The holiday break was agonizingly slow and way too fast at the same time.
Gage drove my car the next day for home, and we left after a late breakfast with Kristina, Casey, Sarah, Shay, and Linde. I asked where Laura was, but Sarah just pressed her lips together and slumped down in a chair on the other side of Casey.
Kristina winced. “That’s a sore subject right now.”
I never did find out what happened, but I got an earful about Cameron Brewski. It was mentioned the night before that he was the opposing team’s quarterback, and I learned that he had also been Shay’s rival for a long time. They’d gone to the same high school, went to different colleges, and dated the same girl.
“Same girl?”
Linde added that last bit, watching Shay with a teasing glint in his eyes.
Shay swore under his b
