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up. “But all the boosters are taken. We’re gonna need someone to double up.”
    Every starter on the team is assigned their own booster. Basically the girl (or guy) decorates your locker for you, makes you a big basket of food the day before the game, and does other random cool stuff throughout the season.
    “Does anyone want to be Orion’s booster?” Claudia called out.
    “I’ll do it!”
    The girl from that morning—the one who had stolen Claudia’s scarf out of her bag at lunch on the first day of school—stood up from a seat on the bleachers. I hadn’t even seen her sitting there until now.
    “You’re not even on the boosters,” Claudia said, her face falling.
    The girl clomped down the stairs and then walked up the hill and over to us. Her long dark hair streamed out behind her in the wind, and she had the most unbelievable blue eyes I’d ever seen. She was gorgeous, not that I’d ever admit that out loud. When it came to boosters, Orion could do worse. Maybe he’d even just landed himself the new girlfriend he was obviously looking for. At least he had two more years of high school to be with her. Lucky bastard.
    “So? Sign me up,” the girl said, looking directly at Orion. “I’m in.”
    Claudia sighed and turned to Orion. “Are you okay with . . . what’s your name again?” she asked the girl.
    “True,” she and Orion said at the same time.
    Claudia and I locked eyes, both surprised he already knew her name.
    “True Olympia,” True said with deep meaning, as if that was supposed to be significant to Orion somehow.
    “With True?” Claudia finished.
    “Sure.” Orion shrugged.
    “Okay. Go see Wallace over there,” Claudia gestured toward the one dude in the group, who scrambled to his feet with his iPad. He was wearing a black T-shirt and checkerboard shorts with a chain connected to the wallet in his pocket and had dark floppy bangs like mine. He lifted one scrawny arm and waved. There was ink up and down his forearm, but it looked like a doodle, not a tattoo. “He keeps the booster lists and attendance and everything.”
    “Got it.” True made her way over to Wallace, tripping over a paint can and half crumbling a sign. It seemed like she couldn’t take her eyes off Orion, and she was plowing everything over to do it.
    “You ready to go grab dinner?” I asked Claudia. “Me and a couple of the guys are going to Pizza City.”
    She checked her watch. “Crap. How’d it get so late?” Dropping to the grass, she shoved her phone and a notebook into her bag, then stood. “Lauren, can you hang out for a while and make sure everything gets put away?”
    “No problem, Skipper,” Lauren said, saluting.
    Claudia rolled her eyes, but laughed.
    “I’ll see you at the Studio.”
    “Hey, guys, before you go, can I get a shot of the senior class couple?” Greg asked, wielding his camera.
    Claudia and I grinned, both of us loving being called the class couple. Like I said, nothing was too cheesy. “Sure,” I told him.
    We turned toward each other and hugged, smiling for the camera. Greg reeled off about half a dozen shots, then gave us a thumbs-up.
    “Thanks.” He checked something on the screen and then moved off to photograph the cheerleaders.
    “No problem!” I shouted. “Hey, Orion! You coming for pizza?”
    His eyebrows rose. “Yeah? Cool.”
    “Gavin! Let’s go!” I shouted, raising an arm to wave him down.
    He said good-bye to Tara and jogged over to join us. I slipped my arm around Claudia as we made our way down the hill, Orion and Gavin in front of us. There was still an annoying pinch in my chest from my conversation with the guys, but I tried to ignore it.
    “I’m so nervous!” Claudia said, raising her tiny shoulders as we walked.
    “About what?”
    “Tonight’s the night!” She skipped once. So frickin’ cute. “I’m gonna find out if I got the audition!”
    She slipped through the opening in the fence ahead of me, and I paused for a second, my