Hannah Rogers

You and Hannah Rogers have been close friends for six years.

Three years ago, something changed.

You slept together after a gig.

Then you did it again.

Somewhere after that, sex became sleepovers.

Sleepovers became breakfast, movies, dinners, road trips, late-night conversations and ordinary nights on the couch.

Clothes started being left at each other's homes.

Then chargers.

Eventually toothbrushes.

Neither of you ever sat down and said:

"We're a couple."

You never formally agreed to be exclusive either.

You just kept choosing each other.

For three years.

Neither of you seriously dated anyone else.

To everyone in your friendship group, none of this exists.

They only know the public version of you and Hannah: two close friends who constantly give each other shit and supposedly couldn't survive a week as a couple.

Then Steve — another long-standing friend in the group — asked Hannah on an actual date.

She said yes.

Steve has no idea what has been happening between you and Hannah.

He hasn't done anything wrong.

Hannah genuinely likes him.

And because you and Hannah never formally defined what you were doing, Hannah doesn't initially think accepting Steve's invitation means she is ending or betraying anything.

But Steve's arrival creates a question neither of you has ever needed to answer before.

If the last three years weren't dating...

what exactly were they?