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Chapter 71 — About to kick off with the game.

Trevor's POV Coach Pierre had been true to his word. I had gotten a new outfit within the hour. It looked like a proper coaching shirt and fitted trousers, the kind of thing that made you look like you belonged on the sideline rather than beside the water station. When I put it on I stood there for a moment just taking in the fact that I was no longer in the crop top and white shorts, which was a sentence I had not expected to feel as significant as it did. I got to the field sidelines as the evening started filling up … students filing into the bleachers, the energy of the crowd building in that specific way it did before a homecoming match. As everyone carried the particular brightness of people who had been looking forward to something and were now watching it arrive. I found my spot on the sideline and set up the water and electrolyte dispenser that I had been given for the match. Even though Sean had made it

Chapter 72 — Could he be trying to stand in my way of success?

Sean's POV"Tonight, we play our rivals … Velocity Squad." My dad's voice carried across the circle with that particular weight it always had in these moments, the one that made the pre-match ritual feel like something bigger than a pep talk. "This is the only win that matters this season. We have to beat them. Yeah?""Yeah!!!" The team echoed back in unison, and the energy inside that circle tightened the way it always did in the 60 seconds before everything became real."All right." My dad said, and then he did the thing I had not anticipated. He turned and tapped the person standing next to him. "Son, tell him the plan."I registered the word before I registered who he was talking to. ‘Son.’ My head had already started turning toward him … the automatic, years-long reflex of responding to that word in my father's voice … before I processed that his hand was on Trevor's shoulder and not mine.Trevor was kinda startled at first. I watched it happen … the slight jerk of someone who ha

Chapter 73 — The Reveal By The Principal.

Sean's POVThe scout will never see me now. I gave up everything for you. And you took what was left.The thought sat in me while I stood there looking at Trevor, and the frustration of it was not simple — it was layered in a way that made it hard to separate what I was actually angry about from what I was actually feeling underneath the anger."Sean, I'm sorry." Trevor said it quietly. He had seen the expression on my face, was clearly reading what was moving through me, and the apology was genuine — I could hear that. It did not fix anything but I could hear that he meant it. "I just wanted to help."I looked at him for a moment. Then at the field. Then at the stands where the Cambridge scout was sitting somewhere in a sea of blue and white, having come here specifically to watch me play, and was now going to watch me function as a human distraction mechanism for the other team's defense while Remy ran the ball."Get some good face time with the Cambridge scout." I said it quietly, t

Chapter 74 — Could I ever face his wrath when all of these would be over?

Trevor's POV I needed to hear it one more time. Not because I doubted her — Principal Helen was not the kind of person who walked up to students at homecoming games to tell them fiction — but because the sentence she had just said to me was one of those sentences that required more than one pass before it fully landed. "Sean told you to pass my budget?" I said it carefully, watching her face, making sure I was not adding anything that was not there. "I wanted to reject it." She said it plainly, with the specific directness she used when she was being honest rather than diplomatic. "Knowing the negative effect it might have for him. But he said that you have shown great leadership and that you deserve for it to pass." She held my eyes while she said it. Like she wanted to make sure it went in properly. I stood there. I knew what the budget approval cost him. I had know

Chapter 75 — Don't say that about yourself.

Trevor's POV The match continued and the noise from the crowd had reached the kind of level where thinking clearly required deliberate effort. I pulled my focus back to the field and tried to be useful — watching the plays develop, tracking how the reverse straight arrow was landing in real time, making notes on the clipboard that Coach Pierre had left in my hands. What I was actually watching was Sean. He was running the decoy role the way he ran everything on a football field — completely and without half-measures. Every play, the defense came for him. Every play, he positioned himself like the ball was coming to him, drawing that line of defenders toward his position while the actual play went the other direction. He was doing it with the same intensity he used when he was the one receiving the ball, which was the part that made it work — because a convincing decoy required someone who was not perfor

Chapter 76 — Hatrick in the second half.

Trevor's POVI just needed to say something, seeing how angry Sean already was. "I agree that my dream has a higher stake for society at large." I paused and then reached for his hand, taking it in mine. "But that shouldn't stop you from going after what you want."He stood there and said nothing. The look on his face was doing several things at once — the frustration still present, something underneath it that was more raw, and the particular emotional quality that showed up on him when he had been carrying something for too long and it was getting close to the surface."I am going to talk to the coach." I said it before he could produce a response that closed the door. "I have already thought through how to rewrite the plays for the second half." I held his eyes. "Now that Velocity Squad expects you to be the decoy — they are going to keep the same strategy. Which means the moment you are back in the play for real, those lanes are going to open up wider than they have all night." I f

Chapter 77— The homecoming nominations.

Anna's POVThe football game was over and the Rangers had won and the whole building had shifted into that particular energy of a school that had just watched its team go seven to one and was now ready to celebrate itself for the rest of the night. The party kicked off immediately — music, lights, everyone finding their spot and their people and their version of the evening.I had been waiting for this part. The game was for the team. This part was for me."Everyone, are you ready to find out this year's homecoming court nominees?" Nadine's voice came over the mic, and the room responded the way rooms responded when they had been primed for something all evening and were now being handed it."Yes!" The crowd went up, and I was already standing in the right position, already aware of the people immediately around me, already calculating.This was what I had been building toward since the semester started. Not the game, not the lock-in, not any of the moving parts I had been managing for

Chapter 78— Max got what he deserved.

Trevor's POVI was at the back of the room when the announcements started, standing slightly away from the main crowd with my jotter in hand, still making notes because the evening was still technically an event I was part of managing and old habits were difficult to put down even when the night had already taken several turns I had not anticipated."...Trevor Matai."I heard my name and the first thing my brain produced was the assumption that Nadine was trying to get my attention for something event-related. I started looking up to find her, trying to read from her face what she needed, and then I registered that she was not looking at me the way a person looked at their assistant. She was looking at me the way an announcer looked at a nominee.And then everyone else was looking at me the same way."Me?" I pointed at myself. Actually pointed, with one finger, at my own chest, because that felt like the only way to confirm that the name that had just been called was mine and not some

Chapter 79 — Trevor, I love you.

Sean's POVI was not done.I reached down and grabbed Max by the collar — not the controlled version of grabbing someone, but the version that came from somewhere past patience, from a place that had been building since the parking lot and the locker room and every moment I had watched him use his size and his mouth to come after someone who had not given him a single real reason to. I pulled him up enough to close the distance between our faces. "I am sick of your hateful ignorance." I said it directly into his space. "Now get the hell out of my space." And then I released his collar and pushed him back.He stumbled. Found his footing. Looked at me with that expression he used when he had decided something was not over regardless of what the other person thought.I should have known better than to think he was done."You just want to get rid of me because I know the truth." He said it with the bold, reckless energy of someone who had already calculated that they had nothing left to lo

Chapter 80— Anna's blackmails exposed.

Trevor's POVSean had just said it. Out loud. Into a microphone. In front of the entire school, the principal, the football team, and a Cambridge scout who had come here for a football game and had ended up with considerably more than he bargained for.I love you.I held his face in both hands. The room was still going — the noise, the crowd, all of it — but in that specific way where I was aware of it and also completely separate from it at the same time. I looked at him and the smile that came was the real kind, the full kind, the one I had spent most of this year keeping managed and contained and pointed somewhere other than directly at him."I love you too." I said it simply and meant every single word of it.He blinked. "Yeah?" He said it with a disbelief that was not quite performance — the specific kind that came from someone who had said the thing they were terrified to say and had not fully believed until this moment that they would hear it back."Yes." I said.Then I brought

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