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355: Another run in
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 356: Checking
Avery's POVEthan and I were back at the usual table on Wednesday, the campus shop, the outlet, the two of us working through our own reading with occasional comments thrown across.It had settled into something after our date at the place on Milton Street. Not smaller. Just clearer. He knew where things stood and so did I and the table was easier for both of us because neither of us was thinking about an unspoken question anymore. It was the easiest kind of company. Shared space with shared purpose, no acting required from either side. I had not had enough of that lately."How is the market analysis essay going?" he asked."Slowly. I keep starting the same paragraph and deleting it.""What is wrong with it?" he asked."Nothing is wrong with it. It just does not feel finished even when it technically is.""That is called being a perfectionist," he said. "I have the opposite problem. Mine feels finished when it is nowhere near finished.""That sounds worse.""It is much worse," he sa
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 355: Another run in
Liam's POVShe was outside the sports centre when I came out of my training for the day.She was not waiting exactly. She was standing near the entrance with her bag over one shoulder and two cups in her hands, the way she had stood on the running path days ago, except this time it did not feel like a coincidence and neither of us pretended it was."You look like you need this," she said, holding one cup out.I took it."Thank you.""You are welcome," she said.We started walking without deciding where, just moving rather than standing in the cold. She fell into step beside me.The thing about Zoey was that she had always been easy to be around. Even when things between us had been complicated, her physical presence had never been something he had to work on. It was just there, like background warmth. I had forgotten that about her in the months since the relationship ended, the way you forgot the good parts of something when the ending was what stuck. The walk was reminding me."Lon
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 354: I like you
Avery's POVThe café on Milton Street had a window table free and Ethan was already at it when I arrived at four minutes past seven."You made it," he said, standing to pull out the chair opposite him, which was more formal than anything from the campus shop."You said seven. I am only four minutes late.""I was starting to worry you had changed your mind," he said."I do not do that. If I say yes, I show up.""Good to know," he said, and settled back.The café was warmer than the campus shop and quieter. They had proper menus and table service rather than a counter to queue at. Ethan ordered a filter coffee. I ordered the same because reading the whole menu felt like more effort than I had in me."How was the rest of your day?" he asked."Long. I started a new job. Well, an old volunteer position that became a real job. Same place, different arrangement.""That is good news," he said. "Congratulations.""It does not pay much. But it is honest and it is steady.""Those are two things
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 353: Date
Avery's POVI couldn't bear to stay inside my house doing nothing anymore, especially as Jade, and Liam, who I would usually be with after game days weren't talking to me.I decided to go back to school to catch up on some of my academic work. I ran into Ethan on the way, which was not our usual arrangement."I was hoping I would catch you," Ethan said."You did catch me. I have fifteen minutes before my next thing.""I do not need fifteen minutes," he said. "I need about thirty seconds and then you can go."I looked at him. "Go on.""I want to take you for coffee properly," he said. "Not the campus shop where we happen to end up because we are both there anyway. An actual place. Saturday evening. Seven o'clock. There is a café on Milton Street that does not close at nine like everywhere else on this campus does."I did not say anything.He noticed the pause. "You do not have to answer right now," he said. "I know that is a different question from are you at the coffee shop today.""
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 352: Stay in silence
Liam's POVWe won by ten points.It wasn't because the other team was weak. But because Tate played the best game of his season on the offensive line and gave me time I had not had in the last three games and I used every second of it. By the final quarter we had built something the other team could not recover from.I walked off the field, went to the changing room, took my helmet off, and looked at the floor.It was a good win. The kind that felt clean all the way through rather than scraped together at the end. I should have felt what I usually felt after good wins, which was the physical satisfaction of doing a hard thing well. I felt it though. It was there, beneath everything else. It was just not the loudest feeling in the room.The rest of the team came in around me and the changing room became the usual noise of a win. Relief and laughter and someone's music and the release of men who had been locked inside a game for ninety minutes and were now allowed to be normal again.I
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 351: Meeting Gerald
Avery's POVGerald was behind the counter when I came in after my class. I wanted to wait till after the game to go to him, but I have some free time before the game and decided to go over.He looked up and said, "There she is," which was a good sign of a possible positive response."Pat said you were back Monday.""Yea I took a few days and was back by Monday," he said. "I had a week off. My back." He straightened slightly to demonstrate it. It looked mostly right. "Pat said you came in. Said you asked about paid hours.""I did. I need to talk to you about it properly if you have ten minutes.""Yes of course I do," he said. He came out from behind the counter, took the chair across from me, and put his hands flat on his laps the way he did when he was prepared to listen. "Talk.""I lost my other job," I said. "The one I was doing at the club. It is done. The income is gone and I have not replaced it. I have bills due in three days and I am three hundred dollars short." I kept my voic
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 179: Possibilities
Avery's POVI walked slowly.Not because I had anywhere else to be before I left for the night, but because the changing room was at the end of the corridor and I was not ready to be around other people yet. The corridor was mine for now and I was going to use it.Third complaint.I turned it over
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 178: The second meeting
Avery's POVI looked at Raven for a second after she said it.She looked back at me with the expression of someone who had been standing in this corridor waiting to deliver that message and had spent the time between then and now deciding how to say it plainly enough to be useful."Now?" I said."H
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 176: Backstage
Avery's POVI knew something was off the moment I walked through the staff entrance on Friday night. It was not anything I could point at specifically. The corridor looked the same. The changing room door was open the same way it was always on a Friday. The music from the floor was the same pre-op
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 167: Old Jade
Avery's POVJade was making pasta.Not from a packet, actual pasta, which meant she had either had a good day or was stress-cooking, and based on the focused way she was chopping an onion when I came in I suspected it was the second one. I pulled a stool out from under the breakfast bar and sat dow
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