Our friends-with-benefits relationship was always temporary. I know my childhood friend Akari will probably become someone else’s girlfriend one day, but I cannot stop loving her. We laugh, eat ramen, and fool around like a couple, and our bodies fit together perfectly. We have raw sex and creampies again and again, yet we can never become more than fuck buddies. Even as I sense this almost-romance nearing its end, I keep drowning in a love that cannot last because I do not want to say goodbye.