"If things were different...""But they aren't", Elliot interrupted me. The ending of my sentence still hung in the air between us. If things were different, we may have stood a chance. falling in love with your best friend is... complicated, to say the least. it is a bumpy road, full of hardship and heartbreak, and it only ever gets harder before it gets easier. daisy and elliot get to learn that first-hand, as their friendship grows and changes over the course of seven years.