He’d done both already in each game he had played. “Sure thing, Coach, but I dunno the plays. What do I have to do?”“Okay, this is what you go...nna do...” Coach Van Cleave then called a timeout and had the quarterback come to the sidelines for a meeting.Tim, along with the JV quarterback, jogged into the offensive huddle. The starting tight end sped back to the sidelines to announce, “Okay, fellas. Coach had himself an idea.”Coach Van Cleave knew Tim did not know the plays yet, so he told him. She was almost to her mark.Another handful of footsteps later, and Eloise arrived with her feet planted at the masked-off ‘X’ denoting the blocking where she should stand to start her rendition of the tryout routine. While she stood there, she could feel the eyes of the five-deep row of cheer elites boring their eyes directly into her. They said nothing. They just stared. She watched one of them bite down onto the tip of their pen. Whispers were exchanged into the ears of juxtaposing panelists. The light was perfect and it was lovely and warm, I am taking a photo of a great looking face with my long lens that I can see in the grand old beach tree where a branch had broken in the recent winds when I notice something white near ground level. I zoom in a bit closer and see what looks like the back of a person sat there on one of the fallen tree trunks. That’s odd I thought to myself as this is the first person that I have seen on my walk today although, to be fair, I have rarely, if at. But he...he's not interested in me anymore.” “What a pig,” Alice muttered. “We were out at dinner, last night and...” Tears threatened to overwhelm me again. “He said getting married may have been a bad idea. I thought he meant he wanted to delay it. I'm mean its a month away, and he has to deal with his dad dieing and all that crap that goes along with it. I was fine with it but...” I'm sorry, Mary. I just...I just don't find you pretty. The words still felt like a punch in the stomach. “He.