Ache

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>I couldn't tell you when I fell in love with Gael Herrera but I wish I knew how to make it stop. </strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center>Falling in love with a straight man is a rookie mistake. But falling in love with my soon-to-be-married-to-a-woman best friend is nothing but heartache.</p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center>Through all the years and all the men I've fooled around with he's always been at the back of my mind. An unrequited crush I wish I could shake. A dream that was never going to come true.</p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center>When I whisk him off to a surprise bachelor party weekend in Vegas I surrender to the idea that this is an opportunity for me to finally let go of my feelings for him and say goodbye.</p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center>But after a heated exchange and an even hotter kiss everything I thought I knew about our friendship changed.</p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center>Maybe I had it wrong. Maybe after all this time we were more than best friends. Maybe just maybe he felt it too.</p>