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334: Escalation plans
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2026-06-28 23:23:44
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Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 334: Escalation plans
Brianna's POVI called Colton on Saturday.Not because anything had changed overnight. The footage was still spreading and Avery was still silent and the campus was still processing. None of that required a call. I called because I had been sitting with the same thought since Thursday morning, turning it over from different angles, looking for the flaw in it, and the flaw had not appeared in two days of looking so I was ready to say it out loud to someone who would tell me honestly if I was wrong.I needed to hear myself say it.And I needed someone who understood the mechanics to tell me whether there was something wrong.He answered on the second ring."I want to file a formal complaint," I said.A pause. "Against who?""The athletics board has a code of conduct for athletes," I said. "It covers public behaviour, representation of the programme, actions that bring the athletics complex into disrepute." I had read it three times before I called him. "What Avery has been doing for m
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 333: Spreading
Avery's POVMy phone started going off at eleven on Friday morning.It was not a single message. It was not a notification from one account or one person. The kind of buzzing where multiple things arrive at the same time and the phone does not stop chiming. I picked it up and there were seventeen notifications and more coming in while I was looking at the first one.The first was from Mia.‘Avery. Have you seen what is going around? Call me.’I opened the message and the preview showed the next one below it. Chloe. Then a number I did not have saved. Then another unknown number. Then Priya. Then a name from the squad I had not expected to hear from, a girl called Simone who had been in the background all semester and had never once texted me directly.I put the phone down and tried to breathe first.I picked it up again.I opened the footage.It was a clip from the club. Not the full performance. Three to five seconds cuts joined together. Then there it was. The turn, the mask coming
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 332: Aftermath
Brianna's POVAfter Avery had been exposed, the group met again.Not at the bar this time. Colton had suggested his flat and none of us had objected because the bar was in the same neighbourhood as the Velvet Underground and none of us needed to be anywhere near the Velvet Underground after what we did. His place was across campus, the kind of place that existed in the zone between student housing and actual adult accommodation.He poured coffee without asking who wanted it and put four cups on the table.I sat down. Zoey sat across from me. Nikki came in last and sat at the end of the table and looked at the coffee and did not touch it."Last night," Colton said."Last night," I agreed.He sat down and looked at each of us in turn with the expression he used when he was taking inventory of a situation. "Nikki. How are the staff talking about it?""Wardrobe malfunction," Nikki told us. "That is the consensus. Some of them are embarrassed about it because the venue has a reputation for
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 331: Money
Avery's POVOn saturday morning I was at the kitchen table with my laptop open, my banking app on one tab, my bills on another, and a piece of paper covered in numbers that did not add up no matter how I arranged them.Mortgage payment: due in fifteen days.Utilities: due in ten.Phone contract: automated payment on the twenty-second.Food: ongoing and non-negotiable.The number in the account had two weeks of Scarlett income in it. Money I had been counting on since I started working at the Velvet underground club. Money that was not coming in anymore because I had ended the thing that generated it with a phone call yesterday afternoon.I did the calculation three different ways hoping one of them would come out differently. None of them did. I could cover the mortgage if I did not pay utilities. I could cover utilities if I delayed the phone contract and hoped they did not cut the line before I could catch up. I could not cover all of it. Not this month. Not without the weekly inc
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 330: Done
Avery's POV I also called my manager on Friday afternoon. Not at five PM which was my deadline. I had told myself I would use every hour the manager had given me. But by early afternoon I knew what I was going to say and waiting until the deadline was not going to make it any clearer. It was just bothering me for longer than I needed to. I dialled Tony's number and it rang twice. "Scarlett," he said. His voice was warm and professional. He had nine years of experience running a performing venue and I guess he was an expert on how to speak to people in difficult moments. "I have made a decision," I told him. "I am glad you called," he told me. "I am not coming back," I said to him. He was quiet. Not the silence of surprise. The silence of a man who had obviously had countless workers come and go over the years. "I hear you," he said. "Can I ask if this is because of what happened on Wednesday or whether this is something you had been thinking about before?" "Both," I told him.
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 329: Read
Avery's POVI texted Jade on Thursday evening.It was not a long message. I was not ready for one. I sent, “Hey. Can we talk?”It was just four words. The minimum. The message that left space for her to say yes or no.I watched the screen for twenty minutes.Read. The small word appeared under the message. She had read it. But she had not replied.I put the phone down and looked at the wall.Our houses were not identical but they were right next to each other. If I stood at my kitchen counter and looked in a certain direction I could see the corner of her front window. Her car was in the driveway. She was home and she had chosen not to reply.I took the chair at the kitchen table and sat in front of a cup of coffee as usual. I tried to think about something else. But I could not think about anything else.I decided to give her some space for the night.On Friday morning I sent another one.‘Jade, I know you are processing. I know I have asked a lot of you this year without meaning to.
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 054: Satisfaction
Liam's POVI hated being late. But some idiot ran a red light and caused an accident, which delayed everyone. I turned onto our street a little after seven PM and I could see Avery and Jade on the doorstep before I had even pulled all the way to the curb.They were standing close together, Avery in
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 052: In front of her
Avery's POVWe both turned around at the same time.A dark car was parked just past the lamppost in front of the house. The engine was still running and the headlights on. From the car alone I knew exactly who it was. The driver's door opened and Liam stepped out and leaned against the side of the
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 050: Getting ready
Avery's POVGetting ready for a proper date was different from getting ready for a shift at Velvet Underground and the difference hit me the moment I opened the wardrobe door. For the club, the process was automatic. Wig in, makeup and mask on, costume, done. Twenty minutes and Avery ceased to exis
Falling for My Best Friend's Brother 049: She said yes
Liam's POVShe finally said yes to going out with me and I drove home thinking about it.Not in a complicated way. In the way you thought about something that had gone better than expected and you were trying to work out what to do with the gap between what you had planned and what had actually hap
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