The car park of the indoor sports centre was filling up fast when we pulled in, which surprised me because next to no one had come to watch any of the games all season but now that the The Crushers had made it to the grand final it seemed that the whole town wanted to throw their support behind the team, there was even a local TV crew from the news filming.
Dad and Bridget had arrived early and managed to reserve a row of seats for all of us. Aunty Celeste sat down next to Dad, Nick on the other side of her, leaving Bridget, Kate and me to fill up the end of the row.
At her feet, Bridget had the sign that we had made for Sam, when we went to his first game, it was now tattered around the edges and had a crease through the middle where we had folded it and threw it into the back of my c
