No, we can’t just be Friends

At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face was expressionless when he said, “No. Because we put friends in boxes, like we do with everything else in life for convenience sake. Most friends you see only occasionally, and even the ones you see a lot still all have their boxes, their specific place in your life and no more. That’s one of the best things about being someone’s love– you don’t have one box in their life because you’re in all of them. You’re their friend, lover, trusted confidante– all those things at the same time. I do not want to be put in one of your boxes now. I also don’t want to whittle you down to fit into just one of mine. That would completely demean what we had. I don’t want to end up air-kissing you on each cheek when we meet now and then and say things like ‘How ARE you? You look so *great*!’”

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