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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 282: project
Avery's POVI was so grateful that I made it without appearing suspicious to Liam that night. I felt very tired from having to shuttle the both venues and wondered to myself how long I could keep it up. I got to the study room of the library on Thursday before either of them, set my things out, and sat in the table nearest the door because our usual table was already occupied by someone else and also because I was of the opinion that I needed to sit near exits when the room was going to contain someone like Zoey Carmichael. Liam arrived two minutes after me with his laptop and a coffee. He sat next to me and gave me the easy familiar look that meant he was glad to see me and the evening so far for him had been fine. Normal. Ordinary.He came over to the table where I was and gave me a kiss. We started talking about nothing in particular, just catching up with how our day had been. I kept my face at the same easy level and told myself that two hours was manageable spending it with Zo
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 281: Racing time
Avery's POVI left the Velvet Underground at twelve seventeen.I know the exact time because I checked my phone while I was still changing and twelve seventeen was already seventeen minutes past the midnight Liam was supposed to pick me up. The set had run late because I had been twenty minutes late. I missed my earlier spot and had to take a later spot which ended at that time. I changed back into my jeans and sneakers, went to the bathroom, ran cold water and worked through half the tissue dispenser and my baby wipes pouch trying to get the stage makeup off. I thought I had done enough. I got out the back door and I ran. The twelve-minute walk from the club to Crestwood community center took me six minutes at a run and the street lighting on two of the blocks was poor enough that I had to watch where I was going, which slowed me down when I could not afford to slow down.I reached the community center at twelve twenty-seven.Liam's car was parked outside and the engine was off, whic
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 280: Hard to keep up
Avery's POVNikki was standing in the corridor.She was the absolute last person I wanted to see right now.She was not performing or getting ready, not doing any of the things people did in the back corridor of the Velvet Underground before a show. She was just standing there with her arms folded and a drink in one hand and the expression on her face of someone who had been waiting.I stopped when I saw her."Twenty minutes," she said."I know," I told her. "I got held up.""Held up." She looked at me the way she looked at everything, like she was already ahead of whatever you were about to say and was just waiting for you to catch up. "You look like someone who got held up on purpose," she replied."I had a transport situation," I told her. "It is sorted now. I am here.""You are twenty minutes late," she said. "In this place, twenty minutes is equal to a lot of money." She tilted her head. "Where were you?" she asked."I told you," I replied. "Transport.""Your car broke down?" she
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 279: Sneaking around
Avery's POVWednesday came the way all days I was not ready for came, which was exactly on time and completely indifferent to whether I had figured anything out.Liam picked me up at half past five. I had my bag, my jacket, the expression I used when I needed to look like everything was fine. He was in a good mood the way he often was after a football training session that had gone well, easy and warm, talking as he drove about something Tate had said on the field that afternoon. I sat in the passenger seat and laughed at the right moments, watching the streets go past the window and thinking about the route he was taking and whether it was taking us anywhere near my real job, the Velvet Underground.It was not. He was going directly to Crestwood Community Centre. Of course he was. He was a man who had offered to drop his girlfriend off at work and was doing exactly that. There was nothing suspicious about the route he was taking. I was the suspicious one, mapping everything, calcul
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 278: Wednesday
Avery's POVWe had been on the sofa for two hours and it was the kind of evening that asked nothing from either of us.By some miracle my mum was home today, even though she was upstairs. She had been sneaking off to see that douchebag Dean ever since I kicked him out. She thought I didn't know, but I did. I just didn't care, as long as she didn't being his crazy ass back home.Liam had his feet on my coffee table and I was half sitting against him with a textbook open in my lap that I had not read a single page of, because reading was significantly harder when someone kept turning to say things to you and you kept choosing to respond instead. We had been talking about nothing in particular for most of the evening and it was the kind of nothing that felt like something, the way it always did when two people had gotten comfortable enough with each other to not need a reason to talk.We had covered his Thursday training session and a film we had both seen it the other three years ago an
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 277: Promise
Liam's POVI did not say anything on the walk to the car.Not because I had nothing to say, but the opposite. I had too much of it and I needed to let it settle before I opened my mouth, because some of what I was feeling was the kind of thing that came out wrong if you said it before you understood exactly what it was.What I had watched in that establishment had done something I had not prepared for. I had gone in bracing for something ordinary, a way to understand what she had been keeping and why, and what I got instead was several hours of watching someone be completely herself in a room where nothing was required of her. That was harder to know what to do with.Avery walked beside me and she did not push for words, and that was one thing I needed now. I needed to be in my head for a few minutes.She looked different after a shift than she looked anywhere else. Not tired exactly, more like something had been put down. The held-back version of her that operated at the athletics co
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 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 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
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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