Keira
The arena was packed tighter than I'd ever seen it, every seat filled, standing room sold out within hours of the match being announced, cameras stationed at angles I hadn't noticed at any regular season game. This wasn't sports coverage anymore. This was a spectacle, and everyone in the building knew exactly why they'd really come.
I sat in the family section between my mother and Dani, both of them flanking me like bodyguards, though nothing about the seating arrangement stopped the murmurs rippling through the crowd every time someone recognized me. My mother had insisted on coming after the café incident, refusing to let me sit through this alone, and something about her steady presence beside me made the whole overwhelming scene feel slightly more bearable.
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