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They were supposed to slowly, imperceptibly drift apart.
They weren’t supposed to meet in the quarter finals of the World Cup with the entire world obsessed over the history of their friendship. And Jude certainly wasn’t supposed to let all that get to him, let all the noise disturb the perfectly assembled facade he’d had in place for years now.
He was so fucking stupid.
And now he’s sitting here drowning in every bad decision he’s made, and the worst part, the worst part, is the one person he knows could haul him back to dry land is the one who had unmoored him to begin with.
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An encounter in the locker room after the quarter finals leads to Jude running away, Erling chasing after him, and the soft beginnings of something new.