Everything he’d ever dreaded, everything he’d feared, had arrived at sunrise on a Friday morning, on the biggest game day of his career. Well, not his career anymore. Not after this. He pitched sideways, falling into Justin’s lap as he screamed again, as his tears started to fall. Justin wrapped his arms around Wes and held him as his heart shattered, and the tattered pieces of his soul ripped fully apart, and the crushing weight of failure rolled over him like a wave, sweeping him out to sea.
