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Jared was mourning his own chance. Unlike his brother, he had gotten a small sampling and it had made him want her that much more.
    “I looked, but I didn’t touch. It was you that made it all weird. How could you get caught in the first place?”
    Jared didn’t know. It had just happened. It had been the way she had looked up at him. He didn’t even remember why they had gotten so close. He just remembered her standing beneath him looking up at him with those big blue eyes. He wasn’t going to justify that moment to anyone, not even Brandon. His brother did have a point. Jared had gone over the line when he had touched her. It was not something that he could have known would happen. The fact that they were caught had definitely not even been on his mind at the time.
    “It just happened.”
    “Well now you know how I feel, wanting something that you can never have.”
    Jared wasn’t ready to give up yet. She had given him the small hope that he needed to move forward. He just had to find a way to get her home and then get his hands on her. It was hard to forget how she had melted against him. All he had to do was touch her just right and Jared was sure that she would be his. He was getting as bad as Brandon, thinking of only Clarke.
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    His plan to get her home was not going so well. Clarke ignored his calls at work. When another month had passed, she finally answered to tell him to stop calling her. Jared tried to not hear the aggravation in her tone or the way that she sounded. But he got the hint and stopped calling her at work. Jared would just have to think of another angle to get what he wanted. He wasn’t ready to give up just yet.
    The next angle was his stepmom. He knew that Marla was missing her daughter. Marla insisted that they didn’t talk about her, almost tearing up when Jared mentioned her going to their last game. It was a big deal because they were going to unveil who they would be drafted with, in the next draft. Jared knew that she would be surprised to find out that it was only going to be right down the road from her. If she was going to run away, he was determined to follow. Brandon didn’t care as long as they played together and the money was right.
    “I was really hoping she could come up for the last game. I know it is tense around here, but it feels like a family thing, don’t you think?”
    She sighed and pushed her dyed hair back from her face. “I still don’t know what to make of it all. I did not expect her to leave like that.” Marla had been more surprised than many when she took off because they had always been so close. Her daughter was changing and she wasn’t sure that she liked it. Her moving off was completely out of character, but she realized that her stepbrothers had something to do with it. Jared had something to do with it, that much was clear, but she had seen the way Brandon looked at her too.
    “Yeah it was a surprise to me as well. Why don’t you invite her for the game and the party afterwards? It has been a while. We can invite her friends and maybe she will miss being here.”
    Marla looked at him and wondered why he was so interested. They had never gotten along before, that much was clear. The three of them had years of arguing behind them. “I still don’t see why you are so worried about it Jared.”
    “I miss her. I know we argued a lot, but it’s just strange without her here. Me and Brandon are leaving after the draft and this will be our last year together. I don’t know. It is just different without her here.”
    She knew there was more to it, but she was thinking the same thing about time not being on her side. Marla was already feeling the stirrings of empty-nest. Soon they would all be gone. For that reason alone Clarke should come home. Jared was right, it was a big deal.
    “You’re right Jared. Soon everything is going to change. I might call her. Your last game will give me an excuse to call her at least.”
    Jared smiled to her and