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2026-08-14 14:17:59
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Once in a lifetime Too Close to Call
Chapter 8: Too Close to CallElias I gave up on sleep around one and went downstairs for no reason I could name, just needing to be somewhere that wasn’t my room with its thin wall and its view of a hallway I’d started listening to too closely.The kitchen light was already on.Asher was at the counter, not doing anything in particular, glass of water in front of him he didn’t seem to be drinking. He looked up when I came in and didn’t say anything clever, which was its own kind of surprise.“Couldn’t sleep either,” he said.“No.”I got a glass down and filled it, more for something to do with my hands than because I wanted it, and leaned against the counter a few feet from him. Neither of us said anything for a while. The house ticked and settled around us, pipes and old wood, the sound of a place that had absorbed a lot in the last two weeks without anyone else in it knowing.“Feels like we’ve been performing something for a long time,” he said eventually.“We have been.”“I’m tire
Once in a lifetime Watching
Chapter 7: Watching Asher I used to needle Elias because it was funny. Somewhere in the last week, that had quietly stopped being the reason. I still did it. Maybe more than before, actually — small comments at breakfast, a hand too close to his on the way out the door, a look held a half-second longer than it needed to be during warmup. All of it read as the same old rivalry to anyone watching. It wasn’t the same, and I knew it wasn’t, and I kept doing it anyway because it was still the only way I had of getting an honest reaction out of him in public. “You’re staring at my splits again,” he said at the wall, towelling his face. “Your splits are staring back. There is nothing I can do about that.” He almost smiled. Caught himself. Buried it. I watched the whole process happen and filed it away like I’d started filing away everything about him lately, more carefully than I wanted to admit. That evening, the house nearly caught us. We were in the upstairs hallway, nothi
Once in a lifetime Cracks
Chapter 6: Cracks POV: Elias By Thursday I'd stopped sleeping properly. It wasn't one thing. It was the sum of everything — his toothbrush next to mine in the cup, his voice through the wall at night, the way Reyes had started saying "you two" like it was one word, the fact that I could no longer walk into a room in my own house without first checking whether he was in it. Four days of a system I used to control had turned into something I couldn't get a grip on no matter how hard I tried. Training didn't help. If anything it made it worse — an hour and a half of him next to me in the water, matching me, occasionally surfacing just to say something that meant nothing to anyone but us, and by the time we hit the wall on the last set my jaw ached from clenching it. "You're off today," he said, shaking water out of his hair. "I'm fine." "Didn't say you weren't fine. Said you're off." He said it lightly, the way he said everything, but I was in no mood for light. "Maybe I'm off be
Once in a lifetime Under One Roof
Chapter 5: Under One Roof Asher Elias had a system for the bathroom. Towel on the left hook, toothbrush at a precise forty-five-degree angle in the cup, shower first, always exactly six minutes, like he was still racing a clock even when nobody was timing him. I learned all of this in four days of sharing a wall, and I found every part of it stupidly entertaining. “You’re doing it again,” he said Tuesday morning, catching me leaning in his doorway watching him knot his tie. “Doing what.” “Staring.” “Studying my competition. New house rules.” I pushed off the doorframe, unbothered, and reached past him for the towel he’d just hung with military precision. He caught my wrist before I could mess with it. “Don’t.” “Relax, Kann.” Down the hall, I heard Diane’s voice, something about breakfast, close enough that Elias’s whole posture shifted in half a second, cold and careful, the version of himself he kept ready for parents. I matched it without missing a beat, dropped the towel,
Once in a lifetime The House
Chapter 4: The HouseElias “His name is Marcus,” my mother said. “Marcus Hale.” I already knew where this was going before she finished the sentence. I’d known the second she asked me to sit down at the kitchen table instead of talking to me from across the room like she usually did. “Hale,” I repeated. “You know him. Well, you know his son.” She was watching my face carefully. The way she did when she already suspected an answer wouldn’t be simple. “Asher. You two swim together.” “We’re on the same team.” My voice came out flat, even exactly the way I wanted it to. “I know this is a lot.” She reached across the table like she might take my hand, then didn’t. “Marcus and I have been seeing each other for months. It’s serious. We’re getting married in the spring, and there’s a logistics piece — his house is bigger, better location for your training, and it makes sense for you to move in with us once the wedding date is set. Sooner, actually. He wants us settled before then.” Mo
Once in a lifetime No Distance
Chapter 3: No DistanceElias Six a.m. and Asher was already in the water when I got there, which shouldn’t have bothered me and did anyway.“Morning, partner,” he said, not even out of breath, like the word tasted good in his mouth.“Don’t call me that.”“What should I call you. Elias? Kann? Something else?” He grinned up at me from the water, easy, infuriating. “I’m flexible.”Coach Reyes blew the whistle before I had to answer, which was the only good thing that happened in the next hour.The set was brutal by design—mixed intervals, no rest between, meant to simulate race fatigue. Asher stayed on my hip the entire way, matching my splits stroke for stroke like it cost him nothing, occasionally surfacing just long enough to say something under his breath that only I could hear. Nothing dirty. Nothing he needed to be. Just enough to keep me from settling into any kind of rhythm that didn’t include him.“You’re dropping your elbow on the pull,” he said at the wall, halfway through.“
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