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“No,” I huffed “He walked ive it to hiler This is crazy, Pres I can’t get kicked off the squad”

“Oh” She chewed her bottoht you…”

“That I’d have a one-night stand?” I used my best astonished voice

“I guess not Ballerinas don’t do that sort of thing, huh?”

“No, we don’t”

I walked behind her to start the team dance I had narrowly saved my reputation Now I needed to talk to Heather In case word spread, I wanted to make sure it was the story I wanted them to hear They needed to know I hadn’t broken the Goddess code She was the teaardless of our friendship, she played a ement role

“That kind of sucks,” she whispered

“Why is that? You said I could lose my job”

She giggled “Because Sa hot”

I closedidea how true that was

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Sam

The locker room was insane We had bulldozed the Warriors by twenty-one points Our defense had let them add a few touchdowns on the board, but that shit happens

Coach could barely bark out his victory speech over all theI was surrounded by a bunch of happy, naked bastards It felt good to win

But she was in the back of my mind There was no way I could walk into the dance squad locker rooeon they called an AFA stadium There were tunnels and hallways under the stands that I had never explored We took one path in from the bus and the saht need to knoay around