The Fifteenth Minute by Sarina Bowen

Author:Sarina Bowen [Bowen, Sarina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942444091
Publisher: Rennie Road Books
Published: 2015-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

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We both climb into our cars, and Jack drives away first. For a few minutes I just sit there, too spent to drive myself back. It’s five o’clock. Right now the women’s game is just starting. Lianne has texted me a picture of the women warming up on the ice. “I’m ready,” she’s added. “Don’t worry about a thing.”

As if.

I drive back to Harkness, and there’s traffic. By the time I park my brother’s car behind the rink where he keeps it, people are already streaming out of the game. I check my phone again and find a stream of text messages from Lianne. Having a great time, she wrote during the first period. Played “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” when we scored. Played “Shake it Off” when they scored.

Yep. She totally has the hang of it.

My phone buzzes in my hand with a text from goalie Scarlet Crowley. DJ! You are awesome! We loved the 100% chick music.

Of course they had. Don’t thank me, I reply. It was Lianne in the booth today. I get out of the car and lock it, thinking about my shaky future at Harkness. Then I text Scarlet again. You should ask Lianne if she wants the job permanently. She might enjoy that. I add Lianne’s email address and then shove the phone in my pocket.

An hour later I’m home in our silent house. The guys are in Boston tonight to play Harvard. It practically echoes with silence, and I could be getting a lot of school work done. But I’m ridiculously tired from being grilled all day. And my classwork seems even more pointless than usual.

I turn the TV on and flip a few channels. My phone lights up with messages from my parents—both of them separately—asking how it went. Since they’re paying the lawyer a big chunk of change to try to extract me from my troubles, I really ought to call them back. But I can’t seem to make myself do it. They want to hear of progress, and all I can hear is Jack saying, “We won’t go down quietly.”

Tonight the fight is all out of me.

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