away from the sunroom, a knot of disappointment tighte

the one who showed them around, tutored them in classes they struggled with, defende

You' re like a brother to us, Ethan," Chloe had sai

It all seemed like a

hen I was still trying to reason wi

eyes, "if you try to stop us from being with Jake, then maybe... maybe we just give

ely, "We mean it. Thi

, I knew now.

in. Another one of those glitchy DM-style pop-up

on getting Dad [Ethan's father] to pay for Jake's off-season training camp and those premium app

n the hallway. M

him into South Valley. And "Princeton can wait for us if SVS doesn' t pan out"? They saw Princeton

to exploit everything... it hit me hard. They we