Chasing Chase London by Selena EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Selena
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Friday night rolls around, the last football game of the year. Some of the
girls scoot over and make room for me at the game, and Greg starts talking
to me. I’m a regular fixture at games and practices, and I don’t feel out of
place most of the time.
“You going to the party?” Greg asks during a timeout.
“I guess. I kind of have to, right?”
“Damn straight you have to,” he says, dropping his arm around my
shoulders. “You’re the only person I want there.”
I try not to show how pleased that makes me. I really like Greg—
besides Chase and Todd, he’s my favorite guy in their group. He’s funny
and so easy to talk to that I actually feel like I can halfway be myself
around him. Which is both a blessing and a curse, since my position in the
group is a result of me not being myself. If they knew I was a nerdy little
outcast, would they still like me?
Greg probably would, but I’m not so sure about the others. He’s
always laughing, but when he laughs at me for making some dorky
comment, I don’t feel self-conscious or terrified that he’s going to tell the
others and get me booted from their circle. I just feel like he’s treating me
the same as anyone else or even himself. He’s doesn’t take anything too
seriously.
At the games, he’s one of the rabid fans who paint their faces and
scream the whole game. It’s a little too cold for the bare chests now, but
earlier in the year, he’d paint his whole torso navy and white with some
other guys, spelling out FHS or GO CATS or FAULKNER, depending on
how many guys he ropes into participating.
Now I huddle into his puffy jacket sleeve and shiver my way
through the game. Arkansas is nowhere near as cold as Connecticut this
time of year, of course, but I didn’t account for the humidity that makes it
chillier than the temperature when I was getting ready for the last game of
the year.
I watch the match, amazed once more at how incredible Chase
looks, how incredible he plays, how incredible he is.
In some strange way, I feel proud of him, which is stupid. It’s not
like I created him. It’s not like he’s playing for me. Looking around, though,
I realize everyone feels like that about him, that in a way he doesn’t even
belong to himself. He belongs to all of us, to the whole town.
Everyone from the students with painted faces to the fangirls who
scream loudest for his name being announced in the lineup to the bearded
guys in baseball caps with wives wrapped in blankets next to them and little
kids dropping popcorn between the bleachers feels it. They all look at
Chase with that mixture of pride and entitlement, as if to say, You owe us
this.
You play for us.
If it weren’t for us, you wouldn’t be here.
Make us proud, son.
We’re counting on you.
You’re our hero.
Our quarterback.
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