All Chapters of Falling for My Best Friend's Brother: Chapter 301 - Chapter 310

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301: Brooding

Liam's POVI stood in my hallway after dropping Avery home, leaned against the wall, and looked at the floor. I thought about Scarlett's voice telling me that some things cannot be taken back once they are said.She had been standing right there. Three feet from me. The mask covering the upper half of her face and the wig covering her hair and her eyes looking at me through the eye holes the way they had always done in the private room, with the attention she gave to things she had decided mattered. Except she had not been honest with me tonight. She had been kind and she had been careful and she had been deliberate about whatever she was protecting. But she had not been honest.I went to the kitchen and poured water and drank it standing at the sink.She most likely attended Crestwood. I was certain of that even though she had not confirmed it. The video was circulating on campus groups. The comments were coming from people who recognised the venue and the movements. She had not d

302: Push harder

Brianna's POVThe four of us met on a Tuesday evening at the same bar Nikki had chosen the first time because it was the only location all four of us had agreed worked.The post had been up for five days. I had been watching the numbers seriously.I tracked it methodically. The trajectory was what we had expected. It was not viral. Neither was it dead. it was moving at the speed campus content moved, fast enough to reach anyone in the Crestwood orbit within a week, slow enough that nobody outside it would care.Six hundred and forty-two shares. Two hundred and eleven comments. Three separate reposts to campus-affiliated accounts.The comments were the part I had been watching most carefully. Not for the count. For the quality. In the first forty-eight hours, most of them were emojis and venue tags,even though they were just tagging random step clubs. By day three, some people had said she looks familiar. By day five, someone had said she moves like someone I know and that comment ha

303: The message

Avery's POVLiam was in my kitchen fixing a sandwich when the message arrived. We spent more time at my place to avoid rubbing our relationship in Jade's face.It was Friday at half past five. He had come over after training to drive me to work as usual. He really insisted on being an intentional boyfriend to help me save gas money.I was standing at the counter putting things in my bag while he sat at the table talking about the away game next weekend when my phone buzzed.I picked it up expecting a text from Gerald or a notification from the squad group chat.It was a direct message from a social media account I did not recognise.No profile picture. No posts. No followers. The account had been created that day. The message was three sentences long.I read them."Avery?" Liam asked. "You still with me?"I looked up from my phone. He was mid-sentence and had noticed I was gone."Sorry," I told him. "Just a notification. Give me a second."I picked up my bag and my phone, went to the

304: Almost

Avery's POV I got through Friday's set. I do not know how. I stood on that stage for forty-five minutes with the message sitting in me and I moved and the audience gave back the energy. I came off, changed, walked back to the community centre, texted Liam, let him drive me home and said nothing the whole way. I was really getting exhausted with the back and forth and I was not sure I could take it anymore. I lay in bed until three in the morning not sleeping and then gave up and started assembling the words to end my misery instead. I spent all of Saturday trying to say them. Not the words themselves. I had the words. They had been in my head since three in the morning, the same sentence going around the same track, the way it did when you were terrified of saying it. Liam, I need to tell you something. That was the opening. Clean and direct. The kind of sentence he would hear and put down whatever he was doing and give me his full attention because that was who he was. He wo

305: Extra plan

Brianna's POVIt was now ten days after the anonymous message was sent to Avery with the blank account and nothing had changed.I was at the table with my phone open to the video post, scrolling through the comments for the fourth time that afternoon, and nothing in it had changed from the day before. The clip was still circulating. The shares had reached nine hundred. People were still commenting, still tagging friends, still saying things and wondering who she is and swearing that they know her. But nobody had named her. Nobody had connected Scarlett to Avery Nash publicly. And Avery herself had done absolutely nothing.That was the part that was making Colton angry."She received the message," he said. We were at the bar again, the four of us, the corner table that had become ours by default. "She received it on her personal account. She knows we have her name. She knows we know about the boyfriend they she's scared to loose. And she has not done a single thing differently.""She h

306: Closer

Avery's POVI couldn't get myself to tell Liam the truth anymore and I just decided to endure the situation till it died down. But it just got worse. Jade sent me a link on Thursday.That was the part that stopped me. Not the video itself. Not the fact that a second clip existed. The fact that Jade, who had no connection to the Velvet Underground or Scarlett or any of it, had come across the video on her own feed and sent it to me with a message attached. "Have you seen this? Whoever this is, she is really good."She had no idea she was sending me a video of myself.I was in the library when the message arrived. Thursday afternoon. Students around me working quietly. My phone face up on the desk. Jade's name and the link and the words that had no idea what they were carrying.I picked up my phone and pressed play.It was longer than the first one. Over two minutes. The angle was different, closer to the stage, from the left side of the room. The image was clearer than the first clip

307: Side by side

Avery's POVI was at cheer practice the next day when Mia showed me her phone.She did not know what she was showing me. That was the thing that made it worse. She walked over during the water break with her phone held out and said, "Have you seen this? There is a whole thread about it on the Crestwood forum."I took the phone from her and looked at the screen and something in me stopped.It was two images. Side by side.On the left was a screenshot from the second video. Scarlett mid-performance, mask covering the upper half of her face, wig changing her hair, the warm amber lighting of the Velvet Underground behind her. On the right was a photograph of me from the Crestwood athletics page. Avery Nash. Cheer captain. Looking directly at the camera in my uniform with my squad behind me and my hair pulled back and my full face visible.Between the two images was a question mark.The forum post underneath the images said: Anyone else seeing what I am seeing or am I losing it?"It looks

308: Camparing

Liam's POVTate dropped his phone on the bench in front of me at training and said, "Have you seen this?"I picked it up. The screen was open to the team group chat and someone had shared a link to the Crestwood campus forum with a message underneath it that said: yo Liam your girl has a twin lmaooo."What is this?" I asked."Open it," Tate said.I tapped the link.Two images loaded side by side on the screen. On the left was a screenshot from the video that had been circulating for nearly two weeks. The performer. The mask. The wig. The warm lighting of the Velvet Underground. On the right was a photograph I recognised immediately because I had seen it a hundred times on the Crestwood athletics page. My girlfriend Avery in her captain's uniform with her hair pulled back and her face fully visible and the squad arranged behind her.Between the two images was a question mark.I stared at the screen."People are losing their minds over it," Tate said. He sat down next to me and looked a

309: Asking Jade

Liam's POVI found Jade in the kitchen later that evening.She was at the counter with a textbook open and a pen between her teeth and music on her phone, and she looked up when I came in the way she always did."Hey," she said around the pen."I need to ask you something," I told her. I went straight to the point because there was no need to pretend I was in her space for anything else.She took the pen out of her mouth. "That tone is never good," she said."Have you seen the forum post?" I asked."Which one?" she asked. "There are about forty posts a day on that forum and most of them are garbage.""The one comparing Avery to the videos of a stripper from a club in town," I told her.Jade looked at me for a second. Then she laughed.Not a polite laugh. A real one."You are not serious," she told me."I am asking a question," I told her."Yes I have seen it," she told me. "Mia sent it to me. And Chloe. And about four other people because apparently the entire campus has nothing bette

310: Too smooth

Liam's POVI couldn't stop thinking about the situation and decided that I needed to ask Avery.I waited until Thursday evening.Not because I needed the time. I had made the decision to ask her the moment I walked out of the kitchen with Jade. The waiting was strategic. I needed the right setting and the right moment and I needed her to be relaxed enough that her first response would be honest rather than managed.I had learned that about Avery. The managed responses came when she saw the question coming. The honest ones came when she did not.She was at my place after practice. We had ordered food and she was on the sofa with her legs across my lap and her phone on her chest, telling me about a formation change Vega had suggested that she was not sure about."You think Vega is right?" I asked."I think Vega is experienced," she told me. "That is not the same thing as being right. She has been coaching for twelve years and sometimes twelve years of doing the same thing makes you conf

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