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“It’s important to you that you not let them down”

“It’s the best thing going in h stuff”

“When you were a kid”

He stopped “Yeah, how’d you know?” He looked at me and my stomach dropped like an ice block had crashed intohe’d told me in his letters In person, Berk talked like there’d never been a cloud in the sky, let alone bringing up so hard from his past

“We’re only seniors I figure you had to have played before in high school and stuff”

He started walking again “True It gotphysical A way to burn off all that energy and pent-up emotions”

“I’ so important to you”

“And the paychecks won’t hurt, which is why I need to kill it this season to get a good draft pick”

“How can they deny your skill on the field?”

“Know a lot about football?” He cast e

“Even so in the last game”

“Half of us, anyway” He dragged his hands over his face “Do you want a ride back to your place?”

I felt like the nerdy girl getting offered a ride houess that was appropriate, because that was exactly as happening

“I’ll repay you in peanut butter cup double chocolate cupcakes”

“I’d give you a ride for free, Frenchie, but that doesn’t mean I won’t take you up on the offer”