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Did your boyfriend tell you not to talk to me?
I’m tempted to start sending you snail mail…
Sincerely,
Your Fellow Gym-mate Who Hasn’t Seen You in Two Weeks
Grabbing my phone,I check the time and type in the address for The Underground.
Before I know it, I’m grabbing the car keys and sliding behind the wheel.
ACT FOUR & A HALF
BACK THEN
TRAVIS
A hundred miles away from Reno
I’m a fucking sap.
I wrap another layer of cheap tape around my fingers, wondering why the hell I used any money to send flowers to Tatiana when she’d spent the past two weeks acting like I didn’t exist.
“Travis?” Penelope’s voice comes through my phone’s speaker, pulling me out of my thoughts. “Travis, are you there?”
“I’m here, Crown.”
“I tried to pick up the UPS package you sent, but it was too heavy, so I have to go back tomorrow.”
“Why don’t you ask Hayden to help you?”
“He’s in zombie mode for a deadline with his app. Besides, my new boyfriend said he’ll help me get it, so—” She sucks in a breath. “I mean, yeah, I’ll ask Hayden for his help.”
“You’re not supposed to be datinganyone,” I say. “I told you to focus on skating.”
“What?” She laughs. “Who said anything about having a boyfriend? You must be hearing things.”
“Stop fucking with me, Crown.” I shake my head. “The only thing that you should be focused on is getting twenty-eight championships to surpass our mom’s record.”
“That’s going to take meyears,” she says.
“And?”
“And I need to make sure that I have a life off the ice.”
“No, you don’t.”
“If Tatiana Brave can have tons of boyfriends and still dominate without so much as a yawn or a misstep, trust me, I can do the same.”
I stop wrapping my hands. “Tatiana has ‘tons of boyfriends?’”
“I mean, I don’t know. I’m assuming from the way guys look at her and ask her out all the time.” She pauses. “I sent you a picture of her the other day and you never responded. She’s not all that, right?”
“Penelope, I honestly don’t want to discuss Tatiana with you ever again.”
“But—”
“Drop it.”
