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Even Luca.

Coach was in his office.

The silence was loud.

My phone was in my hand now.

Finally.

Rowan had replied.

Rowan:

NYC is apparently the universal stress location.

I leaned back against the bleachers.

Yeah.

That sounded about right.

Mason:

You find out about internships yet?

Typing bubbles.

Stopped.

Long pause.

Rowan:

Not yet.

That shouldn’t have mattered.

But it did.

Because I knew what came with “not yet.”

Uncertainty.

Waiting.

Pressure.

Just like me.

ROWAN

I stared at my screen longer than I meant to.

Mason didn’t usually ask about things like that.

Not directly.

It felt… intentional.