Chapter 4

After the three-on-three match something seems to change between them – him and Hicks – and Allen doesn't know exactly

why

or

when

or even quite

how

but he winds up looking forward to seeing Hicks's face when he barrels into practice each day.

"You two seem to get along quite well these days," Gavin observes one afternoon not long after their first practice match as the pair of them squeak the floor clean.

"It's nice not to see you bickering all the time.

For a while there Jerry and I thought you might never stop."

"I don't know what…