All the Noise at Once: Chapters 1–5

by DeAndra Davis
Aiden finally makes the football team like his beloved older brother Brandon, but when Brandon is unjustly arrested, Aiden is desperate to clear his brother's name.

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  1. imperceptible
    impossible or difficult to sense
    I rush forward, realizing his intentions easily. That twitch in his left calf, the subtle twist to the right, the imperceptible glance around.
  2. tousle
    disarrange or rumple; dishevel
    Brandon gives me a crooked smile and tousles my locs.
  3. apprehension
    fearful expectation or anticipation
    I feel the apprehension radiating from everyone around me.
  4. mottled
    having spots or patches of color
    Instead, I embrace my muffled existence until we are through a pair of double doors, across mottled concrete, then onto grass.
  5. insinuate
    suggest in an indirect or covert way; give to understand
    I can feel what Brandon is insinuating, but I do not want to make assumptions.
  6. decode
    convert something hidden or secretive into ordinary language
    To understand people is to decode people. Most people need decoding.
  7. stark
    complete or extreme
    Tension ripples from Brandon like waves of heat, in stark contrast to his seemingly easy demeanor from before.
  8. demeanor
    the way a person behaves toward other people
    Tension ripples from Brandon like waves of heat, in stark contrast to his seemingly easy demeanor from before.
  9. discrimination
    unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice
    They were not happy after the last rejection. Or maybe they were unhappy with my unhappiness. The way Mom raged for two days, threatening to sue the school for disability discrimination.
  10. ironclad
    inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable
    Her arguments are ironclad, her tone as stony as her demeanor.
  11. endeavor
    a purposeful or industrious undertaking
    “I have homework. Please feel free not to discuss me and my lack of social endeavors in my absence,” I say now.
  12. garner
    acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
    By the time I’m ten steps into the school, I’ve garnered enough collective luck from my classmates to rival a four-leaf clover.
  13. enthralled
    filled with wonder and delight
    “I’ll be forever enthralled if you do.”
  14. reverie
    absentminded dreaming while awake
    “That her?” Brandon asks, breaking my reverie.
  15. trajectory
    the path followed by an object moving through space
    Carter slows up to match the new trajectory of the ball.
Created on Mon Feb 02 09:24:51 EST 2026 (updated Fri Feb 20 19:13:11 EST 2026)

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