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“I’m a guy, and one of my best friends back in middle and high school was a girl (let’s call her Audrey). We both played basketball and had a fun, competitive friendship involving many one-on-one matches, HORSE, etc. She lived a short bike ride away, so we played ball, ate at each other’s houses, were friendly with each other’s parents, hung out and watched movies, etc. We each dated other people, and it was cool.”
“There was always an undercurrent of attraction, which we were surprisingly mature about, looking back. In 8th grade, we made a pact that we’d see each other as brother and sister, and that was that. We stuck to it, dated other people, and it was cool. She even dated one of my other best friends, which didn’t impact our friendship. Everyone was cool.
Toward the end of senior year, I broke up with my longtime girlfriend and was a bit of a wreck. Audrey invited me over to play ball. It was a very hot spring day, and after playing a bit, we went inside to cool off.
Her parents weren’t home, and I noticed that she was acting a little bit differently toward me. Up in my face with a lot of playful trash talk, always physically close. She asked if I wanted to watch a movie, which was something we always did in her bedroom so her parents could have some peace in the living room. I said fine, and she already had a movie picked out, one which I’d never heard of: Wild Things. I went into that movie completely clueless about it, and…yeah. It’s Wild Things.
She obviously picked that movie for a reason. Right after the first sex scene, she leaned over and kissed me, and then, before I even fully processed what was going on, we were having sex. She seemed happy, and we cuddled like lovers for the rest of the movie.
Predictably, things got a little weird after that. As maturely as we’d handled things before, now neither of us knew what to do, especially since we would be attending college in different states. I knew that I didn’t want to have a long-distance girlfriend despite my feelings for Audrey, and I think she felt that way, too. We never hooked up again and didn’t hang out much after that. We stayed in touch for a few years, and that was that.”
—u/wafflesareforever
