Page 7 of Imperfection is Beauty

With my hair straightened, I sighed, realizing this was as good as it was going to get. At least the forecast I checked out last night let me know the humidity would be low today.

After I got dressed in leggings and a comfortable hoodie, I put my feet into my white high-tops, grabbed what I needed, and headed out of my dorm.

And when I saw my hair in a hallway mirror, I thought, just maybe, my hair would be nice, for once.

However, as I stepped out of the doors of my building, I sighed.

The weatherman got it wrong… just like he always did.

Why? Why me? Why did I think I could try to look cute on my first day?

I swear if you looked up the wordklutzin Webster’s dictionary, you would see me. My name, my picture, and a description of me.

Would you like to know how I managed to step on a small rock at a Putt-Putt place and end up breaking not one, not two, oh no, three bones in my foot?

Or how about the time I was walking out of the clubhouse, tripped over freaking air, and ended up busting my nose wide open?

Yeah, see, klutz, through and through.

As I walked to my first class of the day, I had no way of knowing that in a few short months, mypulsemoment would be happening.

Chapter 1

Marcus

What was the purpose of an alarm clock?

I didn’t know.

Not when I had been woken four hours ago to the sound of Daemon and his woman Aliyah getting hot and heavy in his room.

Ever since that scare with what had taken place, being the placental abruption, Aliyah and Crew had become permanent fixtures in the football house.

And now, since it was closing in on five twenty-nine in the morning, either I couldn’t fall back asleep because my mind was running rampant with everything on my plate, or it was the simple fact that I didn’t want to roll over and squish Crew.

Granted, Crew was under the covers in his Tonka truck pajamas, and I was atop the covers in nothing but sweatpants and wanted to chuck them off every five seconds because I ran hot.

Thankfully, my alarm went off, and I rolled over to silence it.

Once I was out of bed, ensuring Crew was still sleeping, I got dressed in a t-shirt and gym shorts, grabbed my stuff, and headed to the kitchen.

Finch was there getting things out for all of us.

Braydon and Culpepper met me down there, and Daemon soon followed.

After we drank our protein shakes, I loaded up in Daemon’s truck, and then we went to early morning practice.

Yeah, that always woke me up and got me started for the day.

Once I had my shower and got ready to head to class, I stepped out of my room and looked at Aliyah and Daemon.

Needing to tease them a bit, I said, “Before y’all wake me up with your escapades, go buy me some noise-canceling headphones.”

And with that, I smiled a rare smile and headed down the stairs.

All the while, Aliyah let out a startled gasp and called out, “That’s not gentlemanly of you.”

My first class of the day was over and when I grabbed my paper off her desk, I stared at the grade and let out a curse.

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