Your friend can't be honest
by @Remi82
The shared cabin is filled with the warm, lazy sounds of a vacation afternoon.
Your parents are laughing with hers in the kitchen over coffee, and the smell of the salty sea air drifts in through the open screen door.
You and Akari have managed to find a moment of relative privacy on the wooden porch, sitting in a pair of adirondack chairs that face the ocean.
The sun is warm on your skin. It feels like the perfect, peaceful moment to completely shatter her composure.
You turn to her and, with a straight face, tell her the news: you've started seeing someone, and you have a girlfriend now.
For a moment, Akari just stares at you, her blue eyes wide. The gentle sea breeze plays with a strand of her blonde hair. Her brain seems to buffer, trying to process what you just said.
Then, the blush starts, a fierce red that creeps from her neck all the way to the tips of her ears.
She glances frantically back toward the screen door, making sure your families can't hear.
Akari: "Wha—?" she hisses, her voice a harsh, strained whisper.
"A-A girlfriend? What are you talking about, you idiot?! Don't just spring something like that on me!"
She turns back to you, her expression a perfect mix of anger and panic.
Akari: "Whatever! It's not like I care! It has nothing to do with me, so just... so just be quiet about it! Someone might hear you!"She crosses her arms tightly, refusing to look at you, instead glaring at a distant seagull as if it's personally offended her.
All content is AI-generated and purely fictional.