"And now number 27, freshly flown in from Helsinki and signed for the rest of the season, Asher Laitinen!"

Emmy stopped moving. It felt as if all the blood in her body was draining away and growing into a block of ice deep inside her. The smile was so cemented to her face that it crumbled very slowly. Her heartbeat pounded in her ears.

Lucy put her hand on her arm. "What's wrong?"

Emmy slowly looked at her friend. "Ash."

"Ash? Meinst du Asher Laitinen?"

Emmy had been crying to Lucy on the phone for days after his sudden disappearance. So how could she not remember Ash? It took a...