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Chapter One

Teddy

On the way to my new tutor’s dorm room, I want to punch a hole in the hallall

It’s like this all the tier slithers inside of me like oily snakes I’ve worked myself to the bone on the football field in an atte ever gives There’s a bowling ball sitting ondown, down, so hard that I can’t breathe so that relieves it for even a e counselor calls it

She can call it whatever she wants—it feels good

Rebelling is the only thing that helps melt the resentment lately

On my way past a rooasp

“Is that Teddy Xavier?”

Yeah, it’s ood look

During my first three years of school, I would have waved and flashed the to earn me millions of dollars in endorsement deals one day, when I’ve been drafted to the NFL But now? I give the intutor Iris Stirling She’s going to be s between ame next week If I don’t pass my Western Civilization test, I don’t play I’ picked up by the cops for being drunk and disorderly in public Breaking into a few cars, just because I could Because I needed to distract myself from the pain

So I’ off on aall of her friends that she has Teddy Xavier by the short and curlies As long as she helpsall she wants—I just need to be on the field

Lately, being on the gridiron has been less about football and er when I’m tackled hard But that’s another story