5 An hour later they were all tired, but laughter filled the field. No one could agree on the score, so Jimmy and Ryan called it a tie. Moira decided she could live with that as long as she got away from Kevin. After the first play of the game, when Jimmy landed on top of her, Kevin had taken over guarding her. He taunted her nonstop until she finally stuck out a foot and tripped him. The O’Malleys of course called a penalty on her, not that they used any real rules, but she couldn’t argue. That man had been getting under her skin since the first grade. Every year they were in the same class and he always had the seat behind her. God forbid the teacher do something other than alphabetical order for the seating chart. It started with him tugging her pigtails in the first grade and it had

