We just stood there for a second after that. Neither of us said anything.
The hallway had gone quiet, most of the crowd already through the tunnel and out toward the parking lot, just the two of us and the distant sound of somebody's speaker still playing music down by the locker room.
"I should probably go get checked out again," Rhys said. "The trainer wants a second look before I leave."
"Probably a good idea." I said
"Yeah." He didn't move.
"You're not moving." I said
"I know."
I laughed a little, and he laughed too, and for a second we just stood there laughing at nothing, at the fact that neither of us was doing the thing we said we should be doing.
"Today was a lot," he said.
"Yeah."
"The hit, the scout, all of it. And then I go and say the most embarrassing thing I've ev
