Chapter 74 The Truth, Not the Version
Alex
The lie sat differently than the omission had. It had a weight the silence never carried, sharp-edged in a way that followed me through practice the next day.
I’d spent months not telling her, which had its own weight, its own specific guilt that I’d learned to carry without it showing on my ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Off Limits
2. Chapter 2 The Girl Nobody Could Touch
3. Chapter 3 The Problem With Boys Who Don’t Quit
4. Chapter 4 What Do You Want, Alex
5. Chapter 5 Not A Marriage Proposal
6. Chapter 6 Strategy Session
7. Chapter 7 He Didn’t Even Look At Her
8. Chapter 8 Think You’re Special
9. Chapter 9 Phone Face
10. Chapter 10 Breakfast Isn’t a Date
11. Chapter 11 The Girl in the Courtyard
12. Chapter 12 Half a Warning
13. Chapter 13 Since Paige
14. Chapter 14 Resisting the Urge
15. Chapter 15 Two Months Down
16. Chapter 16 No More Pretending
17. Chapter 17 A Year and a Half
18. Chapter 18 Different Eyes
19. Chapter 19 Hypothetically Speaking
20. Chapter 20 What I Wasn’t Looking For
21. Chapter 21 Something Closing
22. Chapter 22 I Said Don’t
23. Chapter 23 The Question
24. Chapter 24 What I Actually Asked
25. Chapter 25 The Version Everyone Else Sees
26. Chapter 26 What I Wasn’t Supposed to Hear
27. Chapter 27 No Performance In It
28. Chapter 28 Not What I Expected
29. Chapter 29 A Small, Petty Thing
30. Chapter 30 Everything At Once
31. Chapter 31 Something Real
32. Chapter 32 The Notebook
33. Chapter 33 What Mia Knows
34. Chapter 34 Four Hours
35. Chapter 35 River
36. Chapter 36 What Marcus Said
37. Chapter 37 Too Close
38. Chapter 38 I Think He’s Trying
39. Chapter 39 Three Days
40. Chapter 40 What I Didn’t Plan
41. Chapter 41 First Again
42. Chapter 42 Terrible at Football
43. Chapter 43 Past Midnight
44. Chapter 44 December
45. Chapter 45 December Fifteenth
46. Chapter 46 The Hum
47. Chapter 47 Running Out of After
48. Chapter 48 Exhale
49. Chapter 49 Twenty Minutes
50. Chapter 50 Accountable
51. Chapter 51 Containment
52. Chapter 52 Carter’s Whole Thing
53. Chapter 53 I Didn't Tell Her
54. Chapter 54 Something Vague
55. Chapter 55 No Winner
56. Chapter 56 The Other Shoe
57. Chapter 57 All of It
58. Chapter 58 Evidence
59. Chapter 59 Four Days
60. Chapter 60 The Last Session
61. Chapter 61 Face to Face
62. Chapter 62 Since He Met Someone
63. Chapter 63 The Kitchen Table
64. Chapter 64 The Vow
65. Chapter 65 Rehearsal
66. Chapter 66 The Reunion
67. Chapter 67 The Best Afternoon
68. Chapter 68 Since October
69. Chapter 69 Quiet for Now
70. Chapter 70 The Hoodie
71. Chapter 71 Wearing the Hoodie
72. Chapter 72 The Fifth Line
73. Chapter 73 Thirty Seconds
74. Chapter 74 The Truth, Not the Version
75. Chapter 75 What I Chose
76. Chapter 76 Two Weeks
77. Chapter 77 Said Out Loud
78. Chapter 78 Nothing Happened
79. Chapter 79 Not the One
80. Chapter 80 Nowhere
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