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While everyone moves to a machine, Adara and I stand glaring<br />

at each other.<br />

“Get moving, girls,” Coach Z shouts. “You start on the bench.”<br />

He points to the bench press in the far corner of the weight<br />

room, the only station not taken. Deciding that my training is more<br />

important than my animosity, I turn and head for the machine.<br />

I’m just settling in on the bench when Adara joins me.<br />

The first whistle blows and I reach up to take the bar.<br />

“Well, well,” Adara says, making no move to spot me. “If it isn’t<br />

the happy home-wrecker.”<br />

Ignoring her, I lift the bar off the brackets and start counting.<br />

One. Two.<br />

“Don’t think you can just steal my boyfriend without consequences,<br />

kako.”<br />

“I didn’t—” Six. “Steal—” Seven. “Anything.”<br />

“What?” She peers down at me. “Did you think I wouldn’t hear<br />

about what happened on Saturday?”<br />

“I don’t—” Twelve. “Really—” Thirteen. “Care.”<br />

“It was quite funny, actually,” she says, her voice mocking. “Griffin<br />

could hardly stop laughing long enough to tell me.”<br />

“What?” I let the bar clatter back into place on the brackets.<br />

Sitting up, I look around the room, finding Griffin and Vesna at<br />

the lateral pull station. He is watching Vesna pull like three hundred<br />

pounds. For a second he turns and glances at me, but then<br />

quickly looks away.<br />

Then again, he might have been looking at Adara.<br />

“Castro,” Coach Z shouts, “you’re still on the—”<br />

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