How [M]y best [F]riend and I had sex for the first time

I [M22] have been best friends with this girl, let’s call her Laura [F21], for around 2 years. We’re both in college and met through my roommate and until about to months ago the thought of us hooking up never crossed my mind. But during spring break I developed a huge crush on her, the kind of crush that makes you want to pour your heart to her in the off chance she feels the same way. The kind of crush that outshines any previous crushed you’ve had.

I knew how much she has going on in her life and her complicated relationship history so I didn’t have high hopes for a serious relationship. I told her how I felt towards her and she explained that she valued our friendship too much to try anything despite being somewhat attracted to me. Nothing changed in our behavior after until about 3 weeks later.

It was a regular Friday night and our big friend group had decided to go out to our favorite club. We had a normal pregame and were having a really good time at the club. Suddenly I looked at Laura and I could tell she had something on her mind, so I asked if she wanted to go upstairs since both our drinks were almost done. Now the credit card machine upstairs was broken that night so this area was pretty empty (who carried cash nowadays right?).