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“Just a little while longer. It’ll all be worth it.”
“You plan on doing the Quad at tryouts?”
Rei takes a bite of a taco, humming happily. “No, I’m going all out, though. The Quad Axel is still too iffy, plus if I land it, I want it to be at the Games.”
“You will land it. I don’t doubt it for a second.”
Rei flashes me a smile. “Thanks.”
“It’s starting!” Yasmin yells, turning the volume up on the TV.
Grace looks at me as she takes her seat on my other side. “You’re not eating.”
I shake my head. “Not hungry.”
An understanding smile flashes on her face. “Need me to open a window?”
This isn’t the first time the idea of food caused me to turn nauseous, so they’ve all gotten used to my picky eating habits.
“Nah, I’m good for now. Thanks, though.”
I focus on the screen as the players line up on the fifty-yard line.
The game is a disaster from the very first second. It’s like the opposing team is reading our boys like a book. Every move they make, and every play they try, there’s someone there to stop it from happening. By halftime, the Ravens are, by some miracle, only down by one touchdown.
“It’ll get better,” Yasmin says decisively. “They’ll figure something out.”
But they don’t, and the second half is an even bigger disaster than the first. A few minutes before the clock runs out, it looks like the Ravens might get a hail Mary, but Prescott’s tackled to the ground, and their opponents win the ball, scoring instead.
And with that, the Ravens’ season is officially over.
CHAPTERTHIRTY-FOUR
PRESCOTT
“It was a tough game, dude. There was nothing that could have been done,” Spencer says.
There was so much that could have been done.
I slide my hand over the edge of my glass, staring at the amber liquid.
I could have run faster.
I could have taken a different route.
I could have seen that guy coming.
Nixon could have thrown the ball to somebody else.
Somebody better.
Somebody who could have brought our team a victory.
So many options.
So many different courses that could have given the Ravens a win.
But thanks to me, it was all done now.
