Just Bromantically Invested

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Madden</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My best friend is uptight gorgeous the greatest person I know ... and I might be a smidge in love with him. Just a small amount. Barely worth the mention.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Which is a stupid choice on my part when the guy is straight.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Starting a landscaping company with him was the perfect mix of doing what I love and an excuse to spend time with him only it hasn't completely taken off yet and now he's telling me he's lonely.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lonely</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Apparently having one friend in your life isn't enough.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So I'm determined to help him find love. With someone other than me. Maybe if I can pull that off it'll mean my heart will finally get the message and move on.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or finish breaking into a hundred pieces.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Same thing right?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Penn</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Being besties with an overenthusiastic gold-hearted nudist of a man is a challenge sometimes. Madden makes everything sunshine when he's around.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The problem is that he hasn't been around as much lately. We work together sure but he's got his roommates and I have ... no one. Just him. So I feel the distance acutely.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My one reassurance is that we have work tying us together but when an old client calls with a proposition for us it feels like our once solid friendship is unraveling fast.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He wants Madden to help him open a nudist resort and if Madden's doing that he won't be working with me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm trying not to panic over the thought of losing him which is a typical common best friend reaction. Nothing out of the ordinary.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And neither is the way my body has been reacting to him lately.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everything is totally completely normal between us.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While there's still an us at all.</span></p><p><br></p>