Chapter 9 Public, Always
Elias POV
I never dressed for attention.
That was the lie people told themselves to make me easier to swallow.
The truth was simpler, heavier: I dressed because I refused to disappear.
By Tuesday morning, the campus had settled back into its routine. Classes resumed. Practices ran on schedu...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Boy in the Red Skirt
2. Chapter 2 The Captain Watches
3. Chapter 3 What Everyone Knows
4. Chapter 4 Lines Between Control
5. Chapter 5 The party
6. Chapter 6 The Mistake
7. Chapter 7 Morning After 
8. Chapter 8 Don't Talk About It
9. Chapter 9 Public, Always
10. Chapter 10 Girlfriend
11. Chapter 11 Text at Night
12. Chapter 12 Crossed Lines
13. Chapter 13 The Captain's Fear
14. Chapter 14 I was Never Hiding
15. Chapter 15 Almost leaving
16. Chapter 16 The Girlfriend Finds Something
17. Chapter 17 Public vs. Private
18. Chapter 18 Elias Breaks
19. Chapter 19 Another Night
20. Chapter 20 What are we?
21. Chapter 21 The Team Notices
22. Chapter 22 Ultimatum
23. Chapter 23 Breaking up
24. Chapter 24 The Captain Runs
25. Chapter 25 Elias Stands Alone
26. Chapter 26 Injury
27. Chapter 27 Confession Without Labels
28. Chapter 28 Don't Look Back
29. Chapter 29 Choosing
30. Chapter 30 Being seen
31. Chapter 31 Morning After Being Seen
32. Chapter 32 The Locker Room Silence
33. Chapter 33 The Coach’s Office
34. Chapter 34 Still Here
35. Chapter 35 Eyes Forward
36. Chapter 36 The Field
37. Chapter 37 What He Sees
38. Chapter 38 Coffee and Cameras
39. Chapter 39 The Captain's Hearing
40. Chapter 40 Secondhand
41. Chapter 41 Late
42. Chapter 42 What Do You Want
43. Chapter 43 His Name in Her Mouth
44. Chapter 44 Step Down
45. Chapter 45 Loud
46. Chapter 46 Three Days
47. Chapter 47 The Journal
48. Chapter 48 Not Pining
49. Chapter 49 The Article
50. Chapter 50 One Line
51. Chapter 51 He Shared It
52. Chapter 52 Waiting
53. Chapter 53 New Terms
54. Chapter 54 The Coach Again
55. Chapter 55 Red in the Stands
56. Chapter 56 Adopted
57. Chapter 57 Just Quiet
58. Chapter 58 Both Sides
59. Chapter 59 Ordinary
60. Chapter 60 Road Game
61. Chapter 61 Away
62. Chapter 62 What He Didn't Say
63. Chapter 63 Ivy's Thing
64. Chapter 64 Family
65. Chapter 65 Sunday Dinner
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