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"How "

He’d assu that a supermodel with an always-there mother and no dad in the picture probably didn’t have many chances to watch football on TV or live at a stadiua to score and a defense trying to stop theet the first down If you don’t get at least those ten yards, the other side gets the ball You score by getting the ball in the end zone, or depending on your field position you can try to kick the ball through the uprights for a field goal"

"Surely it’s more complicated than that"

"There are a bunch of extra details I could add in like penalties, turnovers and safeties, but if you just reet the ball in the end zone, and the defense is trying to stop thea concessions "I’s, candy, and Coke What kind of candy is your favorite?"

"If I had to guess, I’d say all of it"

If she had to guess? Hadn’t she grown up eating teeth-rotting candy like the rest of them?

He told the teenage girl to give thes, a huge bag of popcorn and two bottles of Coke

"Tonightyou a fortune," Serena said when he came back with the pile of junk food in his hands "I want to pay next ti about next time "Nope I asked, I pay"

"Then I’ll just have to ask you first, won’t I?" Before he could interject, she said, "Will you go out with reen lipstick then by kissing her "You know," he said when he e of finding so normal for us to do"

That seemed to take the wind out of her sails a bit "What if I blow it?"

"I have faith in you"

She stopped then and stared at him as if he’d just blown herelse, the ref blew the whistle for the opening kickoff Together, they sat back in their seats, his arm around her shoulders, her head nestled into his chest, and both enjoyed forgetting about everything else in their lives for a few hours

Everything but each other

Serena quickly picked up the ga and ju with everyone else when Stanford won in the final seconds of the fourth quarter