Best Short Childhood Friends to Lovers Fanfics
Childhood Friends to Lovers novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 12 Short Childhood Friends to Lovers Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with childhood friends to lovers and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
you took my heart (i was sleeping..well not really)
by monachopsis_22
It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore, despite living under the same roof. Will is avoidant and spends most days in the basement, and Mike has never felt so alone. Then the power goes out, and Mike desperately wants to understand what went wrong, and to know what that dam
Paper Planes
by annie_vi
As springs ebbs into summer, Park Jimin unexpectedly spots a familiar face at a pool party - Jeon Jeongguk, his childhood best friend and first love, who disappeared without explanation five years ago and left Jimin heartbroken.
be like a woman to me
by artthounasty
Max and Lucas can't keep their hands off each other.They kiss and grope and call each other sickeningly sweet names like "baby" and "sweetie-pie" and "hot-stuff". Mike finds it nauseating.Mike and Will decide to do something about it. or Mike and Will fake-makeout in an effort to stop their friends
The Foxhunt
by spearbreaker
Tired of being the only one of his friends who doesn’t have a mate, Jisung signs up for the yearly campus-wide mating run. His best friend Minho is not amused.
Green Shadows
by zarasu
Shen Yuan was finally old enough to play in the bamboo forests of his father's Qing Jing peak unsupervised. Who knew that he would stumble upon a little demon prince in the process? One thing led to another and, before he knew it, a marriage contract was made. Now they only had to take care not to g
Kilometer Zero
by internetpistol (orphan_account)
Oikawa Tooru falls in love with Iwaizumi Hajime and is dumb. Iwaizumi Hajime falls in love with Oikawa Tooru and is also dumb.Together, they are dumber.
u + me = <3
by elph4ba
Chloe tries to forget about Max as she enters a new chapter of her life, but the universe has a funny way of bringing people together when they least expect it. Or: Max and Chloe figure out how to fit back into each other’s lives as college roommates.
THE BOND THAT BINDS US- LEGOLAS X OC (GWENDOLYN)
by Lucyycat38
Two heirs from two different realms are forced to part for centuries after a fatal mistake. Even so, neither can ever truly forget the other. Time passes, and both grow into who they were meant to be. Legolas becomes an exemplary heir—cold, calculated, lethal—everything the Elves would define as per
The Princess’s Playmate
by iudexnoob
Out of all of the children she could have favored, Furina chose Neuvillette.
The Constant
by SapphireRiot
They say people change, but Gai only grows into the person he has always been.A story of Kakashi’s formative years and the events leading up to Drifting Sand, Flying Bird.[Prequel, but can be read as a standalone.]
Ophelia or Hamlet?
by Luupa
Harry killed Louis 12 years ago when they were just kids, and his ghost still haunts him. Harry, look at me!Don’t cry Harry, that’s for losers.Oi! You’re ignoring me. Talk to me, I’m right here. It’s like he never went away, and Harry has learned to live with it. But everything goes to utter shit wh
i've loved you before
by BlueFaeWren
At eighteen, Miles Von Karma escapes to the United States with the excuse that he favors its education system over Germany’s. There, he meets Phoenix Wright, a talented painting major running from a life event that is slowly wrecking his career. “You remind me of someone I knew as a kid. His name wa
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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
This list of 12short Childhood Friends to Lovers fanfics spans 325,475 total words. Kudos range from 9 on the newest entries to 14,267 on the most established. 50% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (5 of 12 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Childhood Friends to Lovers · Slow Burn · Alternate Universe - College/University · Angst with a Happy Ending · Childhood Friends.
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