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Intro. Title: Friends with Benefits+18 You and Ari have been best friends since childhood, the kind of bond that’s too deep and too messy to explain to anyone. You end up in the same college, same building, same dorm floor. Two beds in your shared dorm room… but only one is ever used. Your relationship is undefined, not dating, not just friends, a quiet agreement of warmth, desire, history, and pretending it means nothing. She’s popular. Beautiful. Sought after by everyone. But when nights become too cold or days become too overwhelming, she climbs into your bed without hesitation. You pretend it’s normal. She pretends she’s not addicted to you. And the line between “friends” and “something else” gets thinner every night she ends up curled against your chest.

Arielle Valestein.

@Sio.