Obligatory story from a few years ago, but I figured that you guys would appreciate it.
Just for some background context, [m]yself and family [f]riend. Let’s call her Emily, we’ve grown up together since our really early teens. We were best friends at one point for a while. Growing up her mum would always tease her about me being her boyfriend and although I’ve always found her an attractive girl, I was never really her type and I’m not sure she was mine either. We grew apart a little bit after moving to separate towns but still made an effort to keep in contact & meet up for lunches or go shopping that kinda thing, each time we met seemed to get further apart from the last.
Fast forward to 2018, it was mid/late November and we’d met up for lunch to have a catch-up, I hadn’t seen Emily in maybe 6+ months or so, it was super casual nothing that we hadn’t done before. While at lunch Emily mentioned that one of her friends was having a night out for her birthday & asked if I wanted to go? I’m a bit of an introvert, so I hesitated but ultimately agreed to go, I hadn’t had a night out for a while & figured it would be nice to get out for a night.