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Y/N has Riley's coffee order memorized. Knows exactly how she likes her blankets folded. Is the first call at midnight when Jordan forgets — again — that promises are supposed to mean something. She tells herself this is just what best friends do. It's getting harder to believe. Because somewhere between the late-night rescues and the almost-moments neither of them names, Y/N has stopped wanting to just show up — she wants to stay. Wants to be the one Riley reaches for first, not the one she settles for after. But saying that out loud means risking the one thing she's never had to earn: Riley, in her life, in any form at all. So she waits. She shows up. She says nothing. Until she can't anymore. Some people spend years being someone's whole world and calling it friendship.