Live Love Lacrosse by Barbara Clanton

Author:Barbara Clanton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Sports $ Recreation / General
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing
Published: 2016-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

It’s Not Fatal

KIMI’S SATURDAY MORNING knock on the front door might have seemed early for some, but Addie was up, dressed, and ready to go. She bounded to the front door with her new sports bag that proudly held her goggles, mouth guard in its new case, new cleats, which she needed to break in, a new towel to wipe off the gallons of sweat she was bound to produce at that morning’s tryout, two brand-new filled water bottles, gloves, and an extra pair of sports socks. She’d never had sports socks before. The bill came to almost two hundred dollars, but her father paid it willingly. Oddly, Troy wouldn’t let their father buy him anything; he just sat on one of the benches in the mall outside the sporting good’s store and wouldn’t even go in. It was weird because he had been trying to get their mother to buy him all kinds of stuff at that same store just two nights before.

Addie flung open the front door and Kimi gasped. “Whoa, Addie. You look like a real lacrosse player now!”

Addie beamed and twirled on the front porch. “Like my shirt?” Her new shirt read, “Lacrosse! Legally beating people with sticks since 1494!” It had a picture of a lacrosse player in full gear holding his stick up high.

Kimi laughed. “I told you you’d get hooked on LAX!”

They headed down the steps and onto the sidewalk.

“I’m so nervous,” Addie admitted. “What if Coach Marks doesn’t even let me try out? What if I can’t run like everyone else? What if I’m last in every drill and exercise you guys do? What if they laugh at me, Kimi?”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, Addie. Slow down there. Think about this. You actually scored a goal on Brooke on Wednesday.”

“Oh, yeah. That was sweet.”

“She was so mad.” Kimi laughed. “Zoinks, she said the sun was in her eyes. Yeah, right. Whatever.”

They walked on in silence for a moment and then Kimi added, “I know you’re new to the sport and everything, but we were all new once. Didn’t Coach Cairns tell you that?”

Addie nodded.

“And you’re picking it up really fast. You can almost keep up with me in my boot camp circuit training, right?”

“More like circuit torture.”

Kimi nudged Addie with her shoulder and laughed.

“Hey, Kimi?”

“Yeah?”

“Have you ever heard of, like . . . um . . .” Addie wasn’t sure how to bring up the topic.

“Heard of what?”

“Like, making yourself throw up after you eat. Like, on purpose?”

“You’re not doing that, are you?” Kimi stopped in her tracks and whirled around to face Addie.

“No, no, no.” But that was a little bit of a lie. During the movie the night before, Addie ate two candy bars, drank her own jumbo-sized Coke, and ate the entire tub of buttered popcorn. Once she got home, she went up to the bathroom she shared with her mother and Troy and put the fan on hoping the extra noise would block out any sound. She wasn’t sure if that was enough, so she turned the water faucet on full-blast just in case.

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