Love You Like That

By KK Hendin

It's been a decade since Raina Passmore graduated high school, and all she has to show for it are a faded diploma, a pile of student loans, not quite enough Twitter followers to fund a medical GoFundMe if she needed one, and the dawning realization she might be in love with her best friend. The world is going to hell in a political handbasket, and nothing she does seems to assuage the endless guilt that she should be doing more. 

 

Jasper Kazan is the poster child for millennial burnout. He's overworked, overwhelmed, incredibly broke, and secretly in love with his best friend. Washington, D.C. has chewed him up and is trying its best to spit him out. Leaving D.C. would mean admitting that he failed in everything he'd been working toward since high school.

 

Can the combination of existential crises, too many feelings, and a dangerous amount of caffeine help Jasper and Raina admit their feelings to each other, or will it all end in heartbreak?

 

*LOVE YOU LIKE THAT was originally published in ROGUE EVER AFTER.*

• Language: English
• Publisher: KK Hendin
• Release date: Jan 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393387503

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Love You Like That

Love You Like That

KK Hendin

KK Hendin

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Love You Like That

It’s been a decade since Raina Passmore graduated high school, and all she has to show for it are a faded diploma, a pile of student loans, not quite enough Twitter followers to fund a medical GoFundMe if she needed one, and the dawning realization she might be in love with her best friend. The world is going to hell in a political handbasket, and nothing she does seems to assuage the endless guilt that she should be doing more. 

Jasper Kazan is the poster child for millennial burnout. He’s overworked, overwhelmed, incredibly broke, and secretly in love with his best friend. Washington, D.C. has chewed him up and is trying its best to spit him out. Leaving D.C. would mean admitting that he failed in everything he’d been working toward since high school.

Can the combination of existential crises, too many feelings, and a dangerous amount of caffeine help Jasper and Raina admit their feelings to each other, or will it all end in heartbreak?

To everyone who wonders if they’re doing enough, and everyone who wishes they could just be a native.

And to Granda, who has taught me political activism by example. You deserve all the superlatives.

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Love You Like That

In classic Raina fashion, it took Jasper moving two hundred and sixty miles away before she realized that she had fallen in love with her best friend.

It wasn’t like she could be mad about it. She had plenty of time before he moved that she could have realized that she didn’t just love Jasper platonically.

Almost two decades, in fact.

But no. Her heart had to wait through school—elementary school, the hellscape that was middle school and high school, and then four years of college, without having realized that she would never love anyone the same way she loved Jasper.

It’s not like she didn’t know she loved him. She did. But she thought it was just best friend love. You know. Just your run of the mill would take multiple bullets to make sure that nobody hurt him, kind of love.

In retrospect, she really should have figured it out sooner. But romantic relationships were not her forte. At all.

Well, relationships in general weren’t her forte.

I’m having an existential crisis again, she texted Jasper.

He answered almost immediately. I thought we already agreed that it’s not ‘again’ if you’ve been having an existential crisis since I met you.

The problem with having the same best friend for that long is they knew how to call you