Benching Brady_The Perfect Game Series by Samantha Christy

Author:Samantha Christy [Christy, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Dripping wet from the many bottles of champagne that were poured over us in the locker room after our momentous victory, my coach pulls me aside, looking as somber as I’ve ever seen him. Oh, shit, did we lose after all? Was there some kind of technicality that disqualified us?

“Son, you need to head back to Lincoln right now,” he says. “There’s been an accident.”

“Accident?”

He nods sadly. “Natalie and Keeton are at Lincoln Memorial.”

“What? No, Natalie is here at the game.”

“I’m sorry, son. She never made it here.”

“A car accident?”

“I don’t have any details, Brady.” He motions for one of the assistant coaches. “Dan will drive you as soon as you get changed.”

Nat and Keet are in the hospital? The gravity sinks in and I feel a wave of nausea. I run over to Dan. “I don’t need to change, let’s go now.”

In the car, I call Natalie’s phone, hoping she’ll answer. Car accidents happen all the time. Maybe they took them to the hospital as a precaution. She doesn’t answer. I try her sister, Katie, next since Natalie was supposed to drop Keeton off with her before she came to the game. No answer.

I hesitate as my finger hovers over her father’s name on my contacts screen. Was he in town this weekend? I can’t remember. I tap on his name, wondering if it’s the right thing to do. If he doesn’t already know about the accident, I have no details to tell him. If he’s not in town, knowing him, he’ll jump on the next plane just so he can try to micromanage the doctors and nurses should Natalie or Keet need special care. But my call rolls to voicemail.

I start the process over again, first calling Natalie, then Katie, then Dennis. Someone has to answer eventually. I’m about to give up and try to call the hospital directly when Katie answers her phone.

“Brady, hold on.” I hear her talking to someone who yells at her before the voices go silent and a door shuts in the background. I could swear it was Dennis’s voice I heard. “Are you on your way?”

“Yes. What happened? And why hasn’t anyone been answering the phone? Was that your dad? Why was he yelling at you?”

“He … he thought it best not to bother you during the game. He knows how much the game meant to you.”

“Wait, hold on a damn second. He told you not to bother me during the game? Just how long have they been in the hospital?”

“About five hours.”

“Five hours?” I shout into the phone. “Why didn’t you call me? Why didn’t someone get me out of the game? Hell, that was before the game even started. What the fuck happened, Katie?”

I can hear her crying. Shit.

“Katie?”

“J-just get here as f-fast as you c-can, okay?”

“Katie, what the hell is going on?”

The line goes dead. I check the time to see we’re still about twenty minutes out. “Drive faster, Dan.”

When we reach Lincoln Memorial, he drops me at the emergency entrance and I run in and tell them who I am.

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