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051: Jade's apology
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2026-04-12 23:41:23
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 232: Watching
Liam's POVColton found out by Wednesday.I did not know how. I had not told anyone except Avery, and Tate did not know I had gone. But Colton found out the way Colton found things out, which was through the network he had been building in this team since long before I arrived. On Wednesday morning before the session started he came to stand at the locker adjacent to mine while I was getting changed. He did not say anything for a moment, and I knew he was there and said nothing either.Then he said, "You went to Reyes."Not a question.I closed my locker and looked at him. "Yes," I said.He looked back at me with the expression I had not seen from him since the path between the buildings on Monday morning. Not the captain expression and not the managed composure. The real one."About the meeting," he said."About team dynamics and performance concerns. Yes," I replied.He was quiet for a moment. The changing room had other players in it but they were moving carefully around the edges
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 231: Welfare review
Avery's POVVega called me in on Wednesday morning.Not her office this time. The athletics director's office. Dr. Osei's assistant met me at the door and showed me to a different room from Monday, a larger one with a table and four chairs. Dr. Osei was already there along with Vega and a woman I did not recognise who introduced herself as the university's welfare officer.Three people in the room.Three people meant this was not the same conversation as Monday.I sat down and kept my face level and my hands loose on the table and waited."Thank you for coming in," Dr. Osei said. "I want to be clear that this is not a disciplinary meeting. It is a welfare and safety review triggered by the incident at yesterday's practice session." She looked at me. "We have spoken to the student involved, to Coach Vega, and to two other squad members who witnessed the incident. We would now like to hear from you."I told them what happened. From the formation reset when I saw Brianna move toward the
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 230: Another problem
Avery's POVI had seen Liam briefly on Monday evening, before the week took over. We had stood in the corridor outside the gym long enough for me to tell him what had happened with Brianna and for him to tell me what had happened with Colton, and somewhere in the middle of it we had both arrived at the same conclusion without needing to say it out loud. We needed to be careful. Both complaints had been filed and both of them were now in motion, and the smart thing, the only thing, was to watch how they played out before either of us did anything else. We agreed on that. We did not discuss what careful looked like beyond that, because we already knew.Tuesday practice started clean.Vega had the squad on the tracks at four, and I ran the warm-up, called the formations, and the girls moved through them with the focused quality that good sessions had when everyone was doing what they were supposed to be doing. Brianna was in her position, running her reps, giving me nothing to call out.
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 229: Talking to the coach
Liam's POVReyes had an open door policy between eleven and one on Mondays.I had never used it before. I had been at this programme for one semester and I had not been in a position where I needed to use it before. I stood outside the door at eleven fifteen and knocked and his voice came back immediately."Come in."His office was bigger than I expected, one wall of film equipment and monitors running game footage on a loop, the far wall covered in depth charts and formation diagrams. He was at his desk with a coffee and a laptop. He looked up when I came in. His expression did not change but something in it shifted, the way a coach's face shifts when a conversation he has been expecting has finally come through the door."Harrington," he said. "Close the door."I closed the door and sat in the chair across from his desk. The film on the monitors was from Friday's game.He looked at me. "You were in Colton's meeting this morning.""Yes," I said."And you are here now.""Yes," I said
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 228: Counter attack
Avery's POVLiam was coming out of the athletics building as I was crossing the car park just before ten in the morning.He saw me and I saw him. We both slowed and stopped on the empty Monday morning tarmac. No words were needed. The expressions told both of us everything."Vega," I said."Reyes," he said."Brianna submitted a formal complaint to the athletics director over the weekend," I said. "Three specific points, and a mandatory review of the squad leadership structure for the rest of the season."He looked at me. "Colton called a pre-session team meeting this morning," he said. "He addressed the whole squad about system discipline and freelancing and did not name me once. Tate told me afterward that he had conversations with at least three offensive starters over the weekend individually."We stood there."They did this together," I said."Yes," he said."It is coordinated," I said. "It is not two people separately having problems with us. It is one strategy running on two fro
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 227: By the book
Liam's POVThe training ran for ninety minutes.Colton ran the offensive sets by the book. Every formation called correctly, every assignment given in full, every rep run the way it was supposed to be run. He was professional and focused. He gave Reyes absolutely nothing to question and gave me nothing to push back on. I ran every drill and executed every assignment and gave him the same thing back.The training was a good one.But the field was different.It was in the small things. The way the line came out of a huddle and set up. The half second between when I called a route adjustment and when the receiver acknowledged it. Nothing you could point to. Nothing you could bring to a coach and say this is the problem. Just the texture of it, the feel of the group around me, different from what it had been on Friday evening when the stadium was coming down around the win.I ran my reps and I felt it and I said nothing. There was nothing I could do with it on the field. So I ran. Every t
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 009: Supposed to hate him
Avery's POVTwo seconds.The handshake lasted exactly two seconds and I was the one who pulled away first.He let me go without comment, and for a moment after I dropped his hand, he just looked at me. Not the polite, surface-level glance of a person being introduced to someone they do not plan to
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 032: Liking him more
Avery's POVHe did not answer straight away.I had asked about Jade like I was asking about a random stranger I didn't know. He was quiet as if there was an elephant in the room for a second or two before he picked it up. I lay still and waited and told myself I was just curious, that it was a natu
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 025: Not your world
Avery's POVFor a moment nobody said anything.Jade stood two steps below us on the library steps with her shopping bag in her hand. I wondered how she knew where we were. Either way, the look on her face was not the quiet, contained version of hurt she had worn all afternoon at practice. This was
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 024: Working together
Avery's POVBrianna definitely had it coming and I wasn't going to let her get away with making me look bad this time.“I'll see you later.” Priya said and I watched her walk away.I took deep breaths to pace myself before springing into action that definitely would have consequences.I stood at th
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