Stay by Emily Evans

Author:Emily Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emily Evans
Published: 2016-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Lauren and Maddie grabbed for Mia, somewhat slowing her fall, but she landed flat out on the track, winded. The track was hot and hard and her hair pulled under the weight of someone’s tennis shoe. Mia lifted a hand to push at the ankle.

“Oops, sorry,” Willow said, and the pressure on Mia’s head eased.

They hadn’t had such an epic tumble since they first formed a squad, back when the bases would just hold her toe and heel, rather than her whole foot, keeping it steady. She’d grown too confident.

“You did that on purpose,” Lauren shouted at Willow, while picking herself up out of the tangled mass of arms and legs. Mia tried to say it was an accident, but she had no breath.

“Give her room,” Maddie said, making the girls back up. All of them did except Lauren and Willow.

“Mia needs to work on her balance.” Willow had her hands on her hips and she used her bossy captain voice. “She needs to increase her attention on the squad, not just focus on the guy she’s living with.”

Lauren threw out her arms. “He’s her brother. Well, step-brother. Well, he’s her sister’s brother.”

Next she saw tan guy legs. She tilted her head, relieved it didn’t hurt to make that move. Alexi stood over her in his soccer uniform. He must have left practice. Sweet. But maybe not the best time.

Alexi knelt, ran his hands down her arms and legs, a fleeting, glancing check of her unbroken limbs. “Don’t move.”

A couple more guys from the team got there next, then Coach. “I’ll call the nurse,” Coach said.

No, please.

“Nurse?” Alexi shook his head.

Mia sucked in a breath. Good. She didn’t need a nurse. This was so embarrassing. What a klutz. She should have watched her footing. She struggled up to her elbows.

Alexi spoke into his phone. “Mia fell. Pull the car around and arrange for a doctor to meet us at the house.”

“Car? Don’t you mean limo?” Willow said, but Alexi ignored her.

Doctor. “What? No, I’m fine.” This wasn’t her first fall, or even her fifteenth. Maybe her balance wasn’t all that. She could be a base. Mia sucked in a deep breath and could smell the black spongy surface of the track. She bet she had marks from the track’s surface along the backs of her arms and legs.

More guys from the team ran over. A sea of yellow and purple workout clothes. The girls moved back in closer. A sea of stares. A whole team worth of stares. Willow got in front of her, right beside Alexi. She could see the dragon fire emblem on her socks. “Oh no,” Willow said, “you really could be hurt. That was at least two feet.”

It was way more than that. Willow was acting like she did whenever she was in a fight with someone. Like a big B. That someone had just never been her.

“We should take you to the emergency room.” Willow’s tone was super exaggerated and sarcastic. Some of the other cheerleaders and several of the guys laughed.

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