Friends With Benefits

Friends With Benefits

by Ramona Blake · Ongoing · 50 chapters

⚠ grief ⚠ mild language

Maddie Okafor and Jonah Reyes have been best friends for ten years — the one stable thing in both their lives. Then, three weeks apart, both of their relationships fall apart: her wedding gets called off six weeks out, his girlfriend leaves for a job overseas without really discussing it. Drunk and wrecked on Maddie's fire escape at 2 a.m., they land on an arrangement — no dating, no feelings, no drama, just two people who trust each other completely while they're both too burned to want anything real. Ground rules. Structure. A friendship with one new addition. It works, for a while. That's the problem. Because somewhere between the rules they keep breaking without admitting it and the decade of history neither of them can pretend away, they're not just friends who are sleeping together anymore — and the day one of them says the real thing out loud too raw and too soon, the other panics hard enough to risk losing not just the arrangement, but the friendship itself.

Chapters

Chapter 1: The Arrangement, Confirmed Free Chapter 2: The Rice Comment Free Chapter 3: The Lease Was Already Signed Free Chapter 4: Two Casualties, One Couch 🪙 10 Chapter 5: Ground Rules 🪙 10 Chapter 6: The Logistics of It 🪙 10 Chapter 7: Rule One, Broken 🪙 10 Chapter 8: Trivia Night 🪙 10 Chapter 9: What You Don't Say Out Loud 🪙 10 Chapter 10: Small Mercies 🪙 10 Chapter 11: The Barn on Ashford Road 🪙 10 Chapter 12: The Dock 🪙 10 Chapter 13: Weather 🪙 10 Chapter 14: Aquarium Trophy 🪙 10 Chapter 15: Ideal Sunday Morning 🪙 10 Chapter 16: The Seating Chart 🪙 10 Chapter 17: Table Six 🪙 10 Chapter 18: Nothing About the Rules 🪙 10 Chapter 19: Two Rooms 🪙 10 Chapter 20: Elena Doesn't Knock 🪙 10 Chapter 21: The Rules We Wrote 🪙 10 Chapter 22: Things Cole Isn't Saying 🪙 10 Chapter 23: Safer 🪙 10 Chapter 24: The Just Friends Card 🪙 10 Chapter 25: Almost 🪙 10 Chapter 26: A Right He Didn't Have 🪙 10 Chapter 27: Something Real and Unguarded 🪙 10 Chapter 28: Radio Silence 🪙 10 Chapter 29: The Shutdown 🪙 10 Chapter 30: The Quiet Kind of Loud 🪙 10 Chapter 31: The New Normal 🪙 10 Chapter 32: Almost, For a Decade 🪙 10 Chapter 33: A Friend Group Holding Its Breath 🪙 10 Chapter 34: What He's Been Fine With 🪙 10 Chapter 35: Practice Runs 🪙 10 Chapter 36: The Save-the-Date 🪙 10 Chapter 37: What Ravi Saw 🪙 10 Chapter 38: Two Weeks Out 🪙 10 Chapter 39: Arrivals 🪙 10 Chapter 40: The Rehearsal 🪙 10 Chapter 41: The Wedding 🪙 10 Chapter 42: What I Want 🪙 10 Chapter 43: Morning After 🪙 10 Chapter 44: Telling the World 🪙 10 Chapter 45: The Adjustment 🪙 10 Chapter 46: Moving In 🪙 10 Chapter 47: Cole's Turn 🪙 10 Chapter 48: A Question, Considered 🪙 10 Chapter 49: The Fire Escape, Again 🪙 10 Chapter 50: Epilogue: The Fire Escape, Always 🪙 10

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