Keeping Score: A Sports Romance by Dee Lagasse

Author:Dee Lagasse [Lagasse, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

Jake

The field was empty.

Practice wasn’t expected to begin for another hour, but something told me I needed to get there early.

After my training session, I showered and made my way over to the place that had been my home away from home for four years of my life. I owed everything I had to my time here at Fox Hollow High School. If it weren’t for Coach Coleman and the other coaches on the team teaching me the fundamentals of football and about work ethic in general, I wouldn’t be in the NFL.

There were no days off, even in the off-season. If you weren’t committed to playing another sport or school activity, you spent your time after school in the weight room. As we got older, things like after-school jobs were also taken into consideration.

Coach wasn’t a tyrant by any means. Quite the opposite, really. If you didn’t want to put the work in, he wouldn’t force you; you just wouldn’t be part of the starting lineup.

The summer before freshman year, the weight room opened up to students wanting to utilize what the school had. I was the only freshman that showed up every day—even on the weekends.

After two weekends in a row, Coach invited me to the varsity tryout. I made the team and started in the very first game. He was hard on me. Sometimes it felt like Coach pushed me harder than anyone else. But, man, it felt fucking good to make him proud. It still did.

That was all I ever wanted.

Well, that…and to date his daughter.

I always assumed one was more of an attainable goal than the other.

“If you think being a big-time NFL player is going to get you out of carrying equipment out to the field, you’re very mistaken, my friend.”

I turned to face Isa, and my breath hitched in my chest.

I wished I’d had a warning, because seeing her standing mere inches away from me in a black crop-top T-shirt, paired with a matching backward baseball cap, all but did me in. Isa looked gorgeous all done up this morning, but seeing her like this sent a wave of nostalgia through me I couldn’t shake.

I gulped, hard, hoping she didn’t notice how thrown off-kilter I was by her presence. I forced myself to look away from her long, toned legs. They seemed to go on forever. My focus shifted to the way her tight cutoff jean shorts hugged her hips.

Did she have these same curves before?

Maybe I just pushed the idea of them to the back of my mind.

After all, there was nothing forgettable about her body.

“Never,” I managed to get out.

“Also,” she grinned mischievously as we walked to the storage closet on the far end of the field, “I brought a couple of boards if you wanted to hang out after this.”

“Boards, as in skateboards?”

One of the first things I bought with my paper route money was a skateboard. I was so desperate to find something—anything—in which to bond with Isa. I fell on my ass a lot when I first started.

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