Okay you guys, here's another chapter. I don't know if the ending will surprise you or not…


It was pretty hard to fall asleep after that. I kept seeing Sabrina's face swimming in front of me, screaming. And I kept seeing that look in Brady's eyes before he'd climbed out the window. What had it meant?

But I was so tired I finally managed to fall asleep, though my dreams were filled with a witch who looked like Sabrina and a prince who looked like Brady. I have no idea where that last part came from. Really, I don't. That's the truth, I swear.

~XXX~

Thursday and Friday morning went by completely uneventful. And I, for one, was extremely relieved by this. I saw both Brady and Sabrina, but never together. Sabrina seemed completely normal, which is basically really evil, and Brady… well, he didn't look super upset, but he wasn't his normal goofy self either. But every time I bumped into hi in the halls, he flashed me a smile, which I took as a good sign, though it also kind of confused me. But I decided not to think too hard on it. I didn't need anything else on my mind.

On Friday afternoon I was siting on the bench in front of my house, reading a King Arthur book. I'm kind of a King Arthur/Robin Hood dork. I LOVE those old stories. My mom use to be totally CRAZY about them, she knew everything you could possibly know about anything relating to the subjects, and she'd use to read the stories to me every night, Brady too, when he'd slept over. I remember when I was really small, we'd use to pretend we were the Knights of the Round Table, Brady and me. Boomer and Boz had played it with us too. Sometimes they'd made me play Guinevere or the Lady of the Lake, but most of the time I'd been a knight with them. Brady's said I'd be good at is as any boy. That had always made me smile. My mom had also told us stories about the Order of the Bear, an organization who believed King Arthur would one day be reincarnated, and me and the boys had use to talk about how much we wanted to be those reincarnations. We said Brady would be Arthur, Boomer and Boz would be knights, and I'd be the Lady of the Lake. Yeah, we use to ALL be dorks.

"What are you reading?"

I looked up and saw Brady standing in front of me, gesturing at the book in my hands.

"A King Arthur book," I said.

He grinned. "Oh yeah! I remember your mom reading us that stuff! We use to play that we were knights, remember?" He sat down next to me.

"Yeah, I do," I said. "Those were the good old days."

"Yeah," he said, still smiling. "Remember the time Boomer smacked you in the nose with a play sword and almost broke it? Didn't you have to go to the ER?"

"Oh my gosh, yes!" I exclaimed, laughing. "That was horrible!"
He nodded, still grinning broadly. "I miss those days."

"Yeah," I said softly. "Me too."

"I'm sorry things turned out like this, Kay," he said softly, looking down at his hands again. "I didn't mean for it to be this way."

"I know," I said. "It's okay."

We were both quiet until finally he said, "so…. is the book good?"

I nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah! I really like it!"

He started to say something else, but just then a sleek black Lexus pulled up to the curb, the passenger seat window rolled down. It was Sabrina.

"Brady!" She called. "Get in the car!"

He sighed heavily. "I gotta go. See you, Kay." He stood up and swung the door open, then slid in.

Sabrina leaned over and shut the passenger seat door, her eyes on me. There was something almost threatening in her gaze, like she was telling me to back off or else.

Uh-oh. That is not good.

~XXX~

"I don't know why we even had to come," Tessa said, shrinking a little as a group of giggling freshmen passed us. "Couldn't we have done a movie night instead?"

"No!" Candis said emphatically. "Everyone goes to high school football games."

"Since when are we everyone? We're the dorks, remember?" Tessa reminded her.

Candis shook her head. "It's about supporting our school team, it doesn't have anything to do with popularity."

I looked down at the field were Brady stood with his brothers and teammates, wearing his football uniform. I wasn't here for either, the team or popularity. I was here for him.

"I just don't like this, Candis. You know I hate crowds. Please can we go home?" Tessa looked close to tears now.
"Can you please stop it, Tessa?" Candis snapped, looking little angry now. "Do you hear Kay complaining?"

"Leave me out of it!" I said quickly. Getting in the middle of my friends' little fight was the last thing I needed.

They both looked at me, then went back to bickering. but I was no longer listening. Instead I watched Brady down on the field, his helmet off, talking to Sabrina, who looked adorable in her purple-and-silver cheerleading outfit. I couldn't see her face, but he didn't look unhappy, which was really good. Not that he looked too happy either.

Candis and Tessa's arguing had made us move us the stands a lot slower, so by the time the game was about to start, the bleachers were practically all filled up. So we had to hurry to get seats. We spotted a few past where a group of girls were sitting, and started pushing past them to get over there.

"Hey Kay." It was Rebecca Dawson, Boomer's girlfriend, sitting right there, smiling up at me. Rebecca was actually really nice, and one of the only popular girls who wasn't a cheerleader. Probably the only one. But she'd never talked to me before, how did she know my name?

"Hi Rebecca…" I said tentatively.

She could probably guess what I was thinking, because her smile widened and she said, "Brady told me about you, when I was over there last."

I'm not gonna lie, that shocked me. Brady had told his brother's girlfriend about me? "Okay," I managed to get out.

We continued on to our seats and sat down its as the game started.

I don't really know much about football, but I could tell that our team, the Warriors, was doing really well, even from the very beginning. I could also tell that Brady was definitely playing the best out of everyone. And I'm not really into sports, but the excitement the game caused was pretty catching, and I was really happy about how well Brady was playing, so I was cheering at every touchdown.

It was actually a really close game, in fact, we were tied at only ten seconds left on the clock and Brady had the ball. He was holding it close, racing towards the end zone. All the Westview cheerleaders were screaming, "GO BRADY!" while the rest of us watching on tenterhooks, silently praying, hoping, that he'd make it.

He go there just in time, stepping over the line just as the time ran out.

"WESTVIEW WINS!" The announcer's voice bellowed, and the crowd went wild, jumping to their feet and screaming his name. I could see the team lifting him onto their shoulders, chanting, "Brady! Brady! Brady!"

I was screaming along with everyone else, until something down on the edge of the field caught my eye. It was Sabrina, standing there with one of the football players, obviously flirting with him. My mouth practically fell open. What was she doing?

At that exact moment, Brady broke free from his fellow players and ran over to her, beaming, until he saw Sabrina flirting with one of his teammates. He stopped dead, his eyes wide with shock and horror.


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