All Chapters of Puck Me, One More Time: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Chapter 31 — Coach Dan believes her.

Liam's POV"Move!"Ken's voice cut through everything — the laughter, the splashing, the whole circus of it — and then he was already in the air. He hit the water in a clean dive that sent a wave outward in every direction, catching everyone close enough to the surface off guard. The students nearest to him stumbled back. Eric and Lauren instinctively moved away from the impact zone before they had even fully registered who had just entered the pool.He came up fast and was already crossing toward me before the water had settled."Hey. Hey." He reached me and got both hands on my shoulders, steadying me like he needed to confirm I was still in one piece before anything else happened. His eyes moved across my face quickly, checking and reading every detail of it. "Are you okay?"I did not fully answer that. Mostly because I was still processing the fact that he was here at all.Then I noticed what he had in his hand. It was something dark which was folded tight, that he had been carryi

Chapter 32 — Fuck yourself for all I care.

Ken's POV"No, Coach Dan. Come on." I stepped forward before the coach could fully turn away because the way things were going, Liam had run out of words and someone needed to fill that gap right now. "Liam is not that type of guy to go streaking. They are clearly lying against him. You can ask any…""Save your side of the story for Ms. Scott when this gets to her." Coach Dan cut me off with both his words and his hand as he already had his palm up, pointed directly at my face. It was more of the universal gesture of someone who had made their decision and was not entertaining further input. Then he turned to the rest of the pool and clapped his hands together twice. "As for everyone else…get back to swimming. Back to swimming, come on. Move it."The pool slowly returned to noise around us. Students drifted back to what they had been doing, some more reluctantly than others — the ones who had been watching the most closely, taking their time about it and stealing last looks before tur

Chapter 33 — I am not done with them.

Ken's POV"Feeling brave because your prince charming showed up, huh?" Eric's voice came from somewhere behind me, sharp and bitter — and I already knew before I finished turning around that he was not directing it at me. He was looking straight at Liam. "You are still a coward."That kinda classic Eric. The moment a situation stopped going his way he redirected the energy at whoever was the safest target. And right now, with his shorts somewhere on the other side of the pool and his dignity not far behind them, he needed somewhere to put all of that embarrassment fast. Liam was the obvious choice because Eric had always gone for the person least likely to hit back.What he kept miscalculating was that I was always exactly one step to the left of Liam.Liam said nothing. Not because he had nothing to say, at least I had seen enough of him by now to know his silence was a choice, not an absence. He was just not going to give Eric the reaction he was fishing for and that was actually th

Chapter 34 — You are not slipping away that easy, tutor.

Ken's POVThe restroom was right there as it's barely thirty steps from the pool edge. And so, the moment Liam disappeared through the entrance I was already moving after him. I could not have known the reason exactly if someone had stopped me to ask. I just knew the look on his face when he turned to leave and I was not going to stand in the pool and let that walk away without checking on it.I pushed through the entrance and the noise from the pool fell behind me immediately, replaced by the quieter echo of the tiled space inside. Liam was already at the far end, standing with his side to me, one leg crossed slightly over the other, I guess looking at nothing in particular with that expression he must have got when his head was somewhere his face was not ready to go."Hey." My voice came out lower in here, the space pulling it down naturally. "Are you okay?"He turned at the sound of it, finding my eyes as I moved toward one of the rooms further in. Something in his face adjusted wh

Chapter 35 —Uncomfortable about Coach Dan's sudden presence.

Ken's POV"And I like that." I whispered it close to his ear and then kissed it — once, slowly, and then again, because once was never enough when it came to Liam and the way he went still underneath something he was not ready to admit he wanted.My hands moved with the quiet confidence of someone who had been paying attention… finding the parts of him that responded before his brain could tell them not to, covering ground slowly because there was no reason to rush what felt this good to take time with.Then I pulled back just enough to look at him properly. With our eyes locked and the small space between us holding everything neither of us had put into words yet."What do you want?" He asked it quietly, while those eyes carried that specific combination of scared and certain that I had come to recognize as the most honest version of Liam. Which was the one that showed up when the walls finally ran out of height."Oh, that." I let the corner of my mouth move. "I think we both already

Chapter 36 — Losing it completely.

Liam's POV"Liam."Coach Dan's voice came in from the entrance and I straightened up against the wall immediately, keeping my shoulder blades flat. Also, keeping my expression as neutral as I could manage while my heart was doing something completely unreasonable inside my chest.He looked around the restroom slowly — not frantically, just the quiet, observational sweep of someone who had walked into a space and was taking stock of it. Whether that was just habit or whether he was actually looking for something specific, I could not tell. But the guilty conscience sitting in my chest was doing its best to read everything as suspicious."Everybody has already changed." He said, having his eyes settle on me. "What are you up to?""Nothing." I kept my voice steady. Or as close to steady as I could get it right now. "I will be out in a second."He held the look for just a moment in that neutral, unreadable expression coaches kept in rotation for exactly these kinds of situations. And then

Chapter 37 — What was that sound?

Liam's POV"So no, not at all." I finally added after a little pause as Ken mercifully gave me a moment of breathing space from his unnecessary touching. "Like I already said, I think you may have to ask somebody who is closer with Ken because I haven't seen him."I even flipped my head slightly as I said it. Although it was not planned, just something my body decided would add conviction and apparently it did something because the response I got back was at least partially workable."Yeah. Okay." Coach Dan said it slowly, in that way people said things when they were not fully convinced but had run out of specific reasons to keep pushing. He looked around the restroom one more time with that faint, unsettled expression of someone whose instincts were flagging something they could not pinpoint, and then turned slightly like he was finally about to leave.I let myself breathe.And then Ken's hand moved almost immediately I had thought he already finally decided to behave his old age.I

Chapter 38 — Still waiting for that answer.

Liam's POV"What was that sound?" Coach Dan was fully turned back around, having his eyes on me while the question sat in the restroom air like something that needed an answer immediately and I was not going to pretend otherwise.There was no time to think. None at all.Then, I pulled my palm from my lips and placed it back flat against the wall behind me while my defense instincts doubled up. "Something… dropped." Although I ended up stuttering without meaning to, the words arriving before the sentence was fully ready. I knew the moment they left my mouth that it was not enough as it was too short and too bare. It all felt like the kind of statement that raised more questions than it answered. So I pushed forward before the silence could fill in the gap. "So it really scared me."Coach Dan looked at me.Then he looked around the restroom — at the floor, at the space on either side of me, at the general absence of anything that could have plausibly fallen and produced that specific so

Chapter 39 — What drives me crazy most about you.

Liam's POV"I think you like me." He said it quietly, biting his lower lip in that way he had — slow and deliberate, like everything he did was thought about first even when it looked effortless.I looked at him. At the arms still pinned on either side of me against the wall, at the distance between us that was close enough to be a conversation of its own. At the fact that we were still in a school restroom where Coach Dan had been standing not five minutes ago and neither of us had moved."I will give you my answer as soon as I have that acceptance letter in my hands." The words came out before I had fully decided to say them, landing in the space between us with a kind of honesty I had not planned for. "And until then, I can't think about anything else."I brought both palms up and placed them flat against his chest. The warmth of him came through immediately and I could feel his heartbeat which went in steadily and unhurriedly. You know, it was nothing like mine which was doing som

Chapter 40 — 'Cloud Nine' kind of feeling.

Liam's POVI shook my head slowly because even though I could already guess it was going somewhere that Ken had been building toward for the last five minutes, I still wanted to hear him say it. "What?" I whispered back.He dropped his voice down to something low and deliberate, still careful about the volume, his hands moving with that quiet confidence that had been dismantling my composure piece by piece since we got into this restroom.There was a beat of silence between us — not awkward, just full. The kind that happened when two people were standing close enough to feel each other's warmth and neither of them was in a rush to break what was sitting in the air."Like watching you lose control." He said it simply without any buildup or even performance. Just the words landing clean and warm in the space between us.I held his gaze for a second after that. Because there was something about hearing it said out loud directly, without dressing it up… which settled into my chest differe

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