Scoring Chance by Lane Martin

Author:Lane Martin [Martin, Lane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lane Martin
Published: 2019-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

I heard through Adelaide and Kassie that Rhett traveled to California to visit his dad for Thanksgiving while the team had a break.

I missed him.

I yearned to know how things had gone on his trip. I picked up the phone at least a hundred times to call him but never hit the green button to dial. I started what felt like my thousandth text message but deleted it like all the others. I spent every second I wasn’t in class working on homework and finalizing plans for the Little Miners program. Rhett submitted his proposal on the educational portion of the program to Kassie and me via email. It was a brilliant proposal.

I missed hearing his voice.

Once winter break was over, we would begin looking for our initial group of players. I mindlessly refolded the jerseys we’d just got in for the kids. “Earth to Eden.” Kassie snapped her fingers inches away from my face, bringing me back to the present.

“Oh sorry, I zoned out.” I was doing a lot of that lately.

“Why don’t you just call him or go over to his house and talk to him?” Holiday music played softly in the background as snow softly fell outside. I used to love this time of year. Not the holidays so much as the blanket of white covering everything. Only lately it reminded me that the snow didn’t represent a fresh, clean start. No, the snow just covered up the ugly that lay beneath it. In the spring the snow would melt, and everything that hid beneath it would be on display once again. Just like my life. I could change my name, but I couldn’t change who I was. I was the girl whose mother shamed not only the sport she loved but her country.

“It’s better this way.” I said the words to her, but they were more for me. Kassie and Adelaide were both head-over-heels in love, so they saw everything through rose-colored glasses. They didn’t understand why Rhett and I couldn’t work things out.

I missed his laugh.

“Better for whom, exactly?” Annoyance laced Kassie’s words.

“For Rhett. He needs someone who can support him.” I shrugged as I continued folding the already folded stupid shirts.

“Bullshit.” Kassie wasn’t one to mince words.

I missed his smile.

“It’s not bullshit,” I fired back. “Devin has said it himself and you’ve seen the articles just as well as I have.” With the comeback season her man was having, the media had been focused on why he was playing so well. The answer, according to the press, was glaringly simple: Devin’s game had improved because he’d met and fallen for a terrific and supportive woman, a woman who stood before me, frustrated beyond reason.

“Kassie is right, Eden. It’s complete bullshit.” The man himself entered the room. It wasn’t surprising that he would side with his girlfriend, but he had said otherwise to the sports media. I’d heard it myself. He pulled Kassie into his arms and kissed her fiercely before returning his attention to me.

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