Chapter 184

"Like, we can’t give each other what we want or need out of a romantic relationship," she said. "I love you, and I’ll tell you that, and I’ll mean it. But when I tell Mel I love her? That’s something different. Something eternal that is in the soulmate category. When I tell you I love you? I mean it like, hey, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of fucking you and being your friend. Maybe it’s a friends-with-benefits kind of love."

Lovers. We were lovers. The term was meant for people like us.

"You should write a song about that," I said.

"Shut up," she said, wrinkling her nose.

Juliet had always said she wouldn’t take a role that required her to sing. I teased her about it after once catching her singing in the shower.

"Let’s go smoke," I said.

"You read my mind," she said.

Juliet sat on my lap and sparked up a large joint, which she had created by stuffing beautifully ground buds in