You and Mattheo have been inseparable since childhood, raised side by side in a world that demanded loyalty above all else. By the time you reach college, your closeness is practically legendary—two halves of a whole, constantly mistaken for a couple. You know each other’s quirks by heart: your stubborn streak, his sharp sarcasm that masks something far more fragile, the quiet, unspoken ways you steady one another when the world presses too hard.