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045: She's proving difficult
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2026-04-09 23:58:38
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 339: Present
Liam's POVI first noticed her on Tuesday.Not the way you noticed a stranger. The way you noticed someone you already knew when they turned up somewhere unexpected. She was at one of the long tables near the window when I came in, laptop open, head down. I went to a different section, got out my work, and started.I did not think about it for the rest of the session.On Wednesday she was in the corridor outside one of my lectures. She was leaving a seminar from the room next door when I came out. We passed within about six feet of each other. She had her phone in her hand, looked up briefly when she heard people coming out, our eyes met for about two seconds, and then she looked back at her phone and kept walking.I kept walking too.On Thursday she was in the library again.This time she was in my section. Not next to me. Two tables over and three seats down. Far enough that it was not a deliberate approach. Close enough that if I looked up I could see her.I told myself the campus
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 338: Space
Jade's POV I went next door on Saturday. Not Thursday when I first saw it. Not Friday when I spent the day wondering whether I actually knew who was living next door to me. I spent Friday ignoring her calls because I needed to face her myself and not talk about anything on the phone. So I went on Saturday. Two days after I saw the footage that changed everything I thought I knew about the person next door. I knocked on her door at eleven. She opened it immediately. Like she had been somewhere near the door, ready to open it, for two days. She looked at me. I looked at her. "Can I come in?" I asked. "Yes," she said. She stepped back and I walked past her into the hallway and she closed the door behind us. We went to the kitchen. Thirteen years of difficult conversations meant we always ended up at a kitchen table. I took a chair. She settled across from me. Neither of us said anything. Then I asked, "Is it you?"It was not really a question. The footage had already ans
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 337: Jade's reaction
LAST WEEK THURSDAYJADE'S REACTION TO THE VIDEO RELEASED OF AVERY FROM LAST WEEKJade's POVMy phone buzzed at seven forty on Thursday morning and I picked it up from the nightstand without opening my eyes properly.It was a message from a girl on my course. Three words and a link.'Have you seen?'I opened the link while still half asleep.I watched it twice before I fully understood what I was watching.Then I pushed upright in bed and watched it again.The stage. The dancer. The mask falling forward in slow motion, frame by frame, the way someone had edited it to make the fall seem deliberate rather than accidental. The face. Fully lit. Three to five seconds before the hand came up.I knew that face."What the fuck?!"I said it out loud and it did not feel like enough so I said it again. I threw back the covers and stood up and then dropped back down because my legs were not sure what the correct response was. I opened the video a fourth time. Then I put the phone face down on the
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 336: Going on
Avery's POVI walked into the first lecture of the week and took a seat at the front.Not because the front was where I usually went. I was a middle-row person, left side, the seat with the right angle to the board without feeling like I was in the spotlight. The front was where people who needed to feel visible went, or people who needed to not be visible from behind.I was the second kind this week.The view from the front was different. The board was closer than I was used to and the lecturer was closer and the space that usually existed between me and the rest of the room was gone. But nobody behind me could take a photo of my face without me seeing them do it. Nobody could lean over to a friend and point and think I would not notice. From the front I could see the door and I could see the board and I could not see the room.That was the point.The lecture was Urban Planning. I had my laptop open before anyone else was settled and my notes from last week on the screen and my eyes
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 335: Meeting with coach
Avery's POVVega's office was small and always had too much in it.Binders on the shelves that went floor to ceiling on one wall. A whiteboard covered in formation diagrams that she never fully erased, just wrote over until the old marks became ghost layers underneath the new ones.A desk with two chairs in front of it and a single plant on the windowsill that had survived every semester I had been at Crestwood college because Vega was the kind of woman who did not let things die on her watch.I took the chair on the left at ten on the dot on Monday morning.She came in two minutes later with a coffee she had made somewhere down the corridor and settled across from me. She looked at me directly and said nothing."Thank you for coming," Vega said."You asked me to," I told her."I did," she said. "And I want to be clear before we start that this is not a formal hearing. Nothing said in this room is going to a committee or a board or anyone who is not in this room. This is a conversatio
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 334: Escalation plans
Brianna's POVI called Colton on Saturday.Not because anything had changed overnight. The footage was still spreading and Avery was still silent and the campus was still processing. None of that required a call. I called because I had been sitting with the same thought since Thursday morning, turning it over from different angles, looking for the flaw in it, and the flaw had not appeared in two days of looking so I was ready to say it out loud to someone who would tell me honestly if I was wrong.I needed to hear myself say it.And I needed someone who understood the mechanics to tell me whether there was something wrong.He answered on the second ring."I want to file a formal complaint," I said.A pause. "Against who?""The athletics board has a code of conduct for athletes," I said. "It covers public behaviour, representation of the programme, actions that bring the athletics complex into disrepute." I had read it three times before I called him. "What Avery has been doing for m
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 272: You lied
Liam's POV "Which bar?"The two words came out of Avery's mouth before the rest of her brain had caught up with them. I watched it happen in real time. The question leaving her mouth with the genuine confusion of someone who had not been asked what she expected, and then the half second where she
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 268: Spend the night
Liam's POVZoey picked up on the second ring."Liam," she said, and her voice had the particular quality it got when she was already thinking before she spoke. "This is unexpected. I'm surprised you're calling me by this time of the night but I'm happy you are.""I need to see you," I said. "Tonigh
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 267: Surprising her
Liam's POVAfter that encounter with her, I let my intrusive thoughts go and decided I was just going to surprise her at work and see what happens. On the day I planned it, Avery kissed me goodbye at the door at half past six and said she would be back sometime around 2:00 a.m."Late shift?" I ask
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 264: Clear
Liam's POVI found her outside the faculty building at half past eleven.She was coming down the steps with her bag over her shoulder and her phone in her hand. She looked up, saw me, and whatever she had been about to do with her phone stopped.I did not wait for her to speak."I need to talk to y
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