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‘Guess you didn’t know me very well’ Hell, she hadn’t realised how far down the ladder she’d dropped Yet all of a sudden she was here, getting out and looking for fun, not just hoping it ht come her way if soet out and start living she hadn’t expected it to happen so fast It was Nathan By believing in her, he’d pushed her boundaries and helped her open up soht’
Past tense, Mol You’re over that now
Georgia’s gaze was on every ured’
Coach was the second person she’d opened up to, though only briefly There’d been no in-depth talk about Paul and the abuse, but just adood in a way she’d never have believed
It was good the barriers were dropping here too, but there were soo The likelihood of infertility for one Today Nathan had learned more than she was prepared to share with just anyone She’d spent so long trying to o of the reticence to talk about it now What if she woke up tomorrow to find it was all a load of bulldust and she wasn’t any further on? That people thought what happened was her own fault?
Then you’ll try again, and again, until you get it right Until people accept you for who you are
Nathan hadn’t laughed or told her she was attention-seeking No, he’d believed her fro deep for another and found it wasn’t as hard to do as it used to be
Molly focused on the game
The score enty-seven all
The opposing team called for a substitute
Coach stood up ‘Eloise on Carmen off’
At half-time the team swilled water from bottles, wiped faces with towels, crowded around Coach for instructions, and said hi to Molly as though she’d never been away
The third quarter got under way, and the score continued to cli ahead only to have the Snakes catch up and pass them, before they took back the lead
Sarah snatched the ball, blocked an opposition player and swung around to throw for a goal, and tripped over the other player’s foot Down she went, hard, her elbow cracking on the floor, reaching out with her other hand to prevent hitting the deck with her head Pain contorted her face as she cried out, pulling her wrist against her midriff
The coach’s expletives were theSarah needs To do her wrist in again’
Molly rushed on court with Georgia and knelt down beside Sarah ‘Tell me where the pain is’
‘Same place as last time’
‘Where you fractured it?’
Sarah nodded abruptly, her lips white ‘Yeah’
‘Can I take a look?’
Another nod, and Sarah pushed her arm towards her ‘It feels just the saain’
Molly carefully touched the rapidly swelling wrist, then felt up Sarah’s aret you to the eency department’
A first-aider sank down on his knees beside them ‘Let me look at that’
Georgia glared at the young ency nurse, and she thinks Sarah has broken her wrist I’ll take her word on it’
‘All right, then We need to get her to hospital’
Molly stood up ‘I’ll take her’
Sarah glared at theame’s finished I want to watch the last quarter’
‘That’s not a great idea You’re in pain,’ Molly said
‘You’re telling e is, kno the pain works, and I can deal with it for a little while longer Now, help ame can resume’
Molly sia put an arh cookie’
‘Better believe it,’ Sarah said, then gasped with pain Locking eyes on Molly, she growled, ‘Don’t say a word’