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“No fucking clue, man. You?”
“Baby has been up all week. I’m told it’s normal. They go through regression stages. No idea what that means other than I’m awake too much.”
“Makes you a miserable dick,” I said.
“Yeah it does.”
Atlas went to take a shower.
I sat alone, but didn’t get much time to think to myself.
Coach Denny blasted open the locker room door.
He flung his clipboard like a frisbee across the locker room.
It hit a wall and shattered into pieces.
“First fucking day,” he yelled at me. “First fucking practice.”
“We talked it out.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Coach Denny,” I said as I stood up.
“No. You listen to me. I’m not sure how to say this the right way. So forgive me if it comes across wrong. But you need to pack it up right now and go talk to your person. Call right now. Make an appointment. Whatever it is. Okay?”
Coach Denny didn’t give me a chance to respond.
He turned and stormed out of the locker room.
I caught myself grinning.
Coach Denny wants me to call Anna… and tell her I need to see her…?
I mean, what was I supposed to do?
I was supposed to listen to my coach, right?
Chapter Thirty
ANNA
I haveto go to Steven’s place.
It was interesting how fast my mind shifted into that gear.
Steven’s place.
As though I didn’t decorate the place. As though I didn’t have a hand in everything in that place. As though I didn’t balance on my tiptoes on a stepladder to hang up Christmas lights to give the place a warm, comfortable, Christmastime feel.
I cooked. I cleaned.
I took care of Steven when he got sick.
The man-flu and all that.
Even one time when he had a kidney stone issue.
