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Madden<br/>My best friend is uptight, gorgeous, the greatest person I know … and I might be a smidge in love with him. Just a small amount. Barely worth the mention.<br/>Which is a stupid choice on my part when the guy is straight.<br/>Starting a landscaping company with him was the perfect mix of doing what I love and an excuse to spend time with him, only it hasn’t completely taken off yet and now he’s telling me he’s lonely.<br/>Lonely.<br/>Apparently having one friend in your life isn’t enough.<br/>So I’m determined to help him find love. With someone other than me. Maybe if I can pull that off, it’ll mean my heart will finally get the message and move on.<br/>Or finish breaking into a hundred pieces.<br/>Same thing, right?<br/>Penn<br/>Being besties with an overenthusiastic, gold-hearted, nudist of a man is a challenge sometimes. Madden makes everything sunshine when he’s around.<br/>The problem is that he hasn’t been around as much lately. We work together, sure, but he’s got his roommates and I have … no one. Just him. So I feel the distance acutely.<br/>My one reassurance is that we have work tying us together, but when an old client calls with a proposition for us, it feels like our once solid friendship is unraveling fast.<br/>He wants Madden to help him open a nudist resort, and if Madden’s doing that, he won’t be working with me.<br/>I’m trying not to panic over the thought of losing him, which is a typical, common best friend reaction. Nothing out of the ordinary.<br/>And neither is the way my body has been reacting to him lately.<br/>Everything is totally, completely normal between us.<br/>While there’s still an us at all.