Charlie had never been to a St. Bernard High soccer meet before, but she went because she had to meet up with Kire and the others afterward, and sitting in the bleachers, in the freezing cold, watching the game and the ridiculous cheerleaders doing their inappropriate dance moves in their inappropriately short skirts still seemed like a better plan than having to go home to deal with Lexi annoying her or her parents ignoring her.
Shivering, Charlie scoured the field in search of Kire, the school’s new best player—apparently. It was easy to find him on the field. He was the one with the untidy brown hair flying behind him as he ran. Even though she didn’t know the technical rules behind soccer, she could tell he was doing a decent job playing based on how he was dribbling the soccer ball d
