Page 53 of The Backup Plan

Hayden

Of course I went back out.

Cameron

Your face was eighty feet wide on that screen. Everyone saw you looked about ready to bite through your lip. You didn’t even get it wrapped. Were you TRYING to break it?

Hayden

I was trying to rally my team after you scored on us. My backup is shit, or didn’t you notice when you ran up the score in the fourth?

Cameron

You guys have had some fourth quarter rallies, and you could have come back out with a Terminator arm for all I knew.

Cory

Okay, we don’t talk game head-to-head, guys.

Ethan

Cool it, both of you.

Cameron

I was concerned for you, Hammy. I really was.

Hayden

Maybe you shouldn’t have sent your goons back on me.

Cameron

We were playing the game. Every hit that took you down last night was clean. And nobody softens up because you’re hurt. That’s why you sit out a drive, get wrapped up, and get checked.

Hayden

My trainers said I could play. I’ll take their word over yours.

Cameron

Did they tell you to get out of the locker room once they talked you down there? Did you listen to them then?

Ethan

What are you talking about, Cam?

Cameron

He went down and stayed down. For all his shit about rallying the guys, he didn’t come back to the sideline with them.

Cory

Is it broken?

Hayden

No.