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GRAYSON: NOW

Present Day

New York City

GRAYSON CONNORS WINS SUPER BOWL MVP, AGAIN

GRAYSON CONNORS LEADS NEW YORK TO CONSECUTIVE SUPER BOWL WIN

CONNORS’ LATE TOUCHDOWN LIFTS NEW YORK OVER NEW ENGLAND

I read this ’s headlines for the hundredth ti—anything, but it was no use This wasn’t what “winning” was supposed to feel like, and I would know because— well, I almost alon

As a heavy snow fell over Manhattan, I walked over to my balcony and watched a construction crew adjust a new billboard that read, "Go, Grayson Connors!"

Last year, I’d celebrated the cha as We’d drenched our teane, demanded over the top accommodations for the Super Bowl parade, and basked in the never-ending attention from women anted to knohat it felt like to sleep with a champion”

But this year, when the game clock struck zero, and the score was in h the ensuing media intervieith a fake s with the teaht horoupies aiting outside my condo

I decided to host h the five hundred contacts in my phone, I realized that there were only two people worth calling: My ain, encies when it snowed, and asking Kyle to celebrate days after defeating his teaotistical Even for me

I’ll ask him about it next weekend

I scrolled throughI’d missed someone, but the results were the same Frustrated, I tossed my phone at the wall and turned on the TV

As the announcers walked through their favorite ame, a knock came to my door

Confused as to whyh the peephole

Anna?