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ELLIS:The texts weren’t from Lori.

LANDON:Fuck! Kyle,right?

ELLIS:Yep. Look. I can only see the last one. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t read her messages and I don’t know her passcode.

LANDON:Ready or not? What the fuck does that mean?

ELLIS:Here I come, obviously.

LANDON: Come where?Here?When?

ELLIS:You know as much as I do, dude.

LANDON:No I don’t. I don’t know shit about this Kyle fucker except that he sends her way too many text messages. What do you know?

ELLLIS:That’sit.Basicallythat.

LANDON:Bullshit. You know a lot more. Do you thinkhe’s here in Idaho?

ELLIS:I don’t know. Kat says there’s no way he’d come here, but…

LANDON:But what?

Bzzzz.Bzzzz.

ELLIS:I can’t really talk about this. Kat would kill me.

Bzzzz.

LANDON:Start talking. Right fucking now.

Bzzzz. Bleep.

ELLIS:He’s dangerous, oh geez, she’s going to kill me, but some stuff happened and I know what Kat says, that he’s all talk, that he would never come all the way up here, but she’s crazy.He’s crazy.I just want to shake her when she says that. He’s not all talk. Not at all.

LANDON:What? I’m supposed to be on the field, so you better start making some fucking sense.

ELLIS:He hurt her. He’s not all talk. Before she came here, he hurt her. Oh god, he more than hurt her, he…damaged her. She’s crazy tothinkhewouldn’tcomeherebecauseIthinkthat’sexactlythetype of thing he’d do.

Bzzzz. Bzzzz.

LANDON:Go check on her.

ELLIS:I can’t, I’m already covering for her here. Stella the bitch is probably going ape shit on Craig over in the VIP box right now. Oh my god, I’m scared, I’m scared, I'm scared. What do we do? What do we do? It’s probably nothing right?But what if it’s something. What if he’s here?

Bleep.Bleep.Bzzzz.Bzzzz.Bzzzz.Bzzzz.Bzzzz.Bzzz-

LANDON:Fuck! The plate meeting’s starting; I have to get out there. I’m calling a buddy of mine from the police force. Walk with me.

COACH ROWE:Ryan! What in the flying fuck? The game’s about to start!

ELLIS:Oh,he’sonthephone,sir.

COACH ROWE:Whatthefuckisgoingon?

ELLIS:It’s a family emergency, sir. He asked me to run interference while he makes just this one phone call.

COACH ROWE:Ryan!RYAN!FIELD NOW!

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