A Crooked Mile (Rust Book 1) by Arthurs Samantha

Author:Arthurs, Samantha [Arthurs, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samantha Arthurs
Published: 2019-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen: Tis the Season

P eople loved to joke that Rust didn’t just have four seasons, they had five. There was, of course, spring, summer, fall, and winter, but in this particular piece of small town America there was also basketball season. In some parts of the country high school basketball didn’t start until just before Thanksgiving and ran into February. In places like Rust, however, where the snow flew more often than not in the winter months and where road conditions were often questionable after Thanksgiving, they started a little earlier to try and get in as much as they could before bad weather dictated the schedule.

So they began the season a few days after Halloween, with more intense practices and a couple of scrimmage games against teams from the most local high schools (which were at least an hour away, give or take, depending on the back roads and if they were passable still). Normally the start of the season excited Alec, and this year had been poised to be the most exciting yet. There would be scouts out at some of the games to watch him and a couple of the other guys, and he knew that he had to play well because this was his last shot at securing a scholarship.

He just couldn’t bring himself to be excited though, not even about the scouts. He needed the scholarship, true, and it was definitely part of his plan to escape the oppressive little town in which he felt trapped, but it still didn’t help the cause. The idea of playing, of going through the same motions so many times, made him feel a little panicked. It was compounded by the fact that Bryson was still on the team, and that his skill level had still not improved. Alec knew, and he figured Bryson did too, that he would be spending his season riding the pine pony except for maybe a couple of pity minutes at the end of any games that had a nice, lengthy lead. Their father would not like that at all, and the thought of incurring his wrath after each and every game just made Alec feel sick to his stomach .

Lately everything his father did made him feel sick. Their arguments had become more frequent, but were less about Alec’s actual indiscretions and more about his father not feeling like he did enough. He didn’t practice enough, didn’t help Bryson enough, and didn’t throw himself into things enough. Alec got the distinct impression that he would never, in fact, be enough for the man.

His anxieties were also egged on by Cameron, who was likewise part of the team. Though they had been civil to one another, it was clear that neither boy knew exactly how to fix their broken friendship. It wasn’t necessarily from lack of wanting to, Alec very much wanted his best friend back, it was more that the hurt ran rather deep. He wanted badly for Cameron to just understand

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