Crash Into You by Diana Morland

Author:Diana Morland [Morland, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LoveLight Press
Published: 2016-12-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Megan screamed, pumping her right arm in the air. “Get her! Faster! Faster!”

But Helen didn’t seem to hear her. Or more likely, Helen could hear her, but that didn’t actually make her legs move any faster or any more likely to knock down the other team’s blocker. Helen was stopped again and again, and the other team’s jammer was speeding past her, Gayle, and the rest of the team on the track.

Megan groaned and sat back in frustration even as the rest of the audience erupted in cheers. The other team’s jammer had made it through, the first lead jammer of the game, and Helen followed it up with a spectacular fall.

Thankfully, the fall just looked dramatic, and Helen got up quickly, grinning and waving at the crowd. She pushed past the pack and spun her wheels down the track, trying to overtake the other team’s jammer, but she wasn’t quite fast enough.

Megan itched to be back on the track. She’d gone almost a week without any skating. She’d seen the doctor the day before, and the doctor had said she could skate slowly, so—after making Megan swear up and down she was telling the truth about the doctor’s orders—Shelly had let her take a couple of laps before tonight’s game. But now that the game had started, she was benched, and all she could do was watch her team play and feel incredibly frustrated that she wasn’t joining them.

She’d come to the practices (partly to support her team, partly to at least see what they were doing, and partly because she had nothing else to do with her evenings), but those hadn’t been nearly as frustrating. She loved skating, but what she really loved about roller derby was the adrenaline—the fight. That was what she was missing tonight.

She didn’t have to be missing it, of course.

Gianna was in the audience, too; Megan had seen her when the team had skated out, before she sat down. She wondered whether Rolling in the Streets didn’t have a game tonight, but of course, most teams didn’t have a match every single Saturday night.

She hated the idea of Gianna missing a derby match to come see her. The idea was ridiculous—Gianna knew where she lived and where she worked; she could have come to visit any time during the week—but it stuck with her nonetheless.

Helen was passing the other team’s jammer now, having passed half the pack. Megan yelled and screamed, but her heart wasn’t in it as much.

Seconds later, the jam ended with the teams tied, 5-5. It was a promising start. Megan knew her team could win without her; it meant a little more work for the other jammers, but with her out, there were still thirteen people to take their turns on the track. They were all good skaters, and they could do it without her.

She just wished they didn’t have to.

She glanced over her shoulder at Gianna, who was cheering with the rest of the crowd as the

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