For as long as I can remember, I’ve been hot for my best friend. Tara is beautiful, inside and out. I’d always liked to think she felt the same about me, but we’d never both been single at the same time.

That is, until recently. Tara split with her boyfriend and asked me — also recently dumped — to meet her for dinner. The window had opened. It was my chance to leave the friend zone.

I didn’t expect anything that first night. After all, we were just old pals catching up, right?

But it seemed Tara had a different plan.

She arrived five minutes early — something that had never happened before — and she was dressed to the nines. Seriously, I’d seen her dolled up for dates before, but that night was next level. When she leaned in to speak to the... Read More