My Team Cut Me on Stage for a Younger Star, So I Took Last Place to the Final novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Loud Boots
I wrote back, "I always do," and put the phone face down on the pool deck.
On Sunday the arena in Long Beach was black and gold from the floor to the roof.
Moberly sat in the front row, right behind the Crown bench, with his jacket buttoned.
Toni did the pre-show at the end of the floor, then walked out past us without looking.
Trey sat down in the middle of Crown's row with the 7 on his back and didn't look either.
I took Mac's ears and closed my eyes.
Crown had put in new plays since August.
But the players were the same five people, and I'd played next to three of them for years and taught the fourth.
Their anchor still dragged his shield up the stairs when he was carrying it to B.
It made a long scrape.
At one round to two, I called my first timeout.
"Their anchor's shield scrapes on the B stairs," I said. "When you hear it, it's five on B."
The next round, the scrape came up the stairs, and the Texan was already standing at the top of them.
Mac killed two from the balcony, and the Texan held the rest.
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