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Jacob took another swing, and I thought I saw blood splatter on the floor.

“Eli!” Sophie yelled and waved Eli over from across the room.

He walked over.

“Stop this madness, please.”

“Sure thing.” He walked over and pushed Leo out of the way of another swing. “Bro, stop beating up our kicker.” He shoved Jacob backwards.

And Jacob immediately shoved him.

Oh no.

A few people started chanting, “Fight, fight, fight!” And then it tumbled into everyone chanting.

RJ cracked his neck to the side. “It is so on.” He jumped onto Eli’s back.

“Stop it!” I yelled.

Eli spun around, knocking RJ into Jacob. Just as Leo slammed into Jacob’s back. Somehow all four of them ended up on the floor.

I looked around the room. “Someone make them stop!”

But everyone was just chanting, “Fight, fight, fight!”

Damn it!

“I thought you said you told him,” Sophie said. “I’m so so sorry.”

It didn’t matter how many times she said she was sorry. The four of them were going to kill each other.

Billy O’Reilly had pulled off his baseball cap and was collecting bets on who would win.

“Billy!” I yelled. “Stop them!”

“But there’s three to one odds...”

Gah! I grabbed someone’s cup of beer and threw the contents onto the pile of them.

Most of it somehow landed in Leo’s mouth. He spit it out as his fist collided with RJ’s face.

“I didn’t do what Sophie said!” I yelled. Well, not in the way Jacob had taken it, anyway. “Everyone stop it!”

No one listened to me. “Jacob! I didn’t do that! Stop!”

“I know who can help,” Sophie said. William was walking toward the kitchen. But Sophie grabbed his arm.

He was the biggest guy on the team. He was a great choice to help us.

“Get in there,” Sophie said. “Please.”

He smiled. “Okay.”

“William the Beefcake can handle this.”

Was that the name we’d decided on? Because I kind of thought it was something else...

William walked over and kind of crawled between everyone. He had the biggest smile on his face when someone’s hand touched his butt.