Playing Hard to Get by Monica Murphy EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Monica Murphy
- Genre: Coming of Age Fiction, New Adult & College Romance
- Publish Date: December 1, 2022
- Size: 1 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
JOANNA
ATHLETES. They kind of…scare me.
Specifically football players.
There are plenty of reasons why they freak me out. First up is their sheer size.
These guys are huge. Massive. Most of them are freakishly tall and
overwhelmingly bulky, and when you first see them, they’re intimidating.
Second, they’re just so dang loud. They enter a building, a room, the quad,
the football field (well, that’s a given), and everyone notices them. Not only
because of who they are, but they deliberately make a scene, like they want
the attention. They talk, they yell, they cause a commotion everywhere they
go and everyone looks upon them with awe.
And the football players revel in it.
Finally, most of them are extremely good looking. Even if they’re not
attractive in the traditional sense with a handsome, symmetrical face, the
majority of them have a raw magnetism that draws people in—specifically
women. There’s always a crowd around them, mostly female, though the
guys on campus idolize them as well. No matter where they go, they’re
surrounded. Even mobbed sometimes. It’s wild.
I don’t get it.
I attend Colorado University and our college football team is made up of the
most popular guys on campus. The Golden Eagles are loved. They are
revered. When the fall semester starts, they’re all anyone talks about: every
single conversation, everywhere you turn. The day after their games, where
they almost always win?
It’s a nonstop analysis of their every move through all four quarters, right
down to the final seconds.
All I can ever think is how exhausting it must be, to have so much sitting on
their shoulders. They are responsible for the overhyped school spirit on this
campus, and when they—heaven forbid—lose, it’s like the end of the world
is coming.
No joke.
“Did you watch this weekend’s game?”
I barely look up as the customer asks the question that’s on everyone’s
tongue this Monday. I work at the campus bookstore, and while I love my
job, I don’t love these types of questions.
Being truthful gets me attention I don’t want. Because I don’t watch the
game. I never watch the game.
I don’t care about sports.
And I really don’t like football.
Can’t let that get out, though. I’ll get my college admission revoked, despite
the fact that I’ve been here two years already and am starting my junior year.
I don’t understand the adulation, the way these guys are treated like gods on
campus when all they do is throw a football on the field.
I honestly don’t get it.
“I did watch,” I finally answer, lying through my teeth.
“It was a good one, huh.” He says it as a statement, not a question. He flat out
assumes that I watched it and loved every minute of it. Because…who
wouldn’t? How could a member of the student body not spend their Saturday
watching the game?
Glancing up at the guy, I immediately note that he’s decent looking, which
is…interesting. I haven’t really noticed a guy’s looks in a while.
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