When We Were Us by Tawdra Kandle

Author:Tawdra Kandle [Kandle, Tawdra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Keeping Score, Book One
Publisher: Tawdra Kandle
Published: 2016-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

“Lion!

Matt Lampert pounded up behind me in the locker room and gave me a friendly punch in the side. “Dude, you rocked today. We’re gonna crush them on Friday night.”

“Yeah.” I pulled my practice jersey off over my head. “I guess.”

“What’s the matter?” Matt opened his own locker and began to undress. “You should be flying high. Coach even said something good about you. That almost never happens.”

“That’s true.” I sat down on the bench. “I’m just tired. It’s been a long week.” It had actually been more like a long month since our game against Franklin Township. We’d ended up playing some of the toughest teams in our conference over the past four weeks, and all those stressful, important games were beginning to take their toll on me. My grades had taken an unusual dip, I’d lost weight, and I wasn’t sleeping well.

“We got a couple of days before the game. Let’s chill tonight. Come on over, and we’ll eat pizza, slay some zombies and knock back some brews.”

I rubbed my hand over my face. “I’m supposed to do something with Sarah tonight. I haven’t taken her out in like, a week.”

“Is she complaining?” Matt grabbed his towel.

“Nah. I just feel bad.” Guilty was a more accurate description of how I felt. I hadn’t intended to start anything serious with Sarah; she was supposed to be a temporary distraction for me and diversion tactic for Quinn. I’d figured we’d have some fun, and then it would sizzle out, like things always did. We’d part friends again, and I’d be off the hook.

But for some reason, that hadn’t happened. One date had led into another, and before I knew it, people in school were referring to us as a couple. Like it was official or something. Sarah, to her credit, never put any pressure on me. If I didn’t call her, she didn’t give me shit. She didn’t insist on hanging all over me in school, the way some girls did with their boyfriends.

And if she’d noticed that I got more interested and affectionate whenever I’d seen Quinn hanging with Jake Donavan, she didn’t mention it.

I wasn’t sure what was going on between Quinn and Jake. They hung out at school, but I couldn’t say for sure if that was happening more than it had before or not. I didn’t know anyone who was friends with them, so I couldn’t just casually ask. I thought about checking with Nate, but he ignored me whenever we passed in the hall. If Quinn really was dating Donavan, I couldn’t imagine Nate was any happier than I was.

Not that I had any right to care. I’d had a chance with Quinn, and I’d thrown it away, on purpose. I’d chosen the way that was better for her. I was sure Jake Donavan was just her type; as a senior and editor of the paper, everyone liked him, even though I didn’t think he was a big partier. I’d seen the way his eyes

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