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When the performance was over, the party returned to the atrium. The string quartet was replaced with a local DJ, and everyone took to the dance floor. Jordan introduced me to the owners and one of the players from the MLS team FC Dallas, who was on loan to our team for the opening season. Levi Branson was only eighteen years old and already one of the best up-and-coming players in the MLS. It was crazy to think I’d be able to watch him from home all season.
“Hard to believe the whole team rests on one eighteen-year-old,” Jordan said as we stepped away.
“Agreed. Pretty wild.”
“Ah, there they are.”
I looked in the direction he pointed and saw Julian and the unmistakably related Weston Wright. Jordan and Julian were my cousins on their mom’s side, but their half-brother wasn’
