He finds it under a panel of boards, lifts it in the air, and calls, “Hey, June, you wanna frame this?” After a beat of total silence, Junie does the last thing I would expect, and she cracks up. “What’s the story with the soccer ball?” It’s a murmur going through the whole group of ranchers and teachers and residents of Hell’s Bells who have come out to help us today. Junie’s friends too. I’m sure many of them know she wanted to be on the team but that we got here too late and Flint wouldn’t bend the rules. And I’m sure those people who know suspect there’s tension there, and they’d be right.
Wait….
