Spare

This is the person in your life who you are just friends with, but they are not in the friend zone. You spend a lot of time together. You wouldn’t even say you’re in the talking stage, a platonic friendship but you are pretty sure both of you could maybe see it being more, but neither person is willing to cross the line to make it more than just a friendship. But you always know in the back of your head that they are an option. Like a spare tire… you know they are there but aren’t gonna use it if you don’t need to

Person 1 “hey are you an Andy a thing?”

Person 2 “no not really, he’s just my spare right now, but maybe that will change”