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Chapter 30: Technically, It Wasn't My Fault
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The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 36: Everything We Tried To Forget
NOAH'S POVIt started raining at nine forty-seven.I know the exact time because I was on the court running free throws when the first crack of thunder hit, and I checked my phone out of habit, and the weather app said severe storm warning until 2AM in the cheerful way weather apps delivered bad news. I kept shooting.The thing about storms at Ridgewood was that they came in from the mountain pass to the north and they arrived fast and they arrived with no warning drizzle. One minute the sky was clear and the next the whole world was water and thunder. I'd been caught in one before so I knew better than to think about that.I shot until my arm ached and then I shot some more. My phone buzzed at ten twenty-three.Ethan: Seen Elena? She left the library twenty mins ago and she's not answering her phone. Storm's getting really bad.I stood at the free throw line and read the message twice. I was out the gym door in forty seconds.I had no jacket. The cold hit immediately and completely
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 35: You Don't Get To Do That
ELENA'S POV "You're in my seat."I looked up from my laptop. Noah was standing on the other side of the media room table with a coffee cup in each hand and the expression of someone who had decided to be difficult about something small because they couldn't be honest about something large."There are eleven other seats in this room," I said."I always sit there.""You don't even come to the media room.""I'm here now."I looked at him. He looked at me. Three days had passed since the showcase. Three days since go back to whatever hole you crawled out of had come out of his mouth in front of sixty people and landed somewhere in my chest that still hadn't fully recovered. Three days of complete silence. Nothing.And now he was here. Standing over me with two cups of coffee like the last seventy-two hours hadn't happened. Like he hadn't said what he'd said in front of my supervisors and my peers and the faculty members whose opinions had actual consequences for my career.Like I was jus
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 34: You Were Fine Before You Came Back
NOAH'S POVI knew she was going to be there.That was the thing I kept coming back to afterward — I had known, and I had gone anyway, and everything that followed was a consequence of that decision that I was going to have to live with for however long it took the memory of her face to stop doing what it was currently doing inside my chest.The end of semester media showcase was mandatory. Dr. Reyes had sent the team an official request through the athletics department, which meant Coach had made it non-negotiable, which meant forty-five minutes in the main hall watching student journalists present their mid-project coverage to a room full of faculty, sponsors, and anyone else the department had decided mattered enough to invite.I sat in the third row with Ethan on my left and Marcus on my right and told myself I was fine.She presented fifth.She walked to the front of the room in dark jeans and a simple white shirt with her hair down and her recorder in her hand and she looked like
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 33: Oops! I Wasn't Supposed To See That
ELENA'S POVI was looking for Ethan.That is the only reason I was in that corridor, and I need that established clearly because what happened next was not my fault and I will not be accepting responsibility for a door that was already standing open when I got there.Ethan had my memory card. He'd borrowed it the way brothers borrowed everything — without asking and with the complete confidence of someone who'd spent his entire life being forgiven by the people who loved him. He'd texted me saying he was in the back corridor near the changing rooms, so I went. I knocked once on the door that was already ajar, heard nothing and pushed it open.Well, you can all guess who it was.Noah was standing with his back to the door, his game jersey already off, reaching for the clean one hanging on the hook in front of him. He was completely unaware that anyone had come in, and for one second I was simply there, in the doorway, taking in the scene before my brain caught up and told me to leave.
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 32: This Has Nothing To Do With Jealousy
NOAH'S POVMarcus told me.Not because Marcus was a gossip. No, Marcus was the least gossip person on this entire roster, the man communicated in single syllables and meaningful silences and the occasional nod that somehow conveyed a full paragraph. But he found me after Thursday's practice, waited until everyone else had cleared out, and said: "Your media girl was in the film room with Jax for two hours today."Then he walked away. That was the whole conversation. The thing about Jax was this—he was good. Genuinely, infuriatingly good, the kind of player who made everything look easy because for him it mostly was. And he knew it. Jax Rivera had been aware of his own magnetism since roughly the age of fourteen and had spent every year since then working with it like a tool. Smooth, funny, the first one to make a new person feel welcome in any room. He was exactly the kind of person Elena would get good material from.I wasn't bothered by it. I want to be clear about that. I changed ou
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 31: The Boy Who Still Knows How To Ruin A Room
ELENA'S POVHere's the thing about panic attacks. They don't care that you were fine five minutes ago. They don't care that you were actually laughing genuinely or that Lora had just successfully convinced a business major to attempt the running man, or that for the first time since coming back to Ridgewood you'd forgotten, just briefly, to be afraid of something.They just show up. Pick their moment. Burn the whole night down and mine picked the drinks table.I'd slipped out of the main room to grab a refill and the back corridor was narrow and badly lit and I was squeezing through when I saw him.Lucas was half in shadow at the far end of the hall, talking to someone I didn't know. He hadn't seen me. My body made every decision after that without consulting me. I mean even a toddler could tell the signs of a panic attack first hand without reciting the alphabets. I turned around and walked out. I was not going to run. I found the side stairwell and went through the door and let it
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