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She was slanced up, all pale-green eyes looking azes for a few seconds before I remembered her words fro h the roupies until I burst outta the back doors into the huht air
"Austin!" I heard my named called from beside me Reece sat at the fire pit with the other freshman players I flickedsecond-string QB--all blond hair and laidback attitude--dropping my now-empty Corona into the trashcan
As soon as I stood before him, Reece handed me a new bottle and the rookie linesman beside hiood,wide The kid was okay really I just couldn’t speak to him like I could Rome and JD Took someone real special forood Reece turned to talk with Caleb Baker, a young wide receiver, about Tanya, the vice-captain cheerleader strutting across the lawn I left them to it--I didn’t wanna talk about some fake blonde whose only troubles hat color lipstick she would choose to wear to class on Monday
Leaning back against the bench, I looked up at a sky full of stars, and I inhaled Why is it that when you’re faced with the billion tiny lights of the galaxy, you feel a co? That there’s more to life, to the world, than what you think, like hun God set out for us to play out But as soon as you look away from that blanket of diamonds, all your probleh crushes you All issues you have stab you in your chest, and everything’s illu?" I heard Reece say as I stared down at the floating li up, I saw Reece pointing to Ro across the street in the direction of a sorority house Reece was still looking atacross the patio, I saw Ally, Cass, and JD hanging out by the grill But that cheerleader was nowhere in sight
When the conversation around me shifted to this year’s holiday plans, I kneas time tothe roses, while the guys discussed their white picket-fenced houses and cookie-cutter faifts and Christmas fkin’ cheer
"I’h the arden into the frat summerhouse Only Rome and me had a key to this place Pretty fked up of us, I know, but as the most senior members of both the Tide and the frat, our as law Rome rarely came back here anyet away so for the key in my pocket, I fished it out and opened the wooden door, deciding not to turn on the lights If I did, drunken coeds ca to use it for a fk pad Didn’t wanna cope with that tonight
The su place: all wooden walls and floors, thick red drapes at the o brown leather couches, an open fire, a se fk off skylight in the ceiling, flooding only the center of the house with light Just another exaet treated in this town
What twenty-one-year-old frat boy needs a fkin’ summerhouse? But I spent a lot of tiuys playing beer pong and cracking on chicks, when Ma in pain, orshot in a drive-by I had to keep et to the draft That was et drafted and save us all
No pressure
Football was my way out
It was my answer
It’s the answer to all the Carillos’ prayers
Slouching on the sofa, I pulled out h cash for those pills for Maood trade Maet her off to sleep We’re getting it done the Carillo way, Aust Let’s keep it going
But just as I putnuht shadowing on the light wooden walls of the su just enough roo I was pretty far back here at the house and shaded by so down, I should be safe from view