What if we stay friends?

Love and friendship, are they compatible?

"Guys and girls can be friends. I'm just saying it's
perfectly possible for a guy and a girl to be friends. I've never
understood what the problem is. I mean, yes, we've had to put up with a
lot of stupid questions: 'Are you two together?', 'But you must have
had something going on, right?' Well, okay. Be that as it may, I admit that not everything
has gone smoothly. We've had a problem or two. Okay,
quite a few problems. But look how it all ended. When I
got to school, we both assumed we would never exchange
another word after that first day. Especially you, because you
went crazy for me as soon as you saw me. There are plenty of adjectives to
describe me: great, strong, virile# Do you want me to continue?" Let's say that
Macallan and Levi were friends at first sight. Everyone says that
boys and girls can't be real friends, but they are. And
very much so. They hang out after school, share thousands of jokes that only
they understand, their families are super close# Levi and Macallan are just
friends, and they're happy that way. But, of course, boys don't ask Macallan
out because they think she's with Levi, and Levi spends so much time with
her that he doesn't have time for his girlfriends. So one day they'll start
to wonder if they wouldn't be better off together. Although perhaps that would complicate
their relationship too much.

Critics have said:

"This book is charming and comforting thanks to its familiarity. Eulberg gives her male protagonist an incredible level of emotional maturity for a 15-year-old boy, but many of the issues about friendship are true to life, as are the other relationships recounted in the book." -RT Books Review

"I love Elizabeth Eulberg and her literature. For me, however, it's her characters that really stand out. Her books generally have a light tone, and as they deal with the normal problems of adolescence and so on, they manage to balance the serious and the fun. We Can Work It Out? definitely has that virtue." -Candece's Book, Blog.

"We Can Work It Out? takes a witty and sarcastic look at what it means to be friends with the opposite sex in high school. Elizabeth Eulberg offers a different take on friendship between the female and male genders, and how society judges it." -Hypable