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anyone.
    â€œWe’ll see about that,” Alex said. “I’ve been saving my best for last.”

    At the start of the second half, both teams took their positions on the field again, doing their best to ignore the sun beating down on them. When Mia blew the whistle, Jenna kicked the ball deep into the left corner of the field and watched as Sarah head-butted the ball to stop it, then passed it right up centerfield to Tiernan.
    Suddenly, Karen raced past Abby and Priya, who were trying to block her, and straight at Tiernan. Jenna couldn’t believe it. Where had this aggressive side of Karen come from?
    â€œGo, Karen!” Jenna screamed as Karen unbelievably stole the ball from Tiernan and began dribbling it down the field.
    â€œHelp help help help help,” Karen was yelling as she ran. Now that she actually had the ball, she didn’t have a clue what to do with it. Especially since Tiernan, after wiping the look of surprise off her face, had glued herself to Karen’s side to try to get the ball back from her.
    â€œOver here! I’m open!” Jenna yelled, waving her arms at Karen. “Kick it here!” Alex was on her like a hawk, trying to block her, but Jenna broke free and ran out into the open toward the goal. “Karen. Here!”
    In a moment of panic as Tiernan, Abby, and Priya all descended on her, Karen kicked the ball wildly up into the air. It headed toward Jenna, but she could tell it was going to land a few feet short. She shot into a sprint to see if she could reach it before Alex intercepted it.
    She was running full force when her right foot seemed, strangely, to sink straight into the ground. Her leg twisted, her knees buckled, and a searing needle of pain shot up her calf. For a second, it seemed as if time stopped, and she was airborne. There was a flash of blue sky and green grass, and then she hit the ground so hard that her teeth rattled in her mouth. After that, there was nothing but the pain, the horrible pain, stabbing through her right leg.

    â€œIt hurts!” Jenna sobbed through clenched teeth, when she could breathe again.
    â€œJenna, are you okay?” a voice said close to her head. “Open your eyes and look at me. Please.”
    She felt two cool hands holding her head and brushing her hair and clumps of grass and dirt off her face. But she didn’t want to open her eyes and look. No, it was better to keep them closed. Maybe if she kept them closed, her leg would stop throbbing as if it were being prodded by a thousand hot pokers.
    â€œJenna, please, come on, sweetie,” the voice said. It was Andie’s voice. Jenna recognized it now. “Open your eyes,” Andie pleaded.
    Jenna finally opened her eyes, letting the tears she’d been holding in run down her cheeks, and looked up into a sea of worried faces. “I think I’m okay,” she whispered between sobs, wiping at her eyes. “My leg just hurts, but it’ll be fine in a minute. I’ll walk it off. What did I trip on?”
    Mia scoped out the grass around where Jenna fell. “It’s a groundhog hole,” she said. “I think you just stepped right into it and tripped.”
    â€œStupid groundhog,” Jenna hissed as another stab of pain shot up her leg. “Stupid hole. I could’ve had that goal. I was wide open.”
    Nat, Alex, and Alyssa gave weak laughs.
    â€œNow I know you’re going to live,” Alex said, trying to kid. But Jenna could see the tears in her eyes, too. That made her cry even harder.
    â€œLet’s take a look at your leg,” Andie said to Jenna. She reached to take off Jenna’s shoe to check her ankle, but the second she got close to Jenna’s foot, Jenna let out a howl.
    â€œNo! Don’t touch it,” Jenna said, her hands hovering protectively around her leg. Just the thought of the pain she’d feel if anyone touched it was enough to make her panic.
    â€œOkay,”