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Coach texted once.

Ignored.

Rowan didn’t text again for a while.

Then:

Rowan:

This feels like a setup.

I stared at that.

Because it did.

Not in a dramatic way.

In a structural way.

Like something had been placed in our path on purpose.

I typed:

Mason:

It is.

Pause.

Then added:

Mason:

We just don’t know for what yet.

ROWAN

I lay in bed later staring at the ceiling.

Serena had fallen asleep mid-rant again.

My phone lit up one last time.

Mason.

Mason:

Tomorrow’s going to be worse again.

I staredat it.

Then:

Rowan:

You keep saying that.

Mason: