Framed by My Captain, Reborn on My Rival's Team novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Two Kings, One Couch
The parade ran down Moonlake Road on an open-top bus with a grey bird painted on both sides.
Forty thousand people had come.
They hung out of the brick windows and sat on the roofs.
They held up phone screens with Lu's face on them and the word LANTERN in gold.
Su Ran stood on the roof of the bus in a pudding costume, throwing candy.
"I'm going to be sick!" he shouted happily.
"Not on the trophy," said Coach Pei.
Lu sat on the back rail with the trophy across his knees.
Ji sat beside him, in a clean grey jersey, with a hand resting casually on the rail between them.
Lu covered it with his own.
The crowd saw.
There was a short, startled roar.
Every phone in the street swung toward the two of them, and Ji did not take his hand away.
"They're filming," Lu said.
"I know."
"You hate being filmed."
"I'm learning."
The bus slowed in front of the glass front across the street from Nightjar.
It stood dark and empty, three stories of shining panes.
A white sign hung over the door, in black letters, FOR SALE.
On the shelf behind the glass, three Vanguard trophies stood in a row, gathering dust.
Lu looked at them for a long moment.
"Good riddance," he said, and found that he meant it, and that it didn't weigh anything.
Ji's thumb moved once over the back of his hand.
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