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Chapter 132: Moving out
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Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 136: My place
Minah found me in the coatroom.Her voice floated among the hanging garments, twirling between them like wind through the trees."Cecily?"I held my breath, hoping she wouldn't look behind the second-last row of coats, praying she wouldn't see me sitting on the ground in the corner with tears in my eyes. There were a thousand reasons I didn't want to be discovered and only most of them were because of my feelings for Axel. A few of them were because it was Minah's wedding day and she shouldn't have to deal with a crying bridesmaid.It was supposed to be her day.When she appeared at the end of the row of coats, I thought perhaps her eyes would gloss over me. Maybe I could pass as a pile of rags in the corner, a sad, forgotten lump of fabric, invisible and intangible, worth more as a simple pile of rags than it would be with myself included."What are you... are you crying?""No." I wiped my cheeks furiously as Minah started down the row, the skirt of her dress trailing behind her."Ce
Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 135: Happy for you
"...the best wedding party we could possibly ask for. I have to give a special thanks to one of my bridesmaids. Not that you aren't all completely amazing, but, well... Cecily, can you stand up for a sec?"Me?Oh, God. She was going to tell everyone. She knew, she had heard me, and she was going to tell everyone in the room that I was in love with Axel and that I touched myself to the thoughts and sounds of them fucking and that I was obsessed I was a creep I was gross and creepy and weird and wrong and—"Cecily?"I stared at her for a moment, stricken with nerves. Minah smiled gently and gestured for me to stand. I staggered to my feet, shoulders tense, ready to bolt the moment she revealed my secrets to everyone."If you don't know my best friend Cecily Larch, you are doing yourself a disservice. Cecily is the sweetest, kindest, most caring person I know. She's brilliant and creative and an incredibly talented poet." Minah beamed at me from where she stood. "And if it weren't for Ce
Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 134: Something’s Wrong
Two weeks before the wedding, Minah and Axel had everyone in the bridal party over to their place for dinner. I didn't know if rumours of my strange behaviour had spread to everyone or if I was just particularly withdrawn that night, but I found myself sitting next to Axel on the couch as the party went on without us.There was a forcefield of misery on that couch. The joy from the party hit the air around us and stuck our glass shield before trickling to the ground, like a bird on a window, like blood on a wall, dribbling down and down till it hit the floor with a splat. Axel's eyes were focused forward, watching Minah. My eyes were focused forward, watching anything but Axel. Every so often, Minah glanced in our direction, something foreign and unreadable in her warm eyes."Are you okay?" I finally asked."Yep."I kept my head straight but flicked my eyes toward him. He didn't move, just continued watching Minah."Are you sure?"His Adam's apple bobbed just slightly as he swallowed.
Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 133: My Axel
Even having moved, everything was still the same for me. Minah applied for a business loan to get her yoga studio started. Axel was promoted from junior video editor to video editor. I still worked the same shitty job at the art store. Still made almost no money by writing. Still obsessing over Axel, still knew it was wrong, still couldn't stop.Minah suggested getting together at least once a week. I always said yes.At first, Axel was there every time. The more he was there, the more I convinced myself he knew exactly what was going through my mind at any given moment. The more I convinced myself of that, the quieter I became around him, until I caught myself responding to questions only in my mind."How are things going?" he asked one day.it's going terribly i'm miserable and i miss youThere was a long, long pause."Uh... Cecily?""Sorry," I said. "I was... thinking. Things are going fine."He stared at me, nodded slightly, and looked to Minah to continue the conversation.I stop
Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 132: Moving out
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and the obsession stronger.I shouldn't have assumed being away from Axel would help me get past it. If anything, it made it worse. I conveniently forgot that I'd fallen in love with him before he lived with me and Minah, conveniently told myself that moving out would be a good thing, that it would be a cure for my poor, unwell mind.My new home was a basement suite two blocks from work. It was small, dark, and old. Being in a basement, it should have been cold all the time, but instead it was sweltering hot. Air hung like cobwebs throughout; thick strings of dangling heat. Walking from my bedroom to the kitchen was like swimming. Even opening the windows didn't seem to help; the air was immobile, as much a part of my apartment as the walls and the floors and the fixtures.Still, as Minah and Axel helped me unload the boxes and furniture I'd taken, I was hopeful. It wasn't until we finished bringing my stuff in and were standing amongst towers of ca
Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 131: Long Day
I wrote the best poetry of my life during the time I lived with Axel and Minah. It was really the only good thing that came of it.I wrote constantly, nightly, daily, eagerly and fanatically. Most of the poems never saw the light of day. Two of them earned me A's in my Advanced Creative Writing class, and one of them was published in an anthology. The rest were too disturbing to even leave in writing. I ripped page after page from my notebook, tearing the sheets into tiny pieces of confetti, and threw them off our balcony to scatter in the wind, or flushed them down the toilet, or just buried them beneath the trash in the kitchen.Minah and I graduated when Axel still had a year of school left. I began looking for jobs, something that would supplement any meagre income I scrounged from my writing. I applied at publishing houses and newspapers, then bookstores and libraries, then finally got a job as a sales associate at the fine art supply store near campus. My lack of knowledge about
Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 28: Enough of the Sex Talk
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Last Updated : 2026-03-20Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 29: Power Nap
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Last Updated : 2026-03-20Rule Number One: My Brother's Best Friend Chapter 31: To the Beautiful You
"What?" Properly awake now, I sat bolt upright with horror, immediately noticing two things. One—it was almost dark outside. There was no way I'd only been asleep for half an hour. And two—I was still wearing my shirt and jeans. The shirt and jeans I'd planned to change out of when I went home at t
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"Roxanne Delaney!" Hoping my use of her full name would impart just the right amount of outraged indignation, I flapped a hand at her. "Go away! Let me eat my lunch in peace.And grimacing at the sound of her laughter as she left, I gave up my half-hearted attempt to eat my sandwich, wrapping it ba
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