"Okay."

"Just don't let the season end Friday."

Sandy chuckled and nuzzled my neck. "Yes ma'am."

Eventually I did walk her to the door. "Do you think there'll be any blowback from today?"

Sandy shrugged. "I hope not. But I'm worried about Kaylin. I can't imagine the stress on her right now."

***

It turns out she was right to be concerned. I got to practice to pick up Paige just as they were finishing, and I didn't see Kaylin in the stretching lines. There were only about half the number of parents watching, and Mary Ann Ellis wasn't among them.

Paige came out of the locker room ten minutes...