Rowan:
You’re acting like you didn’t already know you were getting in.
Three dots.
Stopped.
Started again.
Mason:
Coach posted the list after practice.
Mason:
It’s real now.
Something about that wording hit differently.
Real now.
Like before it wasn’t.
Likenow it had weight.
MASON
Coach didn’t say congratulations.
He just nodded at me after practice.
That was it.
No praise.
No speech.
Just:
“You made it. Now don’t get comfortable.”
I respected that more than anything else he could’ve said.
Still didn’t make my brain quiet.
Luca leaned against the wall while I packed my bag.
“You’re thinking about her,” he said.
“I’m thinking about NYC.”
“Same thing now?”
I didn’t answer.
Because that was the problem.
It was starting to feel like it.
