Here's Nicole Dykes's "False Start." It's the third book in her Big Bend Bears series, which is a spin-off of her Kensley Panthers series.
["Vaughn Montgomery
High school is almost over, and I’m more than ready.
Not because I don’t love Big Bend and everything here. Actually, I’m going to miss it quite a bit, but I’ll have my best friend by my side.
With Austin, I’ll always be okay.
Austin Pierce
I’m keeping some pretty big secrets from my best friend.
Secrets I’m not sure how much longer I can hold onto. Secrets that’ll likely destroy our friendship.
Because he thinks we’re going to college together—but I just can’t do it. I can’t spend any more time with this lie.
Big Bend may have been my beginning, but it never felt quite right. Something was always off—truly, I think it was my false start.
Now it’s time to live my life with nothing but the truth."]
HOW does Nicole manage to make a book sooo fucking sweet and yet make me cry multiple times? Because she does it to me in every. single. one. of her books. All of them are fluffy as hell but make me tear up (or full-on sob) more than once.
And these two? I don't care how many times she (or anyone else) writes a best-friends-to-lovers story, because they're each so different and unique and beautiful. AND I love how 90% of the time (especially in this universe) the 'not-so-straight' bestie is a golden retriever jock (sometimes a bit of a himbo) who didn't realize how utterly in love he was with his best friend (who had been in love with him first for forever) until the secret gets screamed in his face. Then he's all in.
Back to these two: I looove Vaughn and Austin. We've been waiting for them to fall in love (or at least Vaughn to realize it) for sooo long. Having it, even if I cried, was amazing. I loved watching their story play out, even if it wasn't fast (or necessarily easy).
And once again, I'm obsessed with all of the cross-overs and cameos from other books in the Big Bend/Kensley/Oakley's Crew universe (the short story I just read also had not-so-subtle hints to this gay-Kansas universe). Obsessed.
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