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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 237: Formation
Avery's POVThe stadium was the same stadium.Same lights, same crowd building in the stands, same grass under the field lights, same cold air coming off the evening. Everything exactly as it had been two weeks ago when I had stood on this sideline, called formations, and captained my squad through a home game while feeling, somewhere underneath the Brianna tension and the Colton tension and all of it, the particular satisfaction of doing the job properly.Same stadium.Different squad.I dropped my bag at the sideline position and turned to face them as they arrived. I looked at each face the way I always looked at each face before a game, taking attendance and reading the room. What I read tonight was more complicated than it had ever been.Keely was there. Solid, present, eyes on me with the calm steady expression that had been there all week. Two of the other senior girls were neutral, waiting to see what the session looked like before they committed to anything. The three girls w
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 236: Tonight
Avery's POVI went to Liam's at four.The game was at seven thirty and I needed to leave by six. I had two hours, and I did not want to spend them alone in my house turning the five names over in my head for the fourteenth time, so I knocked on his door. He opened it and looked at me for a second, then stepped back and let me in without saying anything.His kitchen was warm. He had been making food that he'd abandoned mid-process when I knocked, something on the hob still with bread sitting out on the counter. I sat at his table and he finished making it, set a plate in front of me, then sat down across from me. We ate for a few minutes in the easy quiet.Then I said, "I am frightened."He looked at me."Not about the game," I told him. "About what happens after it. The review recommendation is coming whether we win or lose tonight. The five names are in the file whether we have the best session of the season or the worst." I looked at the table. "I have spent the last two weeks docum
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 235: Formal record
Liam's POVTate was waiting by the entrance to the training facility on Friday morning.Not casually. Not the way he waited when he arrived early and was killing time before the session. He was standing with his bag at his feet, phone in his hand, and when he saw me coming across the car park his expression told me he had been there a while and had something to say.I slowed down."How long have you been here?" I asked."Twenty minutes," Tate replied. "I wanted to catch you before anyone else did."We moved away from the entrance toward the side of the building where nobody walked unless they had a reason to."Colton submitted a formal written concern to Reyes on Wednesday," Tate said. "Through the captain's performance feedback channel. It went in at six in the evening.""What does it say?" I asked.Tate pulled out his phone and read from it. Someone had photographed the document or transcribed it; I did not ask which. "It states that throughout the current season the offensive unit
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 234: Five girls
Avery's POVVega's message came through on Friday morning.'My office before your first session. Nine o'clock.'I had been expecting it since Wednesday. I had watched Brianna move through the squad in the two days between the welfare review notification and now, the quiet purposeful conversations that had nothing to do with formation prep or game day readiness. I had watched Mia stop meeting my eyes during the Thursday session. I had watched the fresher from the stunt avoid my corner of the changing room. I had known something was being built and I had not been able to stop it. I had gone to bed on Thursday night knowing that Friday morning was going to tell me what it was.I went to Vega's office at nine and sat down and she closed the door."A collective statement was submitted to Dr. Osei's office yesterday evening," she said. "I received a copy this morning.""How many signatures," I asked."Five."I said nothing."I am going to read you the key points," Vega said, "because I thin
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 233: Brianna's plan
Brianna's POVThe notification came through on Wednesday afternoon.A formal communication from the athletics director's office addressed to all parties involved in the ongoing welfare review of the cheer squad. It was two paragraphs. The second paragraph stated that the scope of the review had been broadened to include the conduct of senior squad members in relation to Tuesday's practice incident.Senior squad members.I read it three times.I had been on this squad for two years. Two years of arriving first, leaving last, knowing every formation, every count, every girl's strengths and weaknesses by heart. Two years of being the one the freshers came to when they had questions because the captain was too busy or too distracted or too wrapped up in her own life to notice that her squad needed actual leadership. Two years of doing everything right and being everything this squad needed.And then Avery Nash had come from nowhere and been handed the captain spot like it cost nothing.No
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 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 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 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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