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Chapter 16

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Coach Dixon finds me on the locker room floor. He gets me back on my feet and cleans the blood off my face, neck, and chest. He asks me a hundred questions I don’t feel comfortable answering because he’s straight and twice my age and has sons who look like men I would pick up in sticky bars and do the naughtiest things to. A lot of the responses are, “I can’t remember,” which is bullshit. My mouth is swollen, but nothing seems broken from Darsey’s two, magnum hits once all the blood is cleaned up. Dixon feeds me two bottles of Gatorade; I’m not sure why. When he thinks I’m safe to drive, I head home from the stadium.

I sleep Darsey’s hits off.

I wake and have a few shots of Jack. Why not? I’m an adult and can do what I want.

I sleep longer. Heal.

A new leaf turns over. Change…