Offside Hearts: Crossing the line

nt after Vanessa shared her plan

practice. Chloe's in for a bi

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RIDGE

ton Hawks and Westbridge Wolves. Students were bu

illed with students from both

Hawks stepped out in their jerseys, KINGSTON HAWKS and the

dium and filled the section rese

of the Westbridge Wolves yet. With the match about t

gh she wasn't performing with them. She barely

fill my water bottle at school. Le

y, handing over her own

taking the bo

y idea where she was going. Spotting a student walking

ht direction, "Fourth floor, take a right turn, then head strai

replied, heading

shed past her, leaving a strong trace of cologne behin

she muttered, scrunchi

oe finally found the refill s

about it felt off, she felt like she was in the wrong o

d, Chloe realized she wasn

o different elevators?" sh

ere unfamiliar. Hoping it might lead her b

, a familiar voice

and froze. Ethan and another guy st

jersey and muttered, "So that is the ca

the reason she is dead!" Ethan

ous, "Stop putting that on me!

is Claire?" C

t to you, and you were nowhere to be found. She died because of

't know anything!

at night! Where did you go? What

fists clenching hard, "Tha

ou over me a hundred times out of a hundred! Do you know how that felt? I found her first Ronnie Ca

with Ethan's jaw, when the sound of a dro

roze in

d mid-air as they bo

roat and bent to p

people's conversations?" Ron

ight in public?"

le annoy me," h

espond, his voice softening, "C

th of them, then walked

hloe snapped, "None

esterday, I didn't mean for it to happen like that," Ethan said

the hallway, heard every word bef

und either, she hurrie

another Westbridge player and

, the goalkeeper, greeted

o get bac

e a pretty face wandering around lost,"

ed you to po

king a different route back toward the stadium. By the time sh

at, but Tessa wasn't there.

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ams lined up at their positions. The stadium roar

prickle at the back of her neck. She turned and caught

away, lifting her pom-poms and ch

first half ended scoreless w

Kingston's end as Westbridge

ainst hope her school would come

d both teams stepped off the fiel

om the sideline, a slow smi

ey had barely gone far into the second half when Ronn

the stadium erupted, ch

Kingston from equalizing, but luck wasn't on Ki

heers thundered t

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heavily. He checked the clock and they had

for the ball, dribbled past two defenders, and passed

th Westbridge's defense caught out of p

loded with cheers n

tbridge came out on top. Ethan exh

eady to

o

Without waiting for his teammates, he stormed off the fie

were really the pr

ing Kingston Hawks walk off t

sometimes, some days you w

once students not caught up in the celebration pul

, sent by an anonymous account with the caption, "Ronnie Calloway blame

in rage as he scanne

when Sinker, a substitute, ran up holding o

potting Ethan closing in fast on them, Ronnie

Without hesitation, Ethan swung again, this one landing

rupted in a c

er of his mouth, his eyes flashed with rage

as hap