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066: He left
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 068: Sitting in the car
Liam's POVI sat in the car for a long time without starting the engine. I reclined my chair a little and just sat there there thinking.The club entrance was visible in the wing mirror, a couple of people going in and the door closing behind them. I watched it for a moment and then looked at the steering wheel. The conversation was still running in my head in full, every piece of it, and I had learned the hard way over the years that driving while my brain was doing that particular thing was not a good idea. So I sat."Get it together," I said quietly to myself in the empty car. The words did not do much, but saying them out loud made me feel slightly less stupid than just sitting there staring at nothing.She said she liked me more than she should. Those were her exact words. And that was exactly why she could not give me what I was asking for.I had turned it over about a dozen times since I walked out of that room and it still sounded wrong. Not because I did not believe her. I di
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 067: Going home
Avery's POVI drove home just after 2am.The roads were quiet and I kept both hands on the wheel and the radio off. The drive was about twenty minutes and I used all of it trying not to replay the conversation in loops, which worked for about the first five minutes and then stopped working entirely. I kept coming back to one of the last statements he made. When he said my words were the most frustrating thing anyone has ever said to him. I thought about the fact that he was not even wrong. It was frustrating. I knew exactly why it was frustrating and I was the one making it that way. I did not have a better option and it felt kind of awful.By the time I pulled onto my street I thought to myself that I was really just going to sleep it off and I'll be better by morning.If only I knew how wrong I was.The front door was unlocked, which was strange by two in the morning. I let myself in and looked around so I could see if something was wrong.Dean was in the living room. The television
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 066: He left
Avery's POVHe stood there for a moment after I said it.He was looking at me and I could see him deciding what to do with what I just said to him. It sounded ridiculous even to me, but it was the truth. I couldn't tell him the truth as Avery and I didn't want to lose him as Scarlett.Then he spoke. "That is the most frustrating thing anyone has ever said to me."He was not angry when he said it. At least he didn't look like he was. But he was not warm either. He just looked, like he said, frustrated."I am sorry," I said. The words came out smaller than I wanted them to."Sorry doesn't really fix it.""I know.""Then why say it at all? What is even the point of any of this?"I had no good answer for that. I had asked myself the same question more than once tonight and I had not come up with an answer.And then he opened the door and walked out.I sat back down in the room for a minute after he left. I did not move. I just sat there with my hands in my lap, looking at the door he had
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 065: Not have you
Liam's POVI looked at her and I tried to find a way in my mind to erase my frustration about the situation.That was what I did with everything. There was always a way through in every situation if you were thorough and serious enough to find one. Just like I found a way to deal with Colton and his childish antics.I went through everything she had said. The mask and the life she had outside the room and the consequences of revealing herself. I turned it over and over in my mind, but it brought me back to the same point every single time. I could not build something with a person I was not allowed to know. Not in a week, not in a year, not in whatever patient timeline I had been imagining when I told my best friend Jace it was worth trying. That was just the truth of it. Staying in this room for another minute or even another few hours was not going to change the reality of it. I had sat with harder things than this and found a way through, but those things had always had a door some
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 064: Her reply
Liam's POVShe looked at me like the question was either a foolish one or that I was foolish to ask it."Of course I like you," she said. "That is not the issue."I was glad to hear that she at least liked me, but I was still frustrated by the situation. "Then what is the issue? Because from where I am sitting it looks very much like the issue."She stood up and moved to the other side of the small room, not far, just enough to put some space between us. She stood there with her arms crossed but not in the defensive way, more like she was trying to hold herself together. The room actually felt smaller than it usually did right now."Liking you is exactly the problem," she said. "If I did not like you, this would be easy. I would tell you no and it would be done and I sure as hell wouldn't lose sleep over it." She stopped to look at my face."I'm sorry but it's the truth." She continued. "The fact that I do like you is what makes everything about this so much harder than it should be."
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 063: Just your name
Avery's POVHe leaned back on the cushion, but he was not done talking."But I am not asking for everything right now," he said. "I am just asking for this. What is already here between us. The thing that is happening in this room right now.""What is already happening between us is going to make you want more," I said. "That is what I am telling you. I am not saying you are greedy or unreasonable. I am saying that is how it works when two people are actually having something with each other the way we have been. It grows. And when it grows you are going to want the things I cannot give you and we will be in a worse version of exactly this conversation.""You keep deciding things for me.""I am not deciding anything for you," I said. "I am telling you what I cannot offer. Those are different things and you know they are."He said something under his breath that was not quite agreement to me and not quite an argument either. Then he stood up and moved to the other side of the room the
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 039: The clash
Liam's POVThe field went quiet as I walked.It didn't go quiet all at once. It spread outward from the point where people first noticed me heading in the wrong direction, one player at a time, a ripple moving through both groups until the whole offence had stopped to stare and the squad on the tra
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 038: Two reasons
Liam's POVI stood at the edge of the field and watched Colton walk back to his side like he owned every inch of ground he had ever stepped on.Tate jogged over and stopped beside me, still catching his breath from the last drill. The drill had been cut short because of Colton's drama. He followed
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 010: Only warning
Avery's POVHis hand was still in the air when I reached into my jacket pocket and reached for my pepper spray.I had carried a pepper spray since I got into college and some random dude stalked me in my first year. It came more in handy since I started working at the club and coming home either re
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
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