False Start

The next morning I was actually up early for school. I wasn’t training with Coach Greer, since I was going to be doing track, which meant I didn’t have to be at school till like eight-fifteen… [See More on Patreon]

I finished my last set of shoulder pulls, barely keeping the weights from slamming back into place before collapsing back onto the bench. The weight room was packed, which I hadn’t expected, since no sports were going right now except for basketball, but those guys didn’t tend to come in for afternoon sessions and seemed […]

“And then it just fell straight down on his head,” Eduardo said. “He got up, with it just dripping down his face, and tried to act like nothing happened.” Li and I were both cracking up.  I’d really missed my friends. It was so strange that the three of us didn’t know each other a […]

The next week flew by and before I knew it, it was Christmas morning and I was waking up to the sound of muffled voices downstairs. I loved Christmas and was excited, although a lot of that was tempered by how things had been around the house since … [See More on Patreon]

The last week of school before break flew by. I had a bunch of tests to get ready for, and not just the regular end of semester tests everyone had to take. I guess Vice Principal Ford had been paying more attention to my extra work than I’d thought she had, because she’d arranged for […]