Invisible To Her Bully (Jessa and Noah) novel Chapter 269

My football gear bag sat in the corner.

It felt weird seeing it there now.

Season over.

Just like that.

For years my life had been built around Friday nights, practice schedules, game film, workouts.

Now it was… waiting.

Waiting for college.

Waiting for the next chapter.

State University.

I leaned back against the wall behind my bed.

Jackson and I going there together still felt a little unreal.

Same team.

Division One football.

Full ride.

If someone had told me that a couple years ago I probably would’ve laughed.

But Coach had made it clear.

Recruiters liked us.

And getting that scholarship…

Yeah.

That changed a lot.

College had suddenly gone from “maybe” to real.

I ran a hand through my hair.

And then the thought crept in again.

Jess.

Because for all the excitement everyone had today…

She’d been quiet.

Not unhappy.

Just… somewhere else in her head.

And then there was the question she asked me.

What if I went somewhere far away?

I exhaled slowly.

At the time I’d tried to keep it casual.

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Told her she should go wherever made her happy.

And I meant that.

I did.

But sitting here now in the quiet of my room, it hit a little different.

Because I’d been so focused on my future with football…

I hadn’t really stopped to think about what that meant for everything else.

For us.

Jess and me had only been together about five months.

Which somehow felt like both a long time and no time at all.

Long enough that things between us felt real.

Not some high school fling.

Not something temporary.

But short enough that the future still felt like this big question mark sitting between us.

I grabbed my phone again.

Opened my messages.

Jess’s name was right at the top of the list.

The last text from her was simple.

Thanks again for the ice cream.

I smiled a little.

Then I leaned my head back against the wall again.

“Yeah,” I said quietly to the empty room. “You almost told me something today.”

And that meant one of two things.

Either it was something small she just wasn’t ready to say yet…

Or it was something big.

Something that scared her.

I thought about the way she’d asked about going far away.

The way she’d watched my reaction like it actually mattered.

Which meant…

She might really be thinking about it.

Going somewhere else.

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