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Chapter 1
Silas
The flash of a camera blinds me as I take my seat at the front of the roorates on my nerves A second flash Then a third Then I lose count Sweat gathers at the back ofslow and steady
Fuck this shit
I don’t want to be here I play football so I don’t have to think or talk As a general rule, I prefer to do hting Fucking
That’s what I kno to do Not this
Coach has finally taken his seat, and I feel the tension into the press He’s in the middle withhim, the tea about his plan for preseason caroup Everyone looks cal choirboy He probably lives for this kind of shit Torres has never ument he can’t talk his way out of or a skirt he won’t try to talk his way into And Carter is so full of bullshit, he has no trouble spewing it to others Andbeneath the table like an addict in need of a fix
If Coach weren’t so strict and observant, I would have tried to calm my nerves with a little weed prior to this whole media day circus But there’s no way I could have slid that past hi to cut that out since Levi was busted Coach has becoive pop quizzesonly with drug tests
"We’ve got a young teaibility," Coach says, slah this is Carter’s last year with us, we’ve got a solid group of lineoing to surprise people e e to build this season"
Coach opens up for questions, and even though I knohat’s co, my body still locks up at the first one "Coach Cole, your tea quarterback Levi Abraed a few is fell apart in the latter half of the season Mentally, where is your teaht now?"
"Last season, we had to do a lot of learning and discovery on the fly And unfortunately, we had to do that while also trying to win games But I’oes hard, and I’e to pick up the bottle of water in front of me and lob it at the reporter "I don’t think they fell apart at all actually The last half of our schedule was certainly er and better competition But win or lose, the teah to the last second every tiave it all they had As for where their heads are at now, I can’t say for certain I knohere they better be, though"
Laughter rolls through the room and the same reporter says, "Carson McClain, care to comment?"