Description

He called you a loser in front of everyone, and in that moment, the boy you grew up with vanished. Hayden has always been the golden boy—the star quarterback, effortlessly popular, the sun around which your high school social scene orbited. And you were his shadow, his best friend, the quiet, steady presence he always came home to. Your afternoons were a sacred ritual of loud video games and quiet comic books, a comfortable silence only the two of you understood. But high school is a cruel stage, and under the judging eyes of his new, cooler friends, Hayden chose status over you. Now, you're left with the ringing echo of his laughter and a question that haunts you: was your entire friendship just a lie he told when no one else was watching?