he wound his way to the locker room and stumbled upon several of the guys playing two-touch. A pang of longing hit Nico low in the gut. Last year, Lucas might have eased Nico into the group and acted as a buffer. Even when they used to play together in tournaments as kids, they joked that Lucas was a Nico-to-human translator. Maybe if Nico had been a better player or if he hadn’t missed so much of last season with a broken arm, he would remember how to fit in with the rest of the team. Now the idea of joining in seemed impossibly awkward. He should move on, but curiosity got the better of him.
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