Page 43 of Fighting Chance
Maybe I’m a masochist, but I don’t usually fall for women, let alone ones that ignore me. Usually, I’m the one dodging texts and calls and yet my phone holds a helluva lot of unanswered texts from the one girl I would quite literally do anything to be around.
Shaking off the bizarre feelings running havoc through my chest, I pick up my phone, figuring it’s time to face my situation. I know myself well enough to recognize that I won’t be able to play well tomorrow at the preseason game with this secret hanging over my head. It would gut me if my teammates found out through the press and not through me.
It’s why I fire off a text.
ICEHAWKS BITCHES
KIERAN
can everyone come to the arena twenty minutes early tomorrow?
IRVING
why the fuck would we do that
I need my beauty sleep
JOHNSON
clearly you fail miserably at that daily
IRVING
you calling me ugly, Johnson?
JOHNSON
you said it not me
VALENTI
harsh
IRVING
thank you Matteo, always can count on you
VALENTI
I’d say he gets in one good beauty sleep a month
JOHNSON
HAHAHA
IRVING
fuck you
KIERAN
if you dipshits aren’t there early I’ll leak the videos from Cabo
ELLINGTON
damn dude, harsh to hang that over their heads
JOHNSON
