Brian Gym class was proving to be a great distraction, offering Brian the chance to burn off some steam with a friendly game of basketball with most of his teammates. Even having Coach, Henry, whatever, around wandering on the sidelines instructing them and pushing them but avoiding eye contact, wasn’t enough to pull Brian out of the serenity that getting lost in the physical exertion of a sport could do for him. But something that was enough to pull him out of his zone and chaff his ass at the same time was the floppy haired bastard that couldn’t handle a basketball to save his life. Usually he didn’t mind Felix, their resident nerd who avoided any sports like leprosy. But it seemed like Felix had already used all his sick note dismissals from gym and they weren’t even a month into the

