The days after Gracie's rooftop party blurred into something new.
For the first time, Carrie and Andrew were exchanging messages outside of chance encounters. He would text her after practice, teasing her about her "serious journalist face," or send a snapshot of his sneakers kicked up on a bench with the caption, dying after drills. She responded more than she told herself she would, her replies clipped and witty, but her phone buzzed more often than it ever had.
They began meeting for coffee between classes, sometimes with friends, sometimes just the two of them. He made her laugh, and she hated how easy it was.
But then came Kara.
Carrie met her one Saturday afternoon when Andrew invited her to join him and "a few friends" at a café near Ateneo. She walked in expecting teammates, ma
