Getting Schooled by Chase Emma

Author:Chase, Emma [Chase, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Getting Schooled
Publisher: Emma Chase, LLC
Published: 2018-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

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And bad it is.

I hear just how much as I walk down the hall towards the locker room after school. The mixture of despair and regret that sounds like a mortally wounded animal . . . but is really a seventeen-year-old boy who’s been dumped on his sorry ass.

I open the door and sure enough, there’s DJ lying on his back across the bench, with his forearm across his face, covering his eyes.

Crying.

For even the staunchest supporters of the “boys don’t cry” rule—a locker room is the exception. A thousand disappointed, heartbroken tears have been shed here.

Six of my starters surround DJ, without a single clue between them about what to do. If he’d twisted an ankle or cramped a muscle, they’d know. But a busted heart? That’s out of their league.

“I don’t get it,” Sam Zheng says. “If you still like her, why did you say all that crap to her in the hallway? Why didn’t you just say sorry?”

Ah . . . Sammy, he’s a sophomore—still innocent.

“I don’t know,” DJ moans. “I didn’t mean it.” He turns on his side, moaning, “How am I supposed to play tonight? How am I supposed to live without my bae?”

“Oh damn,” Kyle Lanigan gasps. “What if she bangs someone else to get back at you? Or two people . . . a threesome? Dude, she could be doing it right now! Like right now!”

DJ’s face crumples.

I walk to the bench, move his legs, and sit down.

Then I sigh. “You screwed up, Deej.”

“I did,” he sniffles. “I screwed up so bad, Coach.”

I look around at the faces of my players. “But, this could be a good thing. It’s better you all know the truth now, while you’re still young.”

They move closer, gathering around, staring at me like I’m Jesus Christ on the mount, about to preach.

“What’s the truth, Coach D?” Wilson asks, wide-eyed.

I lean forward and lower my voice. “The truth is, when it comes to guys and girls, men and women? We need them, more than they will ever, ever, need us.”

I’ve passed on a lot of life lessons to these boys, but this may be the most important of them all.

I mean, Stacey wasn’t even that great of a wife, but my brother’s a fucking basket case without her. Ryan without Angela? I don’t even want to know what kind of disaster that would look like. Hell, my old man can’t even make microwave popcorn without my mom telling him what buttons to push.

And me . . . it’s only been a few weeks . . . and the thought of Callie walking out of my life again makes my stomach fold in on itself and twist around in my gut.

I’m so incredibly screwed.

“Holy shit,” Wilson whispers, his teenage mind utterly blown. “You’re right.”

I nod my head. “Damn skippy.”

DJ sits up, wiping his eyes. “I gotta get her back, Coach. I love her, for real. I know we’re young, but . . . she’s the one . . .

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