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ACT ONE. game, set & snatch! CHAPTER iii. ❛ THE LOVE GAME. ❜
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ADIDAS PARTY, LONG ISLAND. 2006.
WATCHING TASHI DUNCAN PLAY THAT AFTERNOON was like taking a bite from the apple after so many years of starving. In what the trio always found to be a tedious ordeal, their lives were now forever altered. After all, they couldn't go back. They couldn't just forget what they had seen. It was something so beautiful and beyond a game of tennis that the three could not expel it from their minds. Prudence recalls how Tashi had moved ━━━━━━ long legs striding like that of a gazelle, teeth sharp and bared like that of something worse. She was both wonderful and frightening all at the same time and neither boy nor girl could keep their eyes off her. In fact, the three think they may have given themselves a serious case of whiplash from tracking the player's every move. Prudence envied her and hated her (of course) but was also in terrible awe of her.
And that only made her hate her more.
Prue supposes that Tashi's mysterious bewitching was what drove them to the Long Island party that night. Art and Patrick had ventured over the beach in the hopes of scoring Tashi's attention. And Prue? Well, she was here to make sure that didn't happen. Under no circumstances would she let herself be bested just as Patrick is finally beginning to pay notice to her.
