Just Friends Be Yourself Novels & Stories

God, how did I even become friends with these people? "What happened to the no sex before marriage rule?" "That was my parents' rule, not mine. I'm almost thirty and old enough to make my own decisions." Serenity sat up straight, clearly in shock now. I assumed her laptop was sitting on her office table. "Okay, I know I've always told you to live a little, but this? This is insane." Her eyes were wide now. "Don't get offended, but are you sure he's the one you want this with? The way he treats you…”

"Plan? Probably use all my savings to buy a very nice dress, shoes, and bags with this badass shade that would have 'Fuck you Slade written over it, and then go hungry for like what? A year? Sleeping under a bridge after Mrs. Peggy would have tossed me out of her house would be the most thoughtful plan I've ever had." "Xena," he said exasperatedly. "That's not it." "Then, what is?" I asked, folding my arms across my breasts. "You don't need to impress him you know? Just be yourself alright? Don't be more than you or less than you, just be you." Me? Let me be me. Do you know what being me is? Oh well, I'll tell you. It means staying up late doing copywriting jobs and then having your Boss sho

On my wedding day, I had just stepped onto the aisle when a ripple of laughter spread through the crowd. "Take it all off, and she's got a body on her! Look at her face, like she's enjoying it!" I turned toward the voices and saw my ex-husband's photos of me blown up across the giant screen. They kept changing, one after another, explicit and impossible to ignore. All around the room, phones were already coming up as people started taking pictures. My hands began to shake. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my mother collapse. Behind Leon Coleman, Allison Fleming slapped her thigh and raised her voice, loud enough for everyone to hear. "Oh, wow. Leon showed these to the guys yesterda

“Family doesn’t usually stare at each other the way you two have been. I’m not blind, you know. If there’s something going on, you can tell me. I’m not a kid anymore.” Mia’s heart pounded. She leaned forward, looking Lily directly in the eyes with what she hoped was complete sincerity. “Lily, I love you. You’re my best friend. If there was anything serious going on, I would tell you. I’m just excited about the trip. The ocean, the yacht, the freedom… it’s making me feel things I haven’t felt before. That’s all.” Alexander nodded, backing her up. “Exactly. We’re all relaxing and enjoying ourselves. Let’s not overanalyze a good time.”

He said, bluntly, then turned his stare away from her face. "So, Logan huh?" Becky too knew it wasn't working out. "Fuck!" She lowered her head and whispered under her breath as she got no reply from him. But he heard her. "Fuck?" He asked with bright eyes—they were definitely blue. "Oh, nothing. It's just," she said, then bursted out like the parrot that she was. "I'm like here on my own even though it's my birthday, because my stupid friend couldn't make it—she had a date at Paris with her new boo—and I was just hoping I could have at least some fun--"

Others might mistake us as a couple but we were very close friends. "See, like any girl, date anyone but remember that don't change yourself for them. If they love you just the way you're then it's great but if she doesn't then you can find someone else." I said because I knew how pathetic it felt that you keep trying to make someone like you. At a point, you would realize that not only have you lost your true self but also the people who loved you will be away from you because of someone who never wanted you. "Are you okay?" He asked because I just zoned out. Nodding I smiled as he took my hand in his.

He sat beside me and threw a sandwich to my lap "For you, I was looking for you but you're here" "Why are you looking for me?" I asked "We're friends right? Besides, I like hanging out with you more than with them. I can be myself" He said as he leaned to the tree "It's better to be yourself than be someone else to fit yourself in with them" "Yeah but what can I say? I need them to get into the basketball team. It's my dream" "You know you should go for it. Prove your parents that you can be a basketball player. It's not too late"

"You're still together, madly in love, apparently both secure enough in your relationship to fuck the same guy, and in Bella's case, abuse me as a bed warmer, to me that sounds a long way towards 'working out', if you ask me." "True," I admit, then snicker at his way of summing things up. "It's just words anyway. For us. But I really mean it when I say, just be yourself. We've seen you at your best and worst plenty of times and still find it in ourselves to like you, so just don't deliberately fuck up and we'll be good."

I don't feel like the same naive girl that I was before that night. "Just be yourself, don't try to be someone else. I like you, they will too" His words soothe me instantly, the rocky ocean churning up my insides has become a calm, lazy river. With his wealthy friends who he doesn't like; I'm told to be who he needs me to be. But with his family, the people who know him best and care the most about him; being myself is more than enough. I nod my head with a large smile on my face, my cheeks have begun to subtly ache from all the smiling I've done today, maybe Paris wasn't such a bad idea after all.