The Blind Date by Landish, Lauren (suggested reading .txt) 📕

a kids’ football practice tonight. Coach asked me to come back and help again.”

I don’t think I could’ve surprised him more if I’d said I found a goose laying golden eggs and a giant beanstalk in town. “How the fuck did that happen?”

I relate the story of seeing the boys getting after Cooper and finish with Mike asking me to help.

Brody rubs at his bottom lip with his thumb, humming to himself. “You’re thinking about doing it.”

It’s not a question. I see a lot, am observant to a fault, but Brody knows us all better than we know ourselves. He knows that football was always mine, my way of dealing with anything and everything. “You’d be good at it,” he adds.

It’s a rousing stamp of approval from my stoic brother. He might as well be waving pom-poms around and cheering like some shit-bad cheerleader.

“I’m thinking about it,” I concede. It’s all I can give for now. Changing the subject, I tease out how much trouble I’m in. “What was Shay’s big news, and how mad is she that I didn’t show?”

Brody takes his hat off, rolling the brim in his hands and sighing. “Another trip. Fuck, you know I love our sister dearly, would kill for her, but I really don’t need to hear about every single pin she’s sticking on her map. It’s not even a big one! They’re going to south Texas, for fuck’s sake. As for you, she’ll make you pay. No mistaking that.”

He’s right, but I don’t mind. Tonight was interesting and different, and I can take Shay’s punishment with one hand tied behind my back.

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