There was something very wrong with me. Running around for twenty minutes in the pouring rain for a shoe was a good indication that this girl was making me lose my mind. The minute I saw Shannon darting around the P.E. hall, a monstrous swell of protectiveness surged up inside of my body at the sight of her trying to protect herself from being trampled on, and I knew that my problem was bigger than I had realized. I’d had the craziest urge to stalk onto the court and tell her classmates to back the fuck off from her.
