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But it was honest.
My phone buzzed during water break.
Rowan.
Rowan:
I think they’re waiting for us to slip.
I stared at that.
Then replied:
Mason:
Yeah.
Mason:
I think so too.
ROWAN
Serena took my phone and read the last message.
“Wow,” she said.
“Give it back.”
“You’re both spiraling quietly,” she added.
“I’m not spiraling.”
“You are just doing it in parallel.”
Thatmade me pause.
Parallel.
That word stuck.
Because it wasn’t just emotion anymore.
It was alignment under pressure.
My phone buzzed again.
Mason.
Mason:
This doesn’t feel like basketball anymore.
I stared at that longer than I meant to.
Because I agreed.
MASON
