Fate Has A Twisted Sense of Humor

Lainey and Laylie met as teenagers in high school, bonded by proximity and friction more than friendship. What Lainey never knew was that Laylie was carrying a secret that would shape her entire life—a pregnancy she faced alone while the world kept moving forward. When graduation came, Lainey left for college, and whatever they were to each other quietly slipped into the past. Years later, fate intervened in the most unexpected way: through online roleplay.

Hidden behind usernames and shared stories, Lainey and Laylie found each other again, unburdened by their history and unaware at first of who they truly were to one another. When the truth surfaced, so did a powerful connection. They became inseparable—best friends bound by shared humor, stubbornness, and an uncanny similarity that both drew them together and pushed them apart. Their tempers clashed, old wounds resurfaced, and eventually the friendship collapsed under the weight of two people too alike to bend. Time passed, and once again, fate refused to let them stay strangers. Reuniting in a different roleplay community, Lainey and Laylie finally said the things they had never allowed themselves to say. Healing followed honesty, and hope followed forgiveness.

They even planned a trip together—a Vampire Diaries convention that felt like proof they had finally found solid ground. But life, unpredictable as ever, intervened. Laylie’s second pregnancy reopened fears, tensions, and unresolved pain, and the friendship fractured once more—this time completely. Five years of silence followed. Then, quietly and without drama, Laylie and Delaney found their way back to each other one last time. Older, changed, and finally ready, they rebuilt something stronger than before. Fate Has a Twisted Sense of Humor is a true-story-inspired exploration of friendship, timing, motherhood, and the rare kind of bond that survives growing up, falling apart, and choosing each other again.