No We Can't Be Friends Novels & Stories

’ He nodded, releasing my face, ‘Right. ‘So tell me, what is really bothering you?’ He looked away and sighed. I made him look at me, ‘Everett,’ my eyes flickered between his, ‘the truth, please.’ ‘We can’t be friends after you turn 18…’ That was the knife twist in my chest. Blinking, I questioned if he was serious, but the sadness in his eyes was an indication enough, ‘Wh… What the hell do you mean we can’t be friends?’ I asked, a wave of fury consuming me.

he asks, like he really wants to know. "Because I don't want to," I easily respond, but he opens his mouth to refute it. I lift my hand to put it over his mouth without thinking and he hisses in pain, "Shit, sorry. Listen, the reason why friends don't have sex is because it leads to uncomfortable situations and complications I don't want in my life. I really like you, so let's just be friends. Real friends, without benefits."

It made the words I was about to say a lot more harder. "I can't, Axel. " I said finally. "I can't do this. I—We can be friends. " his eyes dimmed at the mention of the word 'friend', but I couldn't stop now. "That's all we can be. The other thing..... We can't have that. " He stared at me a while, but he didn't look as hopeless as he had a few minutes ago. "That's progress then. You willing to be friends, I mean. Maybe with time—"

She narrowed her eyes in a daze before she suddenly shook her head hastily. “I have a few friends and colleagues, Dad, and I know anybody can hate me and do that to me. But the only people I’m seeing, for now, are Rose and Cindy, and they can never do that to me,” She said confidently. She trusts her best friends so much, so she would rather stay with them for the time being.

please. "We're sorry, Tiarra, but the truth is that we can't be friends with you because you're so incredibly boring! There's nothing exciting about you and yes, we just forced ourselves to be friends with you but It's better that we be friends with Magie instead of you because we realized that she's better than you."

And hence I won't get to force any name on it. " Friends?" " Fucking friends." I groaned. We both know we are never becoming friends. Never fucking ever.

“And I am not allowed to go back to the resort…” “I am sorry for…” “We can ease the hard toxic bond between us a bit… A friend's day out could help. We are not friends, you won't take me as one, but we can just pretend we are one until we are back to Vegas.” I added, my palm sweaty against that fork. “I don't know how to be a friend,” he deadpanned.

Lester stops us from arguing. “Yes, I do not usually tell everything to all of you because I am not like that person. Is it my fault that I don’t like sharing about myself with everyone? I am also like this to our other friends. If you don’t trust me, this friendship is useless because we can’t try to trust each other.”

"It's just that, I don't want Aiden to be in this condition. Just seeing him laying at the bed, makes my heart ache," "I can feel your pain. We all are his friends after all and we share the same pain. It's your duty as a friend that you believe in him fighting for his life and waking up soon. We need to stay by his side because we are his only friends," Something about the word 'friend' made me alot uncomfortable. That's why I just nodded while smiling at him and turned my head towards the car's window. Aiden and I are not friends anymore. We are more than that. But no one knows about it.

I asked as we slowed down. "Not really," Aiden answered. "Nope," Abby's answer was more direct, and she says it in such a casual way like it does not bother her at all. "Why? Are they mean to you guys?" "They don't talk to us, so we don't talk to them either," Aiden said. "Aunt Mia said if someone does not want to be your friend, you can't force them." Abby shrugged. Who would not want to be friends with these adorable bundles of joy? But that was a conversation for later as it was our turn to pull over.