All Chapters of Falling for My Best Friend's Brother: Chapter 391 - Chapter 400

Avery's POVJade moved without anyone noticing, slipping backward along the fence on her side towards the back while every eye on that path stayed locked on Dean and Carter, on the gun still wavering between them, catching the light every time his hand shook. I only registered the movement out of the very corner of my eye, a shift of shadow that could have been anything, and I was grateful, in that moment, for how completely Dean's attention had narrowed down to Carter alone.I only realised she was in my house now when I heard, faintly, the sound of the back door easing shut behind her, careful, deliberate, the kind of quiet that came from someone trying very hard not to be heard.She had likely come in through the back fence gate and then the kitchen.I did not dare look away from Dean to check where she had gone, could not risk drawing his attention toward the house, toward anything that might tip whatever fragile balance was holding this moment together. But I could hear fragments

Avery's POVThey took statements one at a time, each of us in a different corner of the front garden. An officer worked through the same questions with each of us in turn, patient and methodical. The afternoon light had gone down while none of us were paying attention. Longer shadows stretched across the grass. The ordinary business of a day continuing regardless of what had almost happened in the middle of it.I gave mine standing near the door. My voice was steadier than I expected. The details came out in order, plain and simple, the way I had learned to say hard things without softening them."Take your time," the officer told me, when I paused partway through describing the gun. "There is no rush.""I would rather just finish it. If I stop I do not think I will be able to start again properly."He nodded and let me continue.When it was done, the officer doing the paperwork by the police car looked up at another who had been on the radio, something passing between them."Confirme

Avery's POVHe came across the grass without warning. His footsteps were unhurried but he was coming, and I watched him the whole way."Hey," he said, lowering himself down beside me without waiting to be asked."Hey."We stayed there without saying anything for a bit."We have not actually talked," he said. "Since everything. We have been at practice, next door to each other, in the same spaces, and neither of us has said a word.""No," I said. "We have not.""I want to. Tonight."I looked at him. He had the expression of someone who had thought this through before walking over, and that steadiness was enough."I was afraid the whole time we were apart," I said. "Not just of losing you. Of you deciding I was too much. Too tangled up in things you never signed up for when you first started noticing me as the girl next door. Dean. Scarlett. Your dad and Ashcombe on top of all of it. I kept thinking eventually the weight of it would just be too much to stand next to.""I understand why

Jade's POVI saw them from my bedroom window on Friday morning, standing close together on Avery's front step, his hand in her hair, her face tilted up toward his in a way that told me everything before either of them made a single move. My phone was in my hand and I looked at it, as if expecting to see some form of message or missed call I stood at that window watching a moment that clearly belonged only to the two of them, feeling like an intruder in my own house for witnessing it at all.I had not known they were back together.I stood there longer than I meant to, watching something that was not mine to watch, and then I turned away from the window and got dressed and walked next door before I let myself think too carefully about what I was about to say.Avery opened the door still smiling, the unguarded smile of someone who had not yet realised the morning had anything difficult waiting in it."Jade," she said. "Come in, I was just about to text you.""When did that happen?" I sa

Avery's POVLiam and I started doing things together again as boyfriend and girlfriend. At dinner on a certain night, he mentioned something random very casually.It was just the two of us and a takeaway we had not bothered to plate properly, the kind of evening that had become normal between us over the past few days. Carter, his dad, was out somewhere with Linda, Jade's mom, and my mom was out with a few friends. We were home alone."Zoey is transferring," he said, not looking up from his food, saying it the way you mentioned something that had stopped mattering to you."When did you hear that?" I asked."She told me herself, actually," he said. "I ran into her outside the library yesterday. She said it simply, no drama attached to it, like she was done being obsessed with trying to get me back. She is leaving at the end of the semester, and moving somewhere closer to her family. She said it had been on her mind for a while, even before any of this.""How did that feel," I asked. "k