Before the funeral, I hadn’t seen them in years.The cab’s door is pulled open and a hand grabs my arm, pulling me out of the car and against a warm body. My grandmother is quick for her age. She presses my face into her chest, running her hand up and down my back in soothing motions. I wriggle out of her grip and my hand goes to f
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Lucas - What the Hell Did I Miss?
My head pounds as I place my helmet on the back of my bike. I’ve been aimlessly riding around town for the last three hours and I desperately need something to eat.As I make my way onto the lawn, something in my periphery catches my attention. Or I should say someone. I turn and see her sitting in her old spot on her bench, stopping me dead in my tracks.She looks different from last summer. Her hair is longer, lighter, too. She’d always kept hers short while I’d kept mine long. It looks good, though. Anything looks good on her.Anything except the look on her face. From all the way over here, I can tell that something’s different. Wrong. The fact that she’s wearing a sweatshirt in this heat makes me all the more cautious. Kieran doesn’t wear sweatshirts during this time of day, especially not if she’s in that spot.“Almost didn’t recognize you,” she says, getting to her feet. “Where’d your hair go?”I meet her at the fence. “Thought it was time for a change,” I say with a shrug. “It
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Lucas - Dad's Here.
He’s here.From my bedroom, I hear the car pull into the driveway. Couldn’t he have waited until after I’d left for work? I think about disappearing through the back door and sneaking into the garage to get my bike but ultimately decide to get it over with.Pulling off my durag, I make my way downstairs. The sound of hushed voices spill from the living room, where he’s asking Aunt Maggie where I am and if i plan on coming downstairs. She tells him that I’m upstairs and then there are footsteps headed toward the stairs.“Xavier,” she says, stopping him. “Be nice to him,”“He’s my kid, Margaret,”“Yeah? Who raised him?”A smile stretches across my face. Aunt Maggie rarely stands up to him. He doesn’t answer her, of course. To do that, he’d have to admit to all the ways he screwed up as a father. And he wouldn’t do that.I make my way into the kitchen at the same time he does. Our eyes meet and his eyebrows raise, likely because of how different I look since the last time he saw me. That
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Kieran - Out of Arm's Reach
I’m up early on Monday morning, grateful to be getting out of the house. I have breakfast before the rest of the family is up and grab my backpack before making the trek to Miss Caldwell’s diner on 7th. The morning sun isn’t as hot as it will be this afternoon, so the sweatshirt isn’t bothering me yet.The walk to the diner takes close to ten minutes as I’m not rushing. I’m so used to this town, the people, but everything is off.Townspeople I grew up around are making their ways around town, going to work, walking their dogs or going for their morning runs.Many of the people I pass give me small smiles; pitying, sympathetic smiles. I hate it. I don’t need anyone’s pity. What I need is to be treated the way I was before. Right now, looking around at the people staring, the people pausing to gawk, I fear it may be an impossible thing to ask.When I make it to the diner, I can breathe properly. I step inside and let the scent of breakfast foods envelope me. Miss Caldwell’s diner always
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Lucas - Ten Years Too late
Breakfast is quiet. Aunt Maggie sits across from me like she always does, and my father sits next to her. No one has said a single word since we sat down. This is highly uncomfortable.Aunt Maggie and I almost never sit in silence. She’s a talker. She tells me about her plans; plans to renovate the house, plans with friends, plans for the diner’s menu. And now that he’s here, she’s quiet.“Lucas,”I try my best not to grimace. “What?”“Luke,” Aunt Maggie says, a warning.I take a breath. “Sorry. Yes, Xavier?”“Luke,” she says again.“It’s fine, Margret,” he says, giving me a hard look. “Lucas, I’d like to continue the conversation we had yesterday,”“No,”“Lucas,”“I already told you that I’m not moving in with you,”“You’d rather live on your own than with your own family?”I resist the urge to laugh. “What family? My family’s in this town. In this neighborhood. Or are you forgetting the part where you tossed me aside like I meant nothing to you?”The reminder does nothing. Absolutel
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Kieran - Back to Friends
Wednesday is a bit of a slow day at work and I'll be able to take a break earlier than usual. I hadn’t had breakfast this morning, so it’s perfect.There are only three people in the diner right now; a group of girls in a corner booth. I recognize all of them from around town, but I don’t think we’ve ever spoken. They happen to be a part of the few people who haven’t stared or given me sympathy looks.The door to the kitchen opens and Lucas walks out, taking off his apron as he does. As he passes the booth, two of the girls stare while the other rolls her eyes. It’s a little funny as that would be my reaction too.“Hey,” he says, stopping at my booth. “Mind if I sit?”“Would it matter if I did?”He lifts a shoulder, planting himself across from me. “Whatcha thinking about?”“Absolutely nothing,”“Really?” he cocks his head. “Because you have that look on your face,”“What look?”“The look you get when you’re drowning in your own thoughts,”“Funny,”He reaches over and snatches the hal
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Kieran - The Ride Back.
Lucas pulls my hands from his shoulders and wraps my arms around his torso, pulling me flush against his back in the process. My God, he has grown. So much.The realization, paired with the feel of his muscles under my hands, does something to my insides. Okay, now that is a strange, foreign, unwanted feeling.I push the feeling and thoughts away, telling myself that the lapse in judgment is due to the lack of food in my stomach as well as the lack of sleep I’ve gotten this week. I’m simply sleep deprived. Yes, that’s it.At the ice cream parlor a few minutes outside of the town’s limits, Lucas stops his bike in the street. I’m not entirely surprised that Lucas chose this shop. When he got his first bike, we rode out here almost every day before we went to hang out at Devon’s.He goes inside to get the ice cream while I sit on a bench where he’s bike is parked in case someone thinks about stealing the thing. I don’t think anyone would, but Lucas has his reservations.While I wait, I t
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Lucas - When the Noise Doesn't Work
I need this week to end.I feel like I’m suffocating, like someone is pressing their heavy as fuck shoe on my chest, keeping me from being able to take a proper breath.Anxiety crawls up my neck every fucking day and the only thing that’ll make it better right now is a drink. And the only place I can get shit faced without being scolded or berated for it is at Devon’s.After work on Thursday, I text him to find out of he’s home. He doesn’t text back, which either means that he isn’t home or that he’s already drunk in his backyard. I make my way over and hope that he’s not too drunk. I don’t want to have to drink alone.At Devon’s, I park my bike in the driveway and venture into the backyard with my helmet in hand. I hear the commotion before I make it past the driveway.There are at least twenty people in the backyard, littered around the swimming pool, crowded around the bonfire pit. I scan the crowd for Devon, who is standing in a corner making love eyes at a girl who is most defini
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Kieran - Almost A Promise
One especially infuriating thing about Kieran Darjee is that she thinks she knows every fucking thing. She thinks she knows exactly how I feel and what I think. If she’d bother to ask every once in a while, she’d know just how wrong she is.Disregarding however I might feel about her, why would I not want her to be at the celebration? She’s been my best friend since we were kids and we’ve always gone to the celebration together, so why would that change now? We’ve let bygones be bygones and are choosing to ignore the fact that we were estranged for two years, so ideally, nothing has changed between us. Or am I expecting too much?I shake my head. “It’s none of my business,”“What isn’t?”I release a sigh and shake my head again. If I tell her what I know, she’s going to tell her best friend about it, who is then going to break up with Devon, as she should. Devon will be pissed at me for airing out his business, though. And while I don’t agree with what he’s doing, I don’t think I coul
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Kieran - Caught Off Guard
I wake up on Saturday morning with newfound optimism. I’m not quite sure where it came from, but I decide to embrace it for the sake of my sanity. Since the summer started and I moved here, every day has been the same, the days starting to blend into each other. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family and I appreciate their love and support. I enjoy spending time with them, especially Drew. However, it would be nice if the friends I used to have would respond to the messages I’ve sent them. I’m not mad about it. I wouldn’t know what to say or how to act around me if I were them. Even so, I wouldn’t avoid a friend I’ve had for years for no reason. It’s okay, though, because I still have Lex. And Luca. Something happens to my stomach the second the image of Luca passes through my mind. That’s new. Not necessarily the feeling, but the person it is directed at. Luca and I are barely friends again and now my body is reacting to the mere thought of him? No. I get for the day, pushing all t
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