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198: Apology
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 346: Second meet
Avery's POVHe was at the table again on Monday.Same seat. The one by the outlet. He was already there when I came in and he looked up when the door opened and said, "You came back.""It is a good table.""It is the best table," he said. "I have done the research. The outlet works, the light is right, and the barista on the Monday afternoon shift does not force small talk on customers.""That last one is actually important.""It is the most important. I do not need to be asked how my day is going by someone who cannot help with the answer." He looked at the chair across from him. "Pull one up."I pulled up the chair across from him. The barista came over without me asking. I ordered an oat latte, Ethan ordered another coffee, the barista went away, and neither of us said anything."Did you try the frame?" Ethan asked."What frame?""What the system is trying to solve. For the module. I said it might make the case studies more readable.""I forgot.""Fair enough.""I have had a week."
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 345: Ethan
Avery's POVI was alone in the coffee shop on the south side of campus with nothing in front of me because I had not ordered anything and was not sure I was going to.The barista from the week before was not on shift. There was a different one today, younger, who had taken one look at me, asked if I needed a minute before ordering, and I had said yes. That had been twenty minutes ago. At some point I was going to have to either order or leave and I was not ready to do either.My phone was in my bag.I had put it in there before leaving the house because the alternative was spending the afternoon watching the share count on footage of my own face. I had done enough of that this week to know what it cost me.I looked at the wall."Do you mind if I sit here?"I looked up.A man from one of my lectures. He had been in the same room as me for one class all semester and we had been in a seminar group together briefly in July. I knew his name because the lecturer used it. He asked good ques
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 344: Squad meeting
Avery's POVVega called an emergency meeting for Wednesday at four.The message went to the full squad list. Mandatory attendance. Meeting room off the main corridor. Thirty minutes. I read it and put my phone down and thought about what thirty minutes in a room with all of them again was going to feel like.Then I stopped because it did not change what it was going to be.I got there first and took the seat at the end of the table nearest the window. Behind me I could see the athletics building and the car park and Liam's usual parking spot which was empty at this hour. I looked at the whiteboard instead. Someone had written a formation count on it in blue marker that had never been fully wiped and underneath it in lighter marks from two or three meetings ago were other diagrams that had become ghosts.I kept my eyes on the whiteboard and waited.They came in. Mia took the chair to my left. Chloe took the seat across from me, put her hands on the table, and looked at nothing. Brianna
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 343: Next rehearsal
Avery's POVI got to the gym early and stood in the middle of the floor with nobody else in it and breathed.I had about eight minutes before the first person arrived. I had the floor under my feet and the lights overhead and the quiet of a space that was waiting to be used. I needed those eight minutes. Because the practice was the one part of the week I was certain about and I wanted to stand in it before it got complicated again.They started coming in at five forty.Mia was first. She walked in, looked at me, said nothing, dropped her bag by the wall, and started stretching. I felt a bit hurt because she didn't walk up to me, but I understood. Right now she meant nothing elaborate. Just I am here, let us get to work.Chloe came in second. She said, "Morning, captain," said with the care Chloe used when she was choosing her words. Not unfriendly. Careful. I had known her long enough to know which one this was.Five more came in together talking about something that stopped when the
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 342: first words
Jade's POV I saw him again on Thursday. Not in the coffee shop this time. In the lecture hall, which was where I had suspected I knew him from before. we had both attended that lecture for over twelve weeks without ever having an actual conversation. Public Administration was a big module. Big enough that you could sit in the same room as someone for an entire semester and not know their name. You could know just their face and the general area of the room where they usually sat and nothing else whatsoever. He came in late. Not significantly late. Four minutes, maybe five. The lecturer had started but was still on the first slide which was always the agenda slide that nobody actually needed. The agenda was on the module page and everyone had already seen it. Ethan came in and scanned the room and took a seat on the end of the row two ahead of mine. I watched him settle. He pulled out a notebook rather than a laptop. That was worth noticing because most people in that module ha
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 341: Lunch
Liam's POVI was so glad our project was done and submitted before my fall out with Avery. It would have been a nightmare having to work with her after the incident.The project grade came back on Monday.I saw it in my inbox when I woke up. Grade Release: Urban Planning and Community Development Group Project. I opened it at six forty-five, before coffee, before my brain was properly functional.Distinction.I closed the email and went to make coffee.Later I was in the library at the table near the window when Zoey came in. She did not come to my table immediately. She went to the shelf along the right wall, got a book, brought it back to the table two across from mine, and started reading.I was aware she was there.She had not made her presence into something I was required to respond to, which I had noticed about her appearances in the last week and a half. Just there. Not pushing but not avoiding.There was a Zoey I had been bracing for after everything with Avery. The one who a
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 194: Anger
Avery's POVThe silence stretched between us and neither of us moved to fill it.I had expected her to keep going. Jade did not usually run out of things to say when she was this angry. She had a way of building an argument the same way she did everything else, methodically, one brick at a time, un
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 193: What's wrong with it?
Avery's POVJade opened the door before I knocked.She stepped back to let me in and I went through and the door closed and the warmth of the house hit me and for one second it felt like every other time I had walked through this door in thirteen years. Jade then turned around and I saw her face an
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 192: Jade's response
Avery's POVI typed the message while I was still in the car park.'Can we talk? I need to tell you something. It's important.'I sent it and watched the ticks turn to delivered and started the engine and pulled out before I could change my mind about the wording. The wording was not perfect but it
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 191: Not coming back
Avery's POVHis flat was exactly as I remembered it.Football memorabilia on one wall, training schedule pinned to the fridge, shoes lined up by the door. He set his coffee down on the counter and turned to face me with the expression he had been building since he opened the door. Settled. Reasonab
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