Chapter 35 That's Not What "Back" Means
Cole's POV
The school activities account posted the Homecoming pictures during first period.
I knew because Grant turned around in his seat, held his phone above our teacher's line of sight, and silently pointed at my face on the screen.
The photo was the first one Priya had taken on the gym st...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Whole School Has Seen Me Fall
2. Chapter 2 Absolutely Random Partners
3. Chapter 3 Not According to Plan
4. Chapter 4 Not Your Backup
5. Chapter 5 Room to Run
6. Chapter 6 Just This One
7. Chapter 7 Not a Progress Report
8. Chapter 8 So It Was Your Idea
9. Chapter 9 Keeping Busy
10. Chapter 10 Don't Celebrate Yet
11. Chapter 11 Somewhere Else to Be
12. Chapter 12 This Time, I'm Asking
13. Chapter 13 You Showed Up
14. Chapter 14 This One Was on Me
15. Chapter 15 Home a Little Later
16. Chapter 16 This Time, I Went Over
17. Chapter 17 Your Turn to Talk
18. Chapter 18 Not Just Here for the Noise
19. Chapter 19 Don't Look Over Yet
20. Chapter 20 Don't Get Too Pleased, Mercer
21. Chapter 21 Not About Practice
22. Chapter 22 I Actually Wanted to Come
23. Chapter 23 Then Ask Her
24. Chapter 24 This Is Mine to Say
25. Chapter 25 Not Just Convenient
26. Chapter 26 You Actually Watched It
27. Chapter 27 Already Decided for You
28. Chapter 28 I'll Give You a Real Answer
29. Chapter 29 I'm Asking You Too
30. Chapter 30 Not All of It
31. Chapter 31 Not a Girlfriend or a Secret
32. Chapter 32 Aren't You Back?
33. Chapter 33 Going Together Doesn't Define Everything
34. Chapter 34 The Second Dance Counts Too
35. Chapter 35 That's Not What "Back" Means
36. Chapter 36 I Said I Could Do It
37. Chapter 37 Put My Name Down
38. Chapter 38 You Don't Need to Be There
39. Chapter 39 This Isn't My Rotation
40. Chapter 40 Take the Bad Play
41. Chapter 41 The Time I Stopped
42. Chapter 42 I Only Have Twenty Minutes
43. Chapter 43 They're Waiting for Me
44. Chapter 44 No Switching Teams
45. Chapter 45 I Haven't Lost Yet
46. Chapter 46 Why Did You Pick Me Then
47. Chapter 47 There's Room Here
48. Chapter 48 You'll Wait for Me
49. Chapter 49 I Do Want to Kiss You
50. Chapter 50 The Name on the List
51. Chapter 51 She Isn't Here to See You
52. Chapter 52 First, Finish Today
53. Chapter 53 This Photo Isn't Mine
54. Chapter 54 Don't Fix It for Her
55. Chapter 55 Rhodes Knew
56. Chapter 56 No Questions Yet
57. Chapter 57 Forward This, Please
58. Chapter 58 The Part You Didn't Know
59. Chapter 59 I'm Not Confused About This
60. Chapter 60 Seating Arrangements
61. Chapter 61 Not My Route
62. Chapter 62 The Person in the Photograph
63. Chapter 63 Wyatt's Choice
64. Chapter 64 The Missing Starter
65. Chapter 65 Not an Upgrade
66. Chapter 66 The Version He Remembers
67. Chapter 67 A General Concern
68. Chapter 68 You Knew Me Then
69. Chapter 69 You Kept Watching
70. Chapter 70 What You Wanted Me to Feel
71. Chapter 71 We Weren't Together
72. Chapter 72 I'm Still Going
73. Chapter 73 Smaller Than I Remembered
74. Chapter 74 You Wrote It on the Card
75. Chapter 75 No One Gets to Finish It for You
76. Chapter 76 Before the Lights Go Out
77. Chapter 77 She Made Them Put Me In
78. Chapter 78 After We Came Back
79. Chapter 79 I Don't Have to Decide Yet
80. Chapter 80 You Didn't Ask
81. Chapter 81 Technically, It Isn't Broken
82. Chapter 82 Not My Position
83. Chapter 83 Someone Else Catches It
84. Chapter 84 He Left First
85. Chapter 85 Are You Coming Too
86. Chapter 86 I Was Doing Fine
87. Chapter 87 Walk Me to the Corner
88. Chapter 88 The Same Offense
89. Chapter 89 I Want You There
90. Chapter 90 The Banner Is Not a Metaphor
91. Chapter 91 Under the Banner
92. Chapter 92 Everyone Knows Before We Do
93. Chapter 93 Don't Ask Me as a Joke
94. Chapter 94 The Navy Training Shirt
95. Chapter 95 We Still Won
96. Chapter 96 The Shirt Didn't Come With a Lane
97. Chapter 97 The Right Read Can Still Lose
98. Chapter 98 The Unofficial Funeral
99. Chapter 99 She Remembers Me Too
100. Chapter 100 Forty-Seven Minutes
101. Chapter 101 That Chair Has a Political Position
102. Chapter 102 Good Quarterbacks Still Wait in Line
103. Chapter 103 Her Name Got There First
104. Chapter 104 The Deposit Is Not a Love Language
105. Chapter 105 This Is Not an Accident Hearing
106. Chapter 106 I Didn't Put You Second
107. Chapter 107 He Isn't My Postgame Report
108. Chapter 108 She Isn't Your Witness
109. Chapter 109 No Running Today
110. Chapter 110 Who Pays for the Answer
111. Chapter 111 She Crossed First
112. Chapter 112 Ten Minutes Is Not Enough
113. Chapter 113 Another Kind of Correct Read
114. Chapter 114 Someone Has to Move
115. Chapter 115 Definitely Not a Date
116. Chapter 116 She Saw It First
117. Chapter 117 The Photo Got There First
118. Chapter 118 You Thought It Was Just Film
119. Chapter 119 Not a Free Opportunity
120. Chapter 120 The Second Label
121. Chapter 121 After the Bag Opened
122. Chapter 122 I Left First
123. Chapter 123 Keep the Part Where I Said It
124. Chapter 124 We All Measured It
125. Chapter 125 She Didn't Need to Hear It Again
126. Chapter 126 He Wanted the Whole Clip
127. Chapter 127 The Adult in the Room
128. Chapter 128 Don't Turn Me into Evidence
129. Chapter 129 She Already Signed
130. Chapter 130 My Name Does Not Mean Finished
131. Chapter 131 This Picture Isn't Happening
132. Chapter 132 Two Extra Lanes
133. Chapter 133 They Look Right Together
134. Chapter 134 Get the Lane First
135. Chapter 135 Completely Unrelated
136. Chapter 136 I Saved You a Seat Too
137. Chapter 137 How Many People Did You Send It To?
138. Chapter 138 Don't Use Me as the Replacement Shot
139. Chapter 139 The Only Person Who Could Afford to Lose
140. Chapter 140 He Only Said the Result
141. Chapter 141 This Time I Came to Find You
142. Chapter 142 A Normal Dinner Fails Incompletely
143. Chapter 143 She Knows I Have a Girlfriend
144. Chapter 144 The Two Lanes Were Never Mine to Give
145. Chapter 145 The Same Call
146. Chapter 146 The Part That Could Fail
147. Chapter 147 We Both Missed It
148. Chapter 148 Okay
149. Chapter 149 No New Route on Monday
150. Chapter 150 Two Good Things
151. Chapter 151 Do Not Make a Breakup Logistics Sheet
152. Chapter 152 Dad Printed Two Copies
153. Chapter 153 Under Normal Conditions
154. Chapter 154 The Same Sign
155. Chapter 155 Making Up Time
156. Chapter 156 Both Sides Waved
157. Chapter 157 Can I Come?
158. Chapter 158 Don't Make Me Your Evidence
159. Chapter 159 I Wanted to Hear You
160. Chapter 160 Still Standing Too Far Away
161. Chapter 161 The Baton Did Not Care We Were Back Together
162. Chapter 162 She Did Not Come Back to Thank Me
163. Chapter 163 Ask the Receiver First
164. Chapter 164 We Can't Go to the Same Place
165. Chapter 165 Seven Hundredths Is Not an Ending
166. Chapter 166 The Last Leg
167. Chapter 167 Where Can You Actually Get?
168. Chapter 168 Two Invitations
169. Chapter 169 Put the Hurdles Away First
170. Chapter 170 Outrun the Quarterback
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