KYLIE AS KAYDEN Less than an hour later, when all teams had chosen their members, we started to play. Desmond didn't want me to do much so he assigned me a less involved role. "We need to preserve that beauty of yours," he said to me. I shivered as I thought about it. I could still feel Desmond's leers all the way to me, even though I was at the back. "Ugh." Playing basketball with boys was completely different from playing with girls. I mean, I knew this, but I didn’t expect the extreme pushing and knocking out that was going on on the field. So many times I wanted to cry out in pain at a hard push from the side, or a hand from the back, but I swallowed it up and passed the ball as amicably as I could. It was not easy. At the first break, Justin ran to me and swung his arm around m

