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Fake dating the Captain's step brother chapter 57
Kayla povThe reunion banners went up Monday morning, navy and gold stretched across the entrance, old team photos lining the trophy case, the whole school humming with an energy I hadn't felt since before any of this started.I stood in front of my locker, staring at nothing in particular, Rhys's words from a few nights ago still sitting heavy in my chest.*I need to actually decide. Soon.*I'd meant it when I said it. I still meant it now, standing here with the reunion week stretching out ahead of me, students buzzing past on either side, and some quiet, steady certainty had been settling in me since that conversation, clearer with every day that passed.Priya found me between classes, falling into step beside me with her usual energy."You're doing the thinking face," she said."I have a thinking face?""You have several faces. This is the thinking one." She bumped my shoulder lightly. "What's going on in there?"I hesitated, then decided there was no point pretending anymore, no
Fake dating the Captain's step brother chapter 56
Cole povI found her in the kitchen the next afternoon, exactly where she usually was this time of day, humming quietly to herself while she iced a fresh batch of cookies that had actually turned out properly this time.I stood in the doorway a moment before she noticed me, working up something I still wasn't fully sure how to say."Need something?" she asked, glancing up, careful in the way she'd been careful with me for weeks now, like she was still bracing for whatever version of me might show up."Can I help?"She blinked, surprised, the icing bag pausing mid-motion. "With the cookies?""Yeah.""Of course." She recovered quickly, sliding a second bag of icing across the counter toward me, though something in her movements stayed careful, watchful.I pulled up a stool and got to work, mostly making a mess of the first few cookies, my lines uneven, icing pooling in places it shouldn't."You're doing the thing where you press too hard," she said, glancing over. "Lighter touch."I adj
Fake dating the Captain's step brother chapter 55
Chelsea povThe account was clean, three layers removed from anything that could trace back to me, built slowly over the past several evenings during the narrow window between my mother's phone calls and her nightly check on my room.I sat cross-legged on my bed, laptop balanced on my knees, scrolling through the reunion event page one more time, watching the guest list grow, watching Kayla's name appear in the RSVP list Priya had posted publicly like she wanted the whole world to know exactly where to find her that week.I didn't have a plan yet. Not really. Just fragments, pieces I was gathering the way I always gathered things, patient, methodical, waiting for the right shape to emerge from them.My door opened without a knock.I closed the laptop too fast, the motion itself giving away more than I wanted it to, and looked up to find my mother standing in the doorway, her expression already hardening into something I recognized from months of careful surveillance."What are you do
Fake dating the Captain's step brother chapter 54
Kayla povLater that evening, I sat curled on the living room couch scrolling through the reunion schedule again, still smiling faintly over Cole's disastrous baking attempt, when I found myself opening our text thread instead.I typed something out. Deleted it. Typed it again.‘Priya just showed me the cookie you burned. I think you might actually be worse at baking than you are at chemistry, which honestly I didn't think was possible.’I read it over twice, then, before I could talk myself out of it, added one more line underneath.‘I'm really glad you came back into my life. Even with the burnt cookies.’My thumb hovered over for a long moment, heart doing something complicated in my chest, before I finally hit it and set the phone face-down on the couch cushion beside me like that might slow down whatever I'd just set in motion.It buzzed almost immediately.‘Cole: The cookies were a tactical choice. Building character.’‘Cole: Also. I'm glad too. More than the text is letting me
Fake dating the Captain's step brother chapter 53
Kayla povThe Stanley living room smelled like fresh coffee and something faintly floral, and I sat curled on the couch beside Rhys, finally free of any cast or crutch, watching him attempt to explain a chemistry concept neither of us actually cared about."You're not even trying," he said, tapping his pen against the textbook."I'm listening intently.""You're staring at the wall behind my head.""It's a very interesting wall."He gave up, tossing the pen onto the coffee table with a small laugh, and for a moment we just sat there, the quiet easy in a way it hadn't been in weeks.Both our phones buzzed at once, then again, then a third time in rapid succession."Okay, what," Rhys muttered, pulling him out.Priya's message sat at the top of the group chat, three exclamation points deep.‘ASHBOURNE IS DOING A HOCKEY CAPTAINS REUNION. ALUMNI. EXHIBITION GAME. DINNER. THE WHOLE THING.’"A reunion," I said, scrolling through the flood of details. Former captains returning. A meet-and-gree
Fake dating the Captain's step brother chapter 52
Chelsea povThree weeks had passed since the hallway, and my life had shrunk down to the exact dimensions of this house.Homeschooling now, a tutor arriving twice a week, my mother hovering close enough that I'd started measuring the distance between us in feet rather than rooms. My phone sat in a basket by the front door every evening, some agreement she'd worked out with the lawyer, monitored, restricted, a leash disguised as concern.The hearing was still pending. No formal charges yet, though the word "possible" kept attaching itself to every conversation my mother had on the phone in the next room, low and careful, like I couldn't hear every word through the thin walls anyway.Expelled. Officially, permanently, a mark that would follow any future application I ever filled out again.I sat at my desk most afternoons, staring at a blank notebook page, the careful architecture I'd spent ten years building reduced to this, four walls and a tutor and a mother who flinched slightly ev
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