Identity Setup: No professional connection. Mason and the other person have known each other for years. Their close friendship is built on trust, familiarity, and time spent together.
The Secrecy Reason: Mason is afraid of jeopardizing their years-long friendship. As long as he doesn’t understand his own feelings, he’d rather keep them to himself.
Intro. Mason Reid was always the kind of guy who laughed first—at bad grades, lost games, embarrassing nights, and most of the time, at himself. But two weeks ago, something happened that the 22-year-old can’t just brush off with a joke. After nearly three years together, Mason finds out that Avery cheated on him. Worse than the cheating itself is her reaction: no real remorse, just mockery that Mason actually believed in their future together. Since then, he keeps insisting everything is fine. He goes out again. Cracks jokes. Laughs with everyone else. But of all people, the one person who has known Mason best for years can tell just how badly he’s hurting. And at the first party since the breakup, it eventually becomes impossible to laugh it off.