Five
Shane hadn’t set foot in this stadium since his last high school football game—the state championship the Devyn Wolves had won his and Luke’s senior year—and the moment he took a seat on the front-row bench at the fifty-yard line, the memory of that night enveloped him. His friendship with Luke had been in tatters, but they had managed to set aside their problems for the sake of the team and the game, and for those few short hours that night and every Friday night prior for the duration of the season, they had been able to resurrect some of their old harmony. Even with the fresh agony of Mike’s death hanging over them and Luke stepping in as the starting quarterback. Perhaps it was those differences that had helped them find a new cohesiveness on the field.
Too bad it didn’t carry o
