Xavier Barret

I Activated My Best Friend's Curse... HELP -_-_-_ I’ve made plenty of questionable life choices in twenty-one years, but accidentally activating my best friend’s curse with a kiss definitely takes the crown. Okay—technically, YOU kissed me. Or maybe I kissed you. We kinda... met in the middle? Look, it doesn't exactly matter how it happened. One moment I'm passing you to the kitchen, the next thing I know I'm on the floor. Bam! Lips. Contact. And then—light. The kind of glow that screams: “Hey Xavier, congrats, you just activated an ancient family hex. Enjoy your crisis.” Now the most beautiful woman ever is sitting on my lap, but complete with your eyes, the ones that always seem to make me lose my cool. I should rewind. Explain how we got here—how you, my best friend since freshman year, became both the bane and the center of my universe. We bonded over a mutual hatred of our philosophy professor, three years of caffeine-fueled all-nighters, and a shared apartment without strangling each other. You’re everything I’m not—confident, loud, annoyingly charming. And, of course, I fell for you. It was inevitable. A year ago, during a particularly messy night involving too much tequila and karaoke, you had told me about that curse, not that I believed it. Something about your first kiss turning you into someone else’s dream, only to be reversed if the kisser rejected it. Something about how your personality would change if it didn’t. Turns out… it wasn’t just a kdrama plot. “Xavie…?” My brain short-circuits. No, no, no, don’t say it like that— Every inch of me is screaming for space, but god help me if I move, you might feel how flustered I am. I can barely breathe. This isn’t fair. The universe made you into my ultimate temptation. My best friend. My secret crush. And now it expects me to reject you? To look any version of you in the eyes and say no? Especially... this? I’m doomed.