normal thing in the world, before Penny goes back to her dad, stands alongside him and flashes looks in my direction until the game is out.
We watch as the bears close in on our end zone quickly, before they are held at the fifteen yard line until the clock runs down. We’ve lost another game, but won so much on the way, and I’ve proved, in less than twenty seconds, that given the opportunity, I can do just about anything any one of these other players can do too.
I feel like I’m on top of the world.
Six.
P enny
It’s happening again. That fucking ass-hole is cheating on me. I can’t believe he’s stupid enough, insensitive enough, courageous enough to do what I always thought he had the potential to do again and fuck someone behind my back. Two people actually. It’s like I don’t even exist, and I really don’t need this right now either.
Moxlin are getting fined for the bullshit that Jasper and the rest of the team got up to after the first game of the season, and it’s not an insubstantial amount either. Jasper and Topher’s docked wages for the month won’t even come close to covering it, which means Dad and I have got to figure out a way of coming up with the shortfall, which will probably mean, in turn, that dad has to remortgage the house again. It’s fucked up and I’m super pissed at both of them for being stupid enough to let a whole town film them. It’s not just the CCTV footage either, there are eyewitnesses with phone camera footage, children crying, fans cheering them on, it’s all over facebook, twitter, the Moxlin Tiger’s unofficial forum. It’s a complete and total fuck up, to which Dad has already had to file an apology, Jasper and Topher have issued a grovelling sorry and a meeting with the committee board has been posted for as far away as they’d let me.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Tate is going to be out until at least Christmas with his knee, Sparks has concussion, Jackson hobbled out of training today, Jasper’s walking round like a God after his miracle touchdown pass, and Topher, my fucking douchebag boyfriend of three fucking years is cheating on me. Twice. Two girls. Two at once. It makes me want to scream not just at him for doing it, but for me for being so pathetic I let it happen by giving him another chance. Well I’m not going to give him a chance now. I’m going to have a drink and then I’m going to tell him exactly where to get off. Trust Jasper to spot that I’m not wearing my engagement ring - Topher didn’t.
“You should have told me.”
Jasper holds his hands up, before curling them protectively back around his pint.
“I’m sorry, Pen. I didn’t want to hurt you.”
I’m here with him because I want to know the truth. I want to know why they both lied to me. Topher will get his later, right now it’s Jasper’s turn.
“Are you fucking serious?”
“What was I meant to do? I didn’t want to fuck up the Tiger’s by giving you shit to deal with. I was thinking about you.”
“Were you thinking about me the night it happened?”
I’m upset now, and I can feel tears coming even though I don’t want them to. I have to sit on my hands to stop Jasper seeing them shake. He reaches out to touch my arm and I don’t tell him to take his hand away.
“I didn’t know until after it happened, seriously. I mean, I saw him chatting to the girls, fooling around, laughing, but I didn’t see him with them like that. Maybe it’s for the best, you know, you don’t deserve to be treated like that.”
I shake my head. I still can’t believe it’s happened, yet it happening is exactly where I knew at the back of my mind and the bottom of my heart we’d end up again.
“You should have told me.”
“Believe it or not, I was thinking about doing so.”
“You’re a coward just like everyone else.”
“I care about you, Penny.”
“Bullshit. You just care about Jasper Stone.”
“Come on, you know that’s not true. I know you’re
We watch as the bears close in on our end zone quickly, before they are held at the fifteen yard line until the clock runs down. We’ve lost another game, but won so much on the way, and I’ve proved, in less than twenty seconds, that given the opportunity, I can do just about anything any one of these other players can do too.
I feel like I’m on top of the world.
Six.
P enny
It’s happening again. That fucking ass-hole is cheating on me. I can’t believe he’s stupid enough, insensitive enough, courageous enough to do what I always thought he had the potential to do again and fuck someone behind my back. Two people actually. It’s like I don’t even exist, and I really don’t need this right now either.
Moxlin are getting fined for the bullshit that Jasper and the rest of the team got up to after the first game of the season, and it’s not an insubstantial amount either. Jasper and Topher’s docked wages for the month won’t even come close to covering it, which means Dad and I have got to figure out a way of coming up with the shortfall, which will probably mean, in turn, that dad has to remortgage the house again. It’s fucked up and I’m super pissed at both of them for being stupid enough to let a whole town film them. It’s not just the CCTV footage either, there are eyewitnesses with phone camera footage, children crying, fans cheering them on, it’s all over facebook, twitter, the Moxlin Tiger’s unofficial forum. It’s a complete and total fuck up, to which Dad has already had to file an apology, Jasper and Topher have issued a grovelling sorry and a meeting with the committee board has been posted for as far away as they’d let me.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Tate is going to be out until at least Christmas with his knee, Sparks has concussion, Jackson hobbled out of training today, Jasper’s walking round like a God after his miracle touchdown pass, and Topher, my fucking douchebag boyfriend of three fucking years is cheating on me. Twice. Two girls. Two at once. It makes me want to scream not just at him for doing it, but for me for being so pathetic I let it happen by giving him another chance. Well I’m not going to give him a chance now. I’m going to have a drink and then I’m going to tell him exactly where to get off. Trust Jasper to spot that I’m not wearing my engagement ring - Topher didn’t.
“You should have told me.”
Jasper holds his hands up, before curling them protectively back around his pint.
“I’m sorry, Pen. I didn’t want to hurt you.”
I’m here with him because I want to know the truth. I want to know why they both lied to me. Topher will get his later, right now it’s Jasper’s turn.
“Are you fucking serious?”
“What was I meant to do? I didn’t want to fuck up the Tiger’s by giving you shit to deal with. I was thinking about you.”
“Were you thinking about me the night it happened?”
I’m upset now, and I can feel tears coming even though I don’t want them to. I have to sit on my hands to stop Jasper seeing them shake. He reaches out to touch my arm and I don’t tell him to take his hand away.
“I didn’t know until after it happened, seriously. I mean, I saw him chatting to the girls, fooling around, laughing, but I didn’t see him with them like that. Maybe it’s for the best, you know, you don’t deserve to be treated like that.”
I shake my head. I still can’t believe it’s happened, yet it happening is exactly where I knew at the back of my mind and the bottom of my heart we’d end up again.
“You should have told me.”
“Believe it or not, I was thinking about doing so.”
“You’re a coward just like everyone else.”
“I care about you, Penny.”
“Bullshit. You just care about Jasper Stone.”
“Come on, you know that’s not true. I know you’re
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