Touchdown

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Authors: Yael Levy
so much about what everybody thinks, Clay, that you’re a freaking puppet.”
    “Ouch.” Clay laughed. “If you cared, even a bit, what people thought, they wouldn’t hound you for being such a freak.”
    Leigh punched Clay in his arm, hard.
    “Hey!” he yelled, though he continued laughing, “I don’t care that you’re a freak.”
    Leigh mimicked his words in a false, high-pitched tone. “You don’t know how lucky you are to have me as your friend, Clayton Harper.”
    Clay picked up speed. He glanced at his buddy sitting beside him. Bound up in a ponytail holder, her long red hair whipped across her face as they rode, making her look like she was getting smacked in the face by a horse’s tail. Clay laughed.
    Leigh stared at Clay. “What?”
    “Nothing. Just your hair . . . ” Clay laughed again.
    Leigh’s eyes narrowed like a wolf’s. “Oh. So I’m not a blonde nitwit like Miss Carolyn Dampeer, and that’s funny?”
    “Now don’t go calling her names. She’s all right.” Clay turned onto Carolyn’s street in Buckhead, a wide vista of manicured green lawns, giant Georgia pine trees, and gated mansions.
    “Carolyn is all right? She’d complain if Jesus Christ came down and handed her a five dollar bill.” Leigh sighed.
    He laughed and shook his head. “She’s got plenty of good attributes.”
    “Yeah. Two large attributes. Both on her chest.”
    Clay smiled at Leigh as he slowed his car to his girlfriend’s house. “You jealous?”
    Leigh shook her head. “Maybe I don’t have her, um, attributes, but I thank God every day that He gave me a brain.”
    “To tell you the truth, I’m thinking that maybe Carolyn and I aren’t right for each other,” Clay said quietly. “Maybe tonight’s the night to break it off.”
    Leigh responded with silence.
    Clay pulled up into Carolyn’s driveway and jumped out of the Jeep. “Are you coming, Leigh?” he asked.
    Dressed like all of her sorority sisters in a short pale yellow dress that accentuated her shapely tan legs, Carolyn ran over to Clay and jumped into his arms, her long, blonde curls bouncing as she kissed him. “I’m so excited about tonight’s game, Clayton!” she squealed. “You are so going to score!”
    Leigh came up to them, rolling her eyes again. “How is he supposed to win a game if you’re attached to him?”
    Carolyn continued smiling as she waved her hand toward Leigh. “Oh, you brought her along. How nice.”
    Clay sighed. “C’mon, ladies, we’ve got a game to get to,” he said, grabbing Leigh by her elbow and easing her toward the Jeep.
    Carolyn then grabbed Clay’s hand. “Did you bring stuff for after the game?”
    Clay shrugged. “For the party?”
    Carolyn raised her hand. “Just a second.” She went inside and came back out with a shopping bag from Whole Foods.
    Leigh turned her head. “Health food? That’s what you prepared for an after-game party?”
    Carolyn giggled. “Distracted by the packaging. I like it!” She showed Clay and Leigh the contents of her bag: a couple of bottles of hard liquor.
    Leigh stepped back. “I don’t know . . . Maybe that’s not such a good idea . . . ”
    Carolyn batted her long eyelashes at Clay. “Oh, c’mon, it’ll be fun.”
    Leigh stepped between Carolyn and her friend. “Clay. You can’t. You know you can’t hold that stuff. It could stop your heart. Remember what the doctor said last time—”
    Carolyn grabbed her boyfriend’s arm. “Don’t worry, I’ll keep an eye on him.” She let go of Clay and put the bottles in the back seat. “Why don’t you sit next to the bottles to guard them from Clay?”
    Leigh stared at her friend, who nodded that she should sit in the back. Glaring at Carolyn, Leigh did as told. “You have no mind of your own, Clay,” she mumbled under her breath.
    “What was that?” Carolyn asked, as she adjusted her seatbelt across her chest.
    “Nothing, Carolyn,” she said. “Nobody said anything.”

CHAPTER SIX
    “Just

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