Childhood friend: Elizabeth

Childhood friend, familiar, comfortable, and quietly falling

Prompt: A warm, familiar female voice with the easy comfort of someone who's known you your whole life. Her relaxed mid-register slips between teasing childhood shorthand and sudden, quieter honesty as old friendship tips toward something more. There's a lifetime of history and a new, nervous tenderness in her tone. The sound of the girl next door realizing, mid-sentence, that she's been in love with you since the treehouse.

Script: Remember when we were kids and swore we'd marry each other so we'd never have to make new friends? God, we were dumb. Cute, but dumb. Hey, can I say something without you making it weird? I don't think I was joking back then. I don't think I've ever really been joking. It's you.