False Start

I again managed to make it out of practice without any more confrontations, although I was getting a little annoyed to do so basically required me to skip going into the locker room after practice. Since I sometimes stayed with Miguel and Tyrell, and now I was staying after with Wayne and Bennet, it was […]

I managed to avoid Elijah all day on Tuesday. Monday after practice, I made sure to walk in when Coach did, grabbed my stuff, and got the hell out of there. It wasn’t that I was afraid of Elijah and his bunch, but I didn’t want to deal with his bullshit, which was going to […]

Monday, things were peaceful for most of the day. Sure, there were the dirty looks from Elijah, but that had become almost standard by now. The only thing missing was Jamal. He’d been in a splint on Friday after that bad hit he took at the game, but he’d said his parents were taking him […]

Coach ran us ragged on Friday again, I guess thinking if he put us through enough pain, everyone would get on the same game plan. The only thing that gave me any hope that things would change was he paid specific attention to Elijah and his crew. The optimistic part of me thought that might […]

Tomorrow is game day, and Coach had okayed us to use a few audibles in the game. I hoped it wasn’t needed, and Elijah wouldn’t be an idiot and try to sabotage the team again, but I knew that was wishful thinking. I knew Elijah from our past and from our future in the dream, […]

While the game and conversation the night before were occupying a lot of my thoughts, it wasn’t the only thing I had to focus on. Football was a priority, but so was school now, and I’d been busting my ass to get the year started off on the right foot. So Friday morning, I was […]