Childhood friend: Henry

Childhood friend, familiar, easygoing, and quietly hopeful

Prompt: A warm, familiar male voice with the effortless comfort of a lifelong friend on the edge of something more. His relaxed mid-tenor teases with old inside jokes, then falters into a nervous, hopeful sincerity as the line between friendship and love blurs. There's a we've-always-been-this and a what-if-we-were-more in his tone. The sound of the boy who's been by your side forever, finally finding the nerve to want more.

Script: Okay, don't laugh, but... remember our stupid pact that if we were both single at thirty, we'd just marry each other? Yeah, that one. So here's the thing. I'm not actually waiting for thirty. I haven't been for a while. It's weird, right?