Keira
The championship countdown changed the energy of everything almost overnight. Practices doubled in intensity, film sessions stretched late into the evening, and even Monica’s schedule shifted from managing scandal control to managing something closer to actual athletic strategy, a welcome change after weeks of nothing but crisis after crisis.
I found myself spending more time at the rink than I ever had before, tucked into the same bleacher seat where Damien had once cornered me weeks earlier, now just watching practice unfold with something closer to genuine investment instead of obligation. It was strange, realizing somewhere in the middle of everything that I actually cared whether they won, not because of sponsorships or hashtags, but because I’d watched how much it meant to ea
