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The Substitute Season

drama◐ Teen
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In the morning Theo set both versions side by side on the laptop. Marcus read them slowly with his good hand on the trackpad. He stopped at the true one, the one about quitting the team and being scared to tell anyone. "This is the one," he whispered.

Marcus picked the true one, but asked Theo to soften the part about their dad. Theo did, keeping it honest but kind. They sent it. It felt like the first thing the two of them had ever really made side by side.

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