Whoa, those people need to get out! find some new friends! everyone’s too close and all up in each other’s business! get some breathing room! the protagonist is going to explode!

I like how the characteristics of the narrator in the first paragraph are reflected in the last sentence. Very well done.

Oh, small towns. Interesting that they’re together, when they both have same-sex desires.

Isn’t it. Beauty of denial.

Niice. All intertwining and stemming from one manipulative ‘friend’.

So complicated! I’m sure glad I don’t live their life! Great piece, though.