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Ashton's POV"Oh, saw your brother with Harper at the restaurant place near the east gate by the way. It looked like a whole thing, flowers on the table and everything.”Bryce told me on a Friday morning like it was nothing.We were taping up before practice, the locker room loud with pre-session energy, we had played well all week and knew it.And Bryce was talking about something else entirely, a party, a girl, a story that I had been half following and then he mentioned Harper in the middle of everything else like it was just another detail in a list of things that had happened in his life.I finished the tape on my wrist. "When?" I said."Yesterday afternoon around three." Bryce kept talking, moving on to the next thing, completely unaware that he had dropped a bomb. “Anyway, back to what I was saying—"Practice was the best session I had put together all month.Coach pulled me aside after the first drill and said whatever I was doing I should keep doing it and I nodded and went

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HARPER'S POVAfter the date, I walked back to campus alone letting go of what was supposed to be.I met up with Ashton the next day. I hadn't told him about any of the meetups so far, I was thinking of different ways on how to start the conversation.“You seem a bit distant, is there anything I should know?”We were on the bench outside and he was right. I had been present enough to respond when required but the rest of me had been thinking about something else entirely.”"I had coffee with Ethan last week," I said.He looked at his cup. "Oh yeah, I kinda figured it out.""You knew? Why didn't you say anything?"He turned to look at me directly. "Someone told me, and because I didn't know what you'd say back."I stared at him. "What did you think I'd say?""That you still had feelings for him." He held my gaze. "And I wasn't ready to hear that.""And if I told you I didn't still have feelings for him."Ashton looked at me for a long second."I'd say it's about time."I let the words s

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Harper's POV"Which hospital?" Ashton said.He was already up, already finding my clothes, I was still sitting on the bed with the phone in my hand processing the words emergency contact and accident and stable condition."I need to call back, th..hey didn't say." I was tumbling over my words."Call in the car, we need to leave now,”We were out the door in under two minutes.I got the hospital name on the second call, a Collins RD hospital, and told Ashton and he redirected without a word and I sat with my hands in my lap and stared at the road and tried to locate the feeling in my chest accurately.I was scared, fear of losing someone I had spent two years caring about and couldn't switch that off regardless of everything that had changed between this morning and now."Hey, the caller said he is stable. You don't have to worry all the way there.”"I know.""You're still scared."He didn't say anything else, he just tried to drive faster.Madison was in the waiting room when we got t

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Harper's POV"He's asking for you again," the nurse said, stopping me in the corridor on my way back the next morning.I had come alone. Ashton had dropped me at the entrance and said he'd wait in the car, I understood him, and I had walked in.I pushed open Ethan's door. He was sitting up, wrist elevated, hospital breakfast untouched, and he looked better than last night, it was honestly more improvement than I had seen people look better after such an accident or shock."You came back," he said."I said I would, how's the wrist?” I sat in the chair beside the bed."Annoyingly painful, coach is going to be furious.""Coach can wait," I said. "How are you actually?""Strange, like something got shaken loose and I can't put it back where it was." He looked at the window. "I've been lying here since six am thinking about things I've been avoiding thinking about.""Like the fact that you were the first person they called,"The door opened, then I saw him. Mr. Reid was in the room and the

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