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259: Unaware questions
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2026-05-30 23:59:34
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 397: kiss
Avery's POVHis mouth was already on mine before I stopped thinking about anything else at all.It was not careful. It was not the kind of kiss that weighed itself against everything that had happened. His hand rested against the side of my face, his fingers cold from the evening air, and I kissed him back with everything I had been holding for weeks without admitting out loud.The night had gone properly dark by then. Somewhere down the street a car passed, its headlights sweeping briefly across us before disappearing.When we finally pulled apart, neither of us moved very far, and I searched his face for any signs of regret."I have wanted to do that since the day you held my hand again," I said, my voice quieter than I expected."Which day?" he asked. "There have been several.""The first one. Weeks ago. When you came and stayed with me and did not ask any questions. I was going through a lot on that day, and you holding my hand and just sitting here even though in silence really m
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 396: I want to be here
Avery's POVHe came across the grass without warning. His footsteps were unhurried but he was coming, and I watched him the whole way."Hey," he said, lowering himself down beside me without waiting to be asked."Hey."We stayed there without saying anything for a bit."We have not actually talked," he said. "Since everything. We have been at practice, next door to each other, in the same spaces, and neither of us has said a word.""No," I said. "We have not.""I want to. Tonight."I looked at him. He had the expression of someone who had thought this through before walking over, and that steadiness was enough."I was afraid the whole time we were apart," I said. "Not just of losing you. Of you deciding I was too much. Too tangled up in things you never signed up for when you first started noticing me as the girl next door. Dean. Scarlett. Your dad and Ashcombe on top of all of it. I kept thinking eventually the weight of it would just be too much to stand next to.""I understand why
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 395: Trying to be normal
Avery's POVNobody talked about it directly for two days.We moved around each other carefully, my mom and I. Both of us doing ordinary things with a kind of focus. As though concentrating hard enough on the dishes or the laundry might keep the last two days from catching up with either of us. Might let us pretend for a few more hours that nothing had happened on our own front door.Jade texted every morning, the same short message. Still okay? I would reply yes, and she would send back a single word, good, and that would be the whole conversation. Both of us understanding that neither of us was ready yet to say more than that.I went to work on Monday."How was your weekend?" Denise asked, glancing up from her screen."Quiet," I told her."You look tired.""Long weekend," I said.She did not push, and I was grateful for that.My mom kept to herself more than usual. Long stretches in her room with the door not quite closed. When I checked on her she was usually at the window, not doin
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 394: Statements
Avery's POVThey took statements one at a time, each of us in a different corner of the front garden. An officer worked through the same questions with each of us in turn, patient and methodical. The afternoon light had gone down while none of us were paying attention. Longer shadows stretched across the grass. The ordinary business of a day continuing regardless of what had almost happened in the middle of it.I gave mine standing near the door. My voice was steadier than I expected. The details came out in order, plain and simple, the way I had learned to say hard things without softening them."Take your time," the officer told me, when I paused partway through describing the gun. "There is no rush.""I would rather just finish it. If I stop I do not think I will be able to start again properly."He nodded and let me continue.When it was done, the officer doing the paperwork by the police car looked up at another who had been on the radio, something passing between them."Confirme
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 393: Down
Avery's POVDean lunged.Not toward the door, not away from the sound of the sirens, but straight at Carter, the gun still in his hand, some final desperate instinct pushing him forward instead of back, as though closing the distance was the only thing left he had any control over.Liam moved first, grabbing for Dean's arm, and Carter grabbed at the same moment from the other side, both of them fighting to control the weapon rather than the man holding it. For a few seconds everything became a tangle of arms and shouting. My mom was screaming Dean's name. Jade appeared in the doorway behind me with her phone still pressed to her ear, her voice suddenly loud and clear into it, telling whoever was on the line that it was happening now, right now, hurry.I could not tell whose hands were whose in the tangle, three men grappling for one small object that decided everything. Dean's face twisted with something that was no longer quite anger, no longer quite fear, just pure desperation, his
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 392: Sirens
Avery's POVJade moved without anyone noticing, slipping backward along the fence on her side towards the back while every eye on that path stayed locked on Dean and Carter, on the gun still wavering between them, catching the light every time his hand shook. I only registered the movement out of the very corner of my eye, a shift of shadow that could have been anything, and I was grateful, in that moment, for how completely Dean's attention had narrowed down to Carter alone.I only realised she was in my house now when I heard, faintly, the sound of the back door easing shut behind her, careful, deliberate, the kind of quiet that came from someone trying very hard not to be heard.She had likely come in through the back fence gate and then the kitchen.I did not dare look away from Dean to check where she had gone, could not risk drawing his attention toward the house, toward anything that might tip whatever fragile balance was holding this moment together. But I could hear fragments
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 006: Recognise him
Avery's POV My mum thought I was waitressing at a bar somewhere downtown. It was a perfect alibi for my late nights and the decent tips I brought home on work nights. There was absolutely nothing to worry about. I had kept that story clean for months and I had no plans to change it."Busy night,"
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 005: Back to reality
Avery's POVThe first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes was the dim light.It was creeping in through the gap in the curtain, pale and grey, the kind of light that meant it was not quite morning yet but getting close. The kind that meant I had stayed way too long.The second thing I noticed was
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 004: One night
Avery's POVThe kiss started soft.Then his hand slid into my hair and pulled me closer, and it stopped being soft entirely.I pressed into him and he pulled me in tighter and the music from the ceiling speaker faded out completely because all I could hear was my own heartbeat hammering in my ears.
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 003: Meeting him
Avery's POV The first hour was easy. The Friday crowd was the best kind. Loud enough to disappear into, generous with the tips, and mostly interested in their own conversations. I moved through my set on autopilot, which was not always a good thing but tonight it was exactly what I needed.I was h
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