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Chapter 36: Everything We Tried To Forget
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2026-05-11 17:53:51
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NOAH’S POVI was halfway through taping my left ankle when the first phone chimed then a second. Within ten seconds, the room was a symphony of digital alerts. Jax was standing by the equipment rack. He looked at his screen, his face draining of colour until he looked like he’d been carved from chalk. He didn't say a word. He just walked over and dropped his phone into my lap.I didn't have to scroll. The headline from The Ridgewood Insider was already screaming at me in bold, black-and-white malice.BLIND ITEM: The Wreckage of a Golden Boy.Which star Raven is flying on clipped wings? Word is that a certain 'Captain' didn't just earn his stripes on the court. Years ago, a midnight drive in a certain canyon ended in a wreckage that was bought. A girl took the fall, a career was saved, and the truth was buried under a six-figure 'donation.' But ghosts have a way of digging themselves up. Tic-toc, Noah. The clock is striking twelve.My vision tunneled and the air in the room turned into
The Girl He Never Knew Chapter 37: For The Record, I'm Not Thinking About Last Night
ELENA'S POV "You left your scarf in the alcove." Noah said it across the breakfast table like he was reporting the weather. I looked at him. He looked at his food. Ethan, sitting between us, looked at the ceiling with the expression of someone who had made a personal commitment to staying out of it and was finding that commitment genuinely difficult to honour."Thank you," I said."It's on the bench outside the media room.""Okay.""It was still there this morning.""Noah.""Just making sure you knew.""I know. Thank you."He nodded and continued not making eye contact with the dedicated focus of someone disarming a bomb. I wrapped both hands around my coffee cup and stared into it and thought about the alcove and the concrete floor and his arm around my shoulders and the way he'd said I'm not going anywhere in the dark.Then I thought about the fact that we were currently sitting at a breakfast table pretending none of that had happened.This was fine. Everything was fine.The thin
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
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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.
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