All Chapters of Falling for My Best Friend's Brother: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

404 Chapters

061: I love you

Liam's POVI thought about Scarlett's question.Scarlett was asking whether I liked Avery. It was a straightforward enough question, but I wanted to answer it honestly rather than just say whatever came out first. Because the honest answer required me to be clear in my own head about what I actually meant, and I was aware that it could mean several different things depending on the situation.I thought about the drinks, the bar and the dance floor last night. I also thought about the almost-kiss and the way Avery had told me to take her away from Jade after her latest outburst. I thought about the funny argument we had at dinner and her beautiful laugh she had tried to hide and mask as nothing serious. I thought about her hand in mine on several occasions.I thought about the project sessions. The arguments we had and the way she always had a position and opinion on this and was never backing down on it unless convinced beyond doubt. The way she was direct when she disagreed and quick

062: I can't do this

Avery's POVHe said those words while looking at me straight in the eyes. Not the way he looked at me in a lecture hall or across a project table. He looked at me the way a person looked when they had just said something they had been carrying for a long time and they needed to know what happened next. It was the most unguarded I had ever seen him. I was still sitting across from him in that private room with the low music coming through the walls and the dim light. He had spent the better part of an hour describing me to my own face without knowing it, and then told me I was the person he loved, and now he was looking at me and waiting to see what I did with that revelation.I knew what was coming. I could see it in how still he was, in the way his eyes dropped briefly to my mouth and came back up. I had enough time to lean back, to put distance between us, to find something to say that would redirect the whole situation somewhere else. I had done that kind of redirection a hundred

063: Just your name

Avery's POVHe leaned back on the cushion, but he was not done talking."But I am not asking for everything right now," he said. "I am just asking for this. What is already here between us. The thing that is happening in this room right now.""What is already happening between us is going to make you want more," I said. "That is what I am telling you. I am not saying you are greedy or unreasonable. I am saying that is how it works when two people are actually having something with each other the way we have been. It grows. And when it grows you are going to want the things I cannot give you and we will be in a worse version of exactly this conversation.""You keep deciding things for me.""I am not deciding anything for you," I said. "I am telling you what I cannot offer. Those are different things and you know they are."He said something under his breath that was not quite agreement to me and not quite an argument either. Then he stood up and moved to the other side of the room the

064: Her reply

Liam's POVShe looked at me like the question was either a foolish one or that I was foolish to ask it."Of course I like you," she said. "That is not the issue."I was glad to hear that she at least liked me, but I was still frustrated by the situation. "Then what is the issue? Because from where I am sitting it looks very much like the issue."She stood up and moved to the other side of the small room, not far, just enough to put some space between us. She stood there with her arms crossed but not in the defensive way, more like she was trying to hold herself together. The room actually felt smaller than it usually did right now."Liking you is exactly the problem," she said. "If I did not like you, this would be easy. I would tell you no and it would be done and I sure as hell wouldn't lose sleep over it." She stopped to look at my face."I'm sorry but it's the truth." She continued. "The fact that I do like you is what makes everything about this so much harder than it should be."

065: Not have you

Liam's POVI looked at her and I tried to find a way in my mind to erase my frustration about the situation.That was what I did with everything. There was always a way through in every situation if you were thorough and serious enough to find one. Just like I found a way to deal with Colton and his childish antics.I went through everything she had said. The mask and the life she had outside the room and the consequences of revealing herself. I turned it over and over in my mind, but it brought me back to the same point every single time. I could not build something with a person I was not allowed to know. Not in a week, not in a year, not in whatever patient timeline I had been imagining when I told my best friend Jace it was worth trying. That was just the truth of it. Staying in this room for another minute or even another few hours was not going to change the reality of it. I had sat with harder things than this and found a way through, but those things had always had a door some

066: He left

Avery's POVHe stood there for a moment after I said it.He was looking at me and I could see him deciding what to do with what I just said to him. It sounded ridiculous even to me, but it was the truth. I couldn't tell him the truth as Avery and I didn't want to lose him as Scarlett.Then he spoke. "That is the most frustrating thing anyone has ever said to me."He was not angry when he said it. At least he didn't look like he was. But he was not warm either. He just looked, like he said, frustrated."I am sorry," I said. The words came out smaller than I wanted them to."Sorry doesn't really fix it.""I know.""Then why say it at all? What is even the point of any of this?"I had no good answer for that. I had asked myself the same question more than once tonight and I had not come up with an answer.And then he opened the door and walked out.I sat back down in the room for a minute after he left. I did not move. I just sat there with my hands in my lap, looking at the door he had

067: Going home

Avery's POVI drove home just after 2am.The roads were quiet and I kept both hands on the wheel and the radio off. The drive was about twenty minutes and I used all of it trying not to replay the conversation in loops, which worked for about the first five minutes and then stopped working entirely. I kept coming back to one of the last statements he made. When he said my words were the most frustrating thing anyone has ever said to him. I thought about the fact that he was not even wrong. It was frustrating. I knew exactly why it was frustrating and I was the one making it that way. I did not have a better option and it felt kind of awful.By the time I pulled onto my street I thought to myself that I was really just going to sleep it off and I'll be better by morning.If only I knew how wrong I was.The front door was unlocked, which was strange by two in the morning. I let myself in and looked around so I could see if something was wrong.Dean was in the living room. The television

068: Sitting in the car

Liam's POVI sat in the car for a long time without starting the engine. I reclined my chair a little and just sat there there thinking.The club entrance was visible in the wing mirror, a couple of people going in and the door closing behind them. I watched it for a moment and then looked at the steering wheel. The conversation was still running in my head in full, every piece of it, and I had learned the hard way over the years that driving while my brain was doing that particular thing was not a good idea. So I sat."Get it together," I said quietly to myself in the empty car. The words did not do much, but saying them out loud made me feel slightly less stupid than just sitting there staring at nothing.She said she liked me more than she should. Those were her exact words. And that was exactly why she could not give me what I was asking for.I had turned it over about a dozen times since I walked out of that room and it still sounded wrong. Not because I did not believe her. I di

069: Better company

Liam's POV'Long', she wrote. 'Ran into someone when I got home who I really did not want to deal with.'I did not ask who. She would tell me if she wanted to.'Sorry,' I typed. 'That sounds like a rough end to a rough night.''It is what it is,' she replied. 'Tell me about yours.'I looked at the windscreen and typed. 'I keep going over what she said. I cannot get it to stop playing in my head.''What did she say?''That she liked me too much to give me what I wanted.'The three dots appeared and disappeared twice before her reply came through.'That is a terrible thing to hear', she wrote. 'I am genuinely sorry.''The worst part is I believe her completely,' I typed.'Yes', she wrote. 'That would make it worse.''How do you deal with something like that,' I wrote. 'Honestly.''You do not really,' she wrote back. 'You sit with it until it becomes bearable and then you keep going. That is all I have got, sorry.''That is actually more useful than you think.'I looked at the screen for

070: Sitting with him

Avery's POVI read his message twice and put my phone face down on the duvet.Give me five minutes. I had typed it before I had really thought it through, and now I had about four minutes and forty seconds to get downstairs and get into the kind of head where I could sit next to him and listen to him talk about what my alternate persona did to him without my face giving me away.I got up. I pulled the hoodie off the back of my chair and slipped it on over my t-shirt. I tied my hair up, splashed cold water on my face in the bathroom and pressed the towel against my eyes for a second. I looked at the woman in the mirror and decided she would do.Then I went downstairs.The living room television was off now. Dean had finally gone to bed. The hallway was dark and the house was mostly quiet. I unlocked the front door, slipped out, and pulled it gently closed behind me.The night air bit at my face and I pulled the hoodie tighter and went to sit on the top step.I sat with my elbows on my

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