I lay beside her that night, yet I barely slept.After returning to the city, life quickly fell back into its usual rhythm. Work, home, meals, sleep... Everything seemed unchanged, as if that trip had been nothing more than an ordinary getaway.However, something had quietly shifted.Shanine seemed to like Phoebe even more after the trip. She brought up the vacation from time to time, praising how considerate Phoebe had been and how thoughtful she was. She even started enthusiastically planning where the three of us should travel next.Whenever she spoke like that, all I could do was nod along, while a tight feeling crept into my chest.She did not know that the very trust she felt was the one thing I found hardest to bear.Phoebe, on the other hand, became much more careful. She no longer messaged me first, and in our group chats, she deliberately kept a polite, normal distance.However, sometimes, late at night, my phone would light up with a message from her, something that s
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