The January theme for stories is “Snowed In,” and we start the month with this offering from Tris Lawrence – a new side story in her Welcome to PHU ‘verse. But even if you’re new to that setting, there’s plenty to love in this stand-alone wlw story about two high school best friends realizing that maybe they can be “best friends AND”…
Title: Best Friends AND…
Author: Tris Lawrence
Genre: Modern with Magic
Series: Welcome to PHU
Rating: General Audiences
Trigger Warnings: bigotry (anti-magic), dubious consent (mild), micro-aggressions (anti-magic), misogyny
Relationship: f/f, f/m (background), friends to lovers
Character Features: high school student, in the closet
Tags: car accident (mentions of), clothes sharing, first kiss, getting together, high school setting, mutual pining, new york, pov third person limited, present tense, sports (academic), united states of america
Teaser:
Someday Eve should write all the evidence down and see if she can figure out who is and isn’t Talented on the STEM-athlon team. She suspects most of them are. It’s a welcoming place for people who are a little different than the supposed norm.
“We’ll be there in five.” Eve pushes the door closed. “I have a spare T-shirt in my bag,” she says. “I brought it just in case I got something on me during my lab. You can wear it.”
“I have a spare too,” Sandy replies. “Sometimes I get dirty lying down on the gym floor to launch the plane. I’d figured I’d save it for tomorrow, but now is good. I feel gross; it’s been a long day.”
Eve is disappointed; she wanted to share hers with Sandy. Maybe she wants to save the day, or maybe she just wants to see her best friend wearing her clothes.
Length: 14 pages/5,077 words
Price: $1.99 US
Get your New Year off to a gentle, fluffy, friends-to-lovers wlw feels with this all-new story!
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