Fox (The Player Book 4) by Nana Malone

Author:Nana Malone [Malone, Nana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sankofa Girl
Published: 2017-04-10T18:30:00+00:00

It was a relief to Fox when he arrived at the team’s press conference, and discovered that most of the attention was focused on Henri and the exiting goalie. He mostly just sat off to the side, presumably out of frame for most of the broadcasts. There were only three questions that came his way, and they were mostly about his family.

“How do your parents feel about your big break?” one reporter asked. “It must have been intimidating, when you told them that, of all things, you wanted to play hockey.” There was a murmur of laughter from the crowd, and even Fox smiled.

“Bryce helped me out with breaking the news on that one,” he joked. “He’d already had to go through it when he told them he wanted to play tennis, so… I think they were surprised. But they’ve always been pretty great about making sure we all had the opportunities to explore our interests and talents, whatever they have been.”

Another reporter jumped in. “As the first Coulter to branch out into hockey, do you feel like there’s as much pressure on you to perform to your family’s high standards, or is it easier not having a specific relative to compare yourself to in that regard?”

“I don’t know that I have anything I can compare it to, to be honest,” Fox said with a shrug. “Dax and Echo have both gone down that road where my grandfather’s concerned, but I’m not either of them, so I can’t say I know what it was like for them with any certainty. I only know what it’s been like for me.”

“And how would you describe that?” the reporter hastily followed up.

“It’s been… I’m definitely hard on myself. But we all have a tendency to be hard on ourselves, and maybe that’s what pushes us to do the best we can. All I know is I’ve always loved hockey, and I’m really excited for the opportunity I’m being given,” he finished, getting himself back on track and looking to Coach Tremblay. Coach didn’t look too irritated and took back his command of the press in the room.

After it was over, Fox tried to apologize to Coach about his little tangent, but Tremblay cut him off and assured him he’d done fine, and that he’d see him suited up on the bench for the game in a few hours.

Fox found some time between the end of the press conference and the time he would need to suit up for the game to call his parents and check in.

“I know that I got a little off-track there,” he started off. He’d never been as savvy as Echo or Bryce when it came to handling the media. Nor had he been the focus of its spotlight before, either. Dax had been, and probably still was. The most prominent of the siblings when it came to the media and instantaneous recognition, but since he and Asha had become a couple, he’d become a master of handling reporters and the press.

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