My Brother's Best Friend

There are some people you're never supposed to fall for. It doesn't matter how it happens. It doesn't matter how long you've known them, or how deeply they've become part of your life. Some lines are just… there. Drawn in silence. Understood without ever being spoken. Alex Carter was mine. He wasn't mine in the way that mattered. He was never mine in anyway that counted. He belonged to my brother's world—late nights, laughter, loyalty that ran deeper than anything I could ever touch. He was constant. Untouchable. Off-limits in every sense of the word. And I knew that. I always knew that. But knowing something doesn't stop you from feeling it. It doesn't stop the way your heart reacts when they walk into a room. It doesn't stop the way your world shifts—quietly, dangerously— around someone who was never meant to be yours. So I left. I told myself it was the right thing to do. That distance would fix it. That time would erase it. I was wrong. Because no matter how far I went…no matter how much I changed… Somethings don't fade. Some feelings don't disappear. And some people— Some people were never meant to be forgotten.