The school's Fall Kickoff event had been on the calendar since August, and for most of Crestwood High it was simply the first real social event of the year, a Friday afternoon occasion involving food, music, a student showcase, and the general atmosphere of people who were happy summer was over and happier still to have somewhere to be.For Ava Bennett, it was a logistics problem that someone had failed to solve correctly.She found out about the scheduling conflict on Friday morning, forty minutes before first period, when she arrived at the events board outside the main office to confirm the cheer squad's performance slot and found a printed memo pinned directly over the confirmation she had received two weeks ago.The memo informed her that the football team's season opening presentation, which included a highlight reel, a team introduction, and remarks from the captain, had been allocated the same thirty-minute window as the cheer squad's showcase, in the same space, on the same s
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