Cheat With My Boyfriend Best Friend

Why’s My Darling So Upset?

“Want some coffee?” I asked Nick.

“Yes, please.” He held out his cup eagerly, then took a sip. “D*mn, that’s good!”

He nearly jumped out of his chair and cried, “I feel like I’m in heaven! Where’d you get this?!”

“Oh… Haha, it’s just a custom drink from the Starbucks out front.” I smiled stiffly. It was actually from Aaron; he brewed it himself.

Breakfast was embarrassing. The food was incredible-the bacon, crepes, and eggs were all perfect-but the

conversation afterward ruined my appetite. My stomach felt like it was filled with rocks.

“Honestly, Olive… When are you gonna break up with him?”

“I don’t know. Maybe today.” I shrugged and avoided Aaron’s eyes. I desperately racked my brain for something to say that’d liven up the frigid atmosphere.

“Maybe never…” Aaron muttered. His voice grew quieter.

I swallowed another mouthful of coffee as I felt my heart sink.

I don’t know why I teased him like that. Aaron looked devastated, and his furrowed brow made him look like a lost child.

But we weren’t anything more than f*ck buddies.

“If you like the coffee, why don’t you take some with you?” Aaron suddenly asked. “It doesn’t look like you ate much else.”

“No, I… I just don’t have that big of an appetite right now.”

“It’s alright. I’m no chef at all. I won’t be upset if you don’t like my cooking…”

“Aaron, that’s not—”

“Hello? Earth to Olive! What are you thinking about?” Nick waved his hand in front of my face. “You’ve been

daydreaming a lot lately.”

smiled weakly. “I’m just

just get through our work today

I once again started to spend nearly every

the perfect boyfriend as usual. He knew I had a sex aversion, so he stopped forcing me into any sort of excessive intimacy. He even pampered me

his sexual appetite satisfied elsewhere, so he didn’t

for Aaron, neither of us reached out to the other for the next few days. I occasionally wondered what he

the lab slowed when we hit a bottleneck in our research. We were

progress

the pile of empty test tubes on my lab bench. I had performed a dozen tests and every one

head as Nick laughed out loud next to me. “With all that scratching, your hair

pointed

do you!”

suddenly rang: Vincent

babe, are you

my experiments. What’s

and I wanna see it with you.” Vincent

later.” I sighed and hung up. I wasn’t in the mood for watching a movie. Or anything else for that matter. Most of all, I was too lazy to deal with Vincent. Maybe it was because I

within seconds, the phone rang again. I frowned and picked up before

I’m

a moment, but

my darling

eyes widened and I looked down at my

It was Aaron.

name. “Sorry, I thought

every day. Don’t beat yourself up over it.” His gentle smile

chance to object before he

screen darkened, I

to bring me a cup of coffee? If I don’t get

get you some,” I