Best Epic Childhood Friends to Lovers Fanfics

Childhood Friends to Lovers fanfics over 100,000 words — the long-form treatment of the trope. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.

Childhood Friends to Lovers 4 epic fics Avg 205,653 words over 100,000 words

Top 4 Epic Childhood Friends to Lovers Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with childhood friends to lovers and falls in the over 100,000 words range.

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About Childhood Friends to Lovers

Two people who grew up side by side — sandbox, sleepovers, shared scraped knees — realize somewhere along the way that what they feel stopped being friendship years ago. The history is the romance: every memory becomes evidence in hindsight.

Nobody knows you like the person who watched you become yourself, and readers melt at love built on a lifetime of already choosing each other.

Common scenarios: Best friends since age six sharing a bed like always until one night it suddenly isn't like always, or a character finding their old letters and realizing every single one was a love letter.

About This List

175,111
median words
50%
complete
13,973
top kudos
~11.7 hours
median read time

This list of 4epic Childhood Friends to Lovers fanfics spans 822,611 total words. Kudos range from 4,616 on the newest entries to 13,973 on the most established. 50% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (3 of 4 fics).

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