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- Authors: Heidi Stark
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Dylan
“It’s your last dayyyyy!”
I groan as a pillow lands on my arm. Opening one eye, I glance at
the clock. It’s two minutes before my alarm usually goes off. Those
precious final two minutes of sleep have been callously ripped away from
me. Somebody clearly has a death wish.
“Two more minutes! Why are you waking me up early?” I open the other
eye to glare at Kat, my roommate, who has apparently dared to wake me.
I’m not sure whether she’s brave or stupid.
“Because I’m going to miss you, and two more minutes of your precious
time seemed like a good idea!” She’s practically bouncing off the walls,
already fully dressed in her practice gear.
“Wow, Kat. What time did you wake up this morning? And how much
caffeine have you had already?”
“I got up at 3 so I could finish my assignment,” she shrugs, her words
spilling out of her mouth a mile a minute. “And I had a couple of double
espressos. Nothing out of the ordinary. Why? Am I acting weird?”
I shake my head and roll my eyes. “Not for you, I suppose. But if you
were anyone else, I’d send you off somewhere to be evaluated.”
Another pillow sails through the air and bops me on the head. Sighing,
and resigned to my fate, I tug off my covers and push myself off the bed.
“I’m not going to miss these spontaneous early wake-up calls, you know!” I
jut out my lower lip and glance at her sideways. “But I sure as hell am
going to miss you.”
The sun’s first rays break over the horizon as I finish lacing up my cleats.
The chill of the morning air snaps at my cheeks like the sting of a rubber
band, but I welcome it as part of my pre-practice ritual. Stepping onto the
pitch, the grass crunches under my feet, still glazed with dew.
I take a deep breath, filling my lungs with the earthy scent of soil and new
growth. It’s my favorite part of the day. I’m an early bird by nature—
provided my alarm gets to go off when it’s scheduled to, and some sick
demon doesn’t rob me of my precious last few minutes. I’m drawn to the
peace this time of day gives me, far before most of the world has even
thought about waking up.
Taking a sip from my thermos, I savor the taste of
freshly brewed coffee. I may be an early bird, but I’m not a monster. I need
caffeine like everyone else, just not as much as my roommate. Nobody
needs that much, including her.
The stands sit empty around me, but I can hear the cheers and the
chanting as if they were packed with fans eager to watch us get dirty. This
field is my second home—the neatly lined white chalk, the precisely
manicured grass. They’re all as familiar to me as my own living room, and
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