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We were never friends, Lewis had once said in an interview at one of his lowest points. They all said it wasn’t true, but it was, near enough. They’d been so much more than that, but he wasn’t sure they’d ever truly been just plain friends, not in his eyes at least. To him, there had always been something more. It felt impossible to ever strip it all back to something so simple. And he was absolutely certain that no matter what Nico told people, I’m open to mending things between us, they could never be just friends. Not now, not after everything.Or, Lewis on a healing journey after the implosion of his relationship with Nico x Clean