TL

Y/N has spent three years convinced her best friend Michael is the safest person in her life—steady, reliable, always just... there. What she doesn't know is that he's been quietly, completely in love with her since the night they kissed freshman year and she told him she just wanted to be friends. He said okay. He never stopped meaning something else. Then her boyfriend cheats on her, and she's back where she started: alone, humiliated, and sure she'll never find what she writes about. Michael is the one who picks up the phone. The one who shows up. The one who has quietly rearranged his entire life around being exactly what she needs—and has wanted her, all of her, the whole time.