I(18) know the title sounds bad but hear me out before you judge.
Some backstory, Dan(18) is one of my closest friends since elementary school, Ben(18) is my best friend since 8th grade, Joey(18) I had known for a few years at the time but didn’t become good friends until about junior year of high school. Senior year had rolled around and me and Ben were going to the same college, Dan was taking a gap year and doing some traveling, and Joey was going to college out of state. After college decisions had been made Ben and I had started becoming better friends with some people that we knew were going to the same school as us, this included Maddie(18).
Maddie and me were friendly throughout high school and I always found her attractive, but I wouldn’t have considered her a friend until senior year when we knew we were going to the same college. We had a group of about 10 people going to the same college that became close. Dan and Joey joined Ben and me in a friend group that included Maddie a few other women going to our college and some other random friends.