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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 391: The gun
Avery's POVDean's hand came out of his jacket holding a gun, small and black and impossibly ordinary looking for something that could end everything in this street in a single second.Nobody moved. Nobody breathed.The world seemed to narrow down to that one object. The way it caught the afternoon light, the way Dean's hand shook slightly around it, not steady, not confident, but not any less dangerous for that. If anything the shaking made it worse, made it feel like something that could go off by accident just as easily as on purpose. I could hear my own pulse in my ears, louder than anything else on that street, louder than the birds still singing somewhere in a hedge as though nothing at all had changed in the last three seconds.Somewhere down the block a car door closed, an ordinary sound from an ordinary world that no longer felt like the one I was standing in.Liam moved first.He stepped sideways, putting himself between Dean and the doorway where my mom and I stood, his arm
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 390: He's back
Avery's POVCarter opened the front door before any of us could stop him."Do not," my mom screamed, grabbing at his arm, her fingers digging into his sleeve."He is not going to calm down staring at us through a window," Carter said, and stepped outside before she could argue further, his shoulders squared in a way I had never seen from him before. His posture looked like a man finally walking toward the thing he had been avoiding for twenty years instead of away from it.We followed, all of us crowding into the doorway, close enough to hear but not close enough to reach either of them if something happened, my heart hammering against my ribs. Liam's hand found mine without either of us deciding it, his grip tight enough that I could feel his own pulse through it."Stay behind me," Liam said quietly, his eyes never leaving Dean's back.I nodded even though I doubted either of us would actually be able to hold still if things went wrong.Dean stood on the path, swaying slightly, his e
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 081: Pharmacy visit
Avery's POVI looked at the message on my phone for a long time before I did anything with it.'Are you home? I have been trying to reach you all afternoon.'He had sent it forty minutes ago, and my phone had been on silent in my pocket since the lecture hall that morning, which meant there were pr
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 076: Next class
Avery's POVI sat in the campus carpark with the engine off and tried to talk myself into going inside.It was Tuesday. Eleven in the morning. Business Management was at half past in lecture hall three. I had not been to class in two weeks. I had told myself last friday that I would go this week. I
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 167: Old Jade
Avery's POVJade was making pasta.Not from a packet, actual pasta, which meant she had either had a good day or was stress-cooking, and based on the focused way she was chopping an onion when I came in I suspected it was the second one. I pulled a stool out from under the breakfast bar and sat dow
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 001: Happy Birthday to me
Avery's POV"If you drop her one more time, Brianna, I will pull you from the lineup myself."The whole gym froze.The music was still playing but nobody was moving. It suddenly became just twelve girls staring at me like I had said something in a foreign language, which I guess I had, because nobo
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