Page 76 of The Backup Plan

Cameron

As soon as it opens up in December, I’m hitting the transfer portal and landing wherever I land.

Ethan

You most certainly are not.

Cameron

I am not supposed to be at this school. I told you, I came here for the wrong reasons.

Ethan

You can’t quit on your team like that. They already lost Jordan. This is a bad night at a party, and you’re half drunk.

Cameron

I was running scared from chasing a dream. I can’t be scared of anything anymore.

Cory

But your team is your team now, however you landed there. Some things will always be scary, and we grow up and work through them.

Ethan

How does anything about tonight add up to quitting? You don’t just pack up and walk back to UT and start over.

Cameron

There was a bee tonight. A big fluffy bumble, right on the sidewalk.

Ethan

There was a bee.

So you’re leaving.

When you put it that way, it makes perfect sense.

Cameron

He was so cold and barely moving. Bees aren’t supposed to be out in the middle of the night. They’re not supposed to be out at all this time of year. I bet he was scared.

I made him a little house.

Ethan

You are dangerously, maybe fatally allergic, and you made a house for a bee on the sidewalk. What did you drink?

Cameron

He doesn’t belong out here, and neither do I. He was lost, and so am I.

And I petted him.

There are a million guys who can throw a football. Let them throw it here.

Cory