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white pom-poms waving, to lead the students as they sang.
    The band started to play the Bonnerville Tiger’s school song, and Amy rose to her feet. “Come on, Colleen. We’re supposed to stand.”
    â€œWhy?” Colleen complained as she pushed herself to her feet. “They don’t stand up for our school song.”
    â€œThat doesn’t matter. Mr. Dorman says it’s a sign of respect.”
    â€œThen, why don’t they respect us?”
    â€œI don’t know.”
    â€œI do.” Colleen began to grin. “Because they’re going to lose and they know it!”
    Amy glanced over at the scoreboard to see if she’d missed something. Just as she’d thought, the game was tied at forty-seven, forty-seven. Colleen had sounded very confident, but Brett had two fouls. Two more and he was out, and without Brett, their chances of winning went down the tube.
    â€œBut the score’s tied.” Amy moved closer so that Colleen could hear her. The band was playing the Bonnerville song very loudly, perhaps to make up for the fact that the clarinets didn’t seem to know the music. “And the Bonnerville Tigers are really on tonight. They’ve only missed one free-throw. How can you be sure that we’re going to win?”
    â€œDanny told me. He’s sitting right behind us.”
    Amy glanced behind her. Colleen’s brother, Danny, was sitting four rows back, his arm draped casually around Megan Stillwell, who’d dropped out of school last year. Megan was working at Tom-Tom’s Truckstop out on the highway, a horrible greasy spoon with the motto, Tom-Tom’s—You Can’t Beat Our Food.
    A sigh escaped Amy’s lips. Megan wasn’t very bright. She’d flunked out of school. But she had a perfect figure, and she was so pretty, she could have been a model with her gorgeous shoulder-length auburn hair and deep, sea green eyes. Megan knew how to show off her figure. She was wearing a low-cut black sweater and gold hoop earrings that glistened in the lights overhead.
    Danny had cut his hair again. It was very short now, and he looked a lot like Keanu Reeves had in Speed. He was even wearing a clean white shirt, unbuttoned at the neck and with the sleeves rolled up. He looked incredibly sexy.
    Megan didn’t seem to notice that she was staring, but Danny did. He caught Amy’s eye, and winked. Before Amy could stop herself, she winked back. Then she blushed and turned away quickly, before Danny could see how he had affected her.
    As the band finished the Bonnerville song, the Hamilton High crowd began to cheer. It was almost time for their team to take the floor. Amy cheered, too, being careful not to lift her arms too high. She was wearing a cotton forest green sweater that had been much longer before she’d washed it.
    â€œDid you hear what I said?” Colleen had to shout over the noise of the crowd. “Danny says the Tigers are definitely going to lose.”
    Amy nodded. “I heard you. But what does Danny know about basketball?”
    â€œNothing, but he’s dating their coach’s daughter. And she told him that the Tigers always fall apart in the second half.”
    â€œLet’s hope she’s right.” Amy started to cheer again as the band played their trumpet fanfare, and the Hamilton High Chargers ran onto the floor. The cheerleaders were right behind them, and they led the crowd as they all started to sing the school song. Amy had always thought that the school song was insipid. It was about dear old Hamilton High and how it would live in their hearts forever. But she’d never expressed that opinion verbally. Mr. Dorman had written the lyrics when he was a first-year teacher, and now that he was the principal, all the students and faculty pretended to love it.
    When the school song was over, Amy and Colleen sat back down in their seats and watched while the cheerleaders did a new cheer that