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I was not shielding. Audra attacking offense from behind would be a foul and a green card in a real game. She’s lucky my mom was too distracted by the camera to see what actually happened. Still, there’s no point in being pulled into the athletics office for a talk about leaving drama off the field. Nothing can make this practice go over; my time with Fury tonight is too important.
“It’s cool. I didn’t mean to shield; the cramp just froze me. So, you know. No harm,no foul.”
Audra rolls her eyes at me behind my mom’s back, and I give her nothing in return. She’s lucky she didn’t hurt my wrists and mess up my chance to play in the tournament this weekend. Whatever beef she has with me over Connor is completely one-sided, and I simply do not have the bandwidth to engage with her low-grade bitchery for the sake of a guy.
Guy! Who was that guy on the bleachers? Preeti helps me up, and the first thing I do is scan again to see if he’s still there. I hate the feeling when I can’t grab the information I want from my usually organized brain. I just need to get one more look at him, and I know I’ll be able to put the pieces together.
But he’s gone.
CHAPTER FOUR
Team Unity, Friday
[Team Unity has exited the map. Queue again?]
BobTheeQ: Nice job, team!
shineedancer: ahhhh we’re gonna kill it tomorrow!!!
ElementalP: you’re all welcome for the HEALS
JHoops: half of those were mine but go off I guess
BobTheeQ: Jake, P, you’re both pretty.
ElementalP: pretty good HEALERS
MUDD: i wish we were up against fury tomorrow we’d destroy them
BobTheeQ: I’m feeling good, glad everyone else is feeling good. P and shinee are you both set to carpool?
shineedancer: the jersey girls are ready 2 road trip. we got pocky.
MUDD: i’m riding with my friend who got tickets
JHoops: I . . . ?got the bus schedule
ElementalP: ruh roh
BobTheeQ: What happened to your dad driving you?
JHoops: arghhh
JHoops: we had a fight
JHoops: my Spanish teacher sent him an email about my test scores and he thinks GLO is making me dumber
BobTheeQ: I’m sure he doesn’t think that.
MUDD: you can’t get any dumber
ElementalP: MUDDY I SWEAR TO GOD
shineedancer: no bby jake are you ok
JHoops: i had a pretty good week so I can take it
BobTheeQ: Good week!
