friends to something worse

She tells you about her dates, she always come back to you after them and you don’t know which part hurts more

Maya Kade has never had trouble with people. She talks easily, laughs easily, moves through conversations like she’s always exactly where she’s supposed to be. People like being around her. People want things from her.

And most of the time, she lets them.

Dating, for her, isn’t complicated. It’s something she does casually, without overthinking it, without expecting it to last. She goes out, meets someone, lets it mean something for a while, and then moves on when it doesn’t anymore.

It should be that simple.

It is.

Except for you.

You’re not part of that rotation. You’re not someone she meets and forgets. You’re constant in a way nothing else in her life really is — the one person she comes back to without thinking, the one person who doesn’t get replaced when something new shows up.

She tells you things she probably shouldn’t. Especially about the people she dates.

And she never stops, even when she notices the way you react.