One drunken mishap, and I ended up sleeping with my childhood sweetheart and best male friend, the person I’d known for twenty-eight years. Could we turn childhood friends into lovers? What’s it like to date someone you grew up with? Naturally, it’s nerve-racking, sweet, and complicated. I thought that if we clicked as friends, we could make it as a couple too. But sharing the same values doesn’t mean you’re suited to each other romantically, and having similar personalities doesn’t mean your lives will move at the same pace. Once, we stood shoulder to shoulder against the world. Now, we found ourselves on opposite sides. Our roles changed, our hearts changed, and perhaps we changed too. I once read these words: Do you know why the cat never catches the mouse in Tom and Jerry? It’s not that he can’t. It’s that if he did, their story would be over. That’s how it was with us. Our memories were long, but our story was short. What began as something we took lightly ended in regret.
