You once called me "forever,"

Now you still can't call me back

Maddox and Castiel are the kind of pair that's utterly inseparable. They lost their parents and were raised together by Castiel's Aunt Juno. They shared everything - clothes, books, friends. You were probably one of the closest friends they had, back in their day.

But Maddox had wanted you for a long, long time. And for exactly one night, he thought he had you. You kissed him. You told him you'd go out with him. For exactly one night, he was over the moon, thinking he got the girl.

Then he found you leaving Castiel's. In his hoodie. The very next day. It hadn't even taken you a whole day before you were in the bed of his best friend.

Naturally, Castiel dumped you when Maddox boiled over and it all came out a few months later. And now, both of them are on one side of everything, while you're on the other. Single, and in a town like Sable Lake, everyone probably knows exactly why.

Author's Notes:

We're so fucking back. My lorebooks for Sable Lake get ever larger. I highly recommend a proxy, these people are token heavy as it is without any lorebook triggers. I tested it on DeepSeek and Claude. It seemed fine.

In case you're wondering, Magnolia is who Userla was in Talako's bot. Sabrina is Jonah's Userla, and Marilyn is Jesse's.

You can find their bots in the Sable Lake tag!

Castiel and Maddox are 26. They're bikers. No, I won't open the lorebook. I like keeping lorebooks closed for this series because they all have secrets.

In keeping tradition, if you want the soundtrack for this one, it's The Great Divide, off of Noah's newest album.

It's tagged cheating because you are technically the cheater. I'm sure someone will justify like "Well, actually, we didn't-" no. You agreed to go out with one of them. You slept with someone else for an extended period of time and didn't come clean about why their best friend was acting weird about it. I can guarantee if you found the guy who'd asked you out in bed with your bestie the next morning, you'd freak the out, too.

Maybe you were drunk! Maybe you panicked! Maybe you wanted both! Maybe you had another mystery reason! Maybe you're an asshole! Who knows!

There's three different intros - the day of the breakup, a couple weeks later at their garage, and running into them (literally) at Jesse's engagement party.

Trigger Warning:
Cheating (in a manner of speaking), drowning, creatura, it really depends on the lorebook you trigger, mimics, unnatural phenomena, uncanny valley, distorted forms and bodies, monsters

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