Hot by Halloween by Jessica Bucher & M. F. Lorson

Author:Jessica Bucher & M. F. Lorson [Bucher, Jessica & Lorson, M. F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Addy

“Three years.” barked Willow. “We haven’t lost to Yorktown in three years. I sure as hell am not planning to lose my senior year.”

“No pressure,” I mumbled to Amy who snickered beside me.

“What was that, Addy?” asked Willow, glaring at me from her lofty perch above the changing bench. I briefly considered telling her we weren’t in a great American sports movie. She didn’t need to stand on the furniture and yell at us. This was a dual meet, not the world championships. But my better judgement told me to keep those thoughts to myself. She wasn’t exactly a listener, anyway.

Instead, I hopped to my feet and placed my hand up to my forehead in a crisp salute. “Aye aye, Captain, ready and able!” The girls in the locker room giggled. Our captain didn’t like me, that was for sure, but it didn’t seem like everyone felt that way.

Willow, however, was on a real tear today. “It’s all a joke to you,” she snapped, her face screwed up in an angry, frustrated expression. “But some of us have been working at this for years.”

Suddenly, the buzz of giggling girls, excited for a meet, became the sound of people scurrying as far from the drama as possible.

“I am going to do my best,” I replied, double-checking my bag for goggles and that stupid swim cap I hated so much. “You might not believe me, but I don’t actually want to let everyone down.”

The hard set line of Willow’s jaw relaxed just a little. “I believe you’re doing your best,” she replied. “But your best isn’t competition material.” And with that she slung her bag over her shoulder and slid past me to the showers.

I bit my tongue so hard I tasted blood. It would have felt awfully good to give her a piece of my mind right then and there with the whole locker room as an audience. As far as I was concerned she stood on a pedestal she didn’t deserve, and all it would take was one sweep of the leg to bring her down.

I didn’t though. Despite her bad attitude, I couldn’t ignore the fact that both she and Gray wanted the same thing, to finish their senior year with a winning season. The difference was, where he was willing to help me improve to get there, she clearly just planned to bully me into quitting.

Unfortunately for her, that wasn’t going to happen. Gray may have been joking when he said I just had to swim better to win her over, but at this moment, that was my official plan.

Besides, I really was swimming better. I’d logged more hours in the pool this week than I had in front of Netflix, and that was saying something.

The medley was the third race in today’s meet. So, luckily for me, I got to watch Gray plow through the butterfly before I had to get in the pool myself. No surprise, Gray dominated both our guys and theirs. He didn’t, however,

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