Life goes on and Audrey's family car brakes have gotten fixed shortly after the holidays ended. So two weeks later, Pablo goes to Audrey's home on Friday night, so he can go to the ESA Cade Cane Classic on Saturday morning. Before they go to bed, they are about to kiss each other again.
"It's not often that we kiss each other, after all, I am the one with the busy schedule, for the second third of the year, but I think we're due to do so again" Audrey then prepares herself mentally for a kiss.
"It has been weeks, but I feel like basketball has a good chance of making the playoffs, so all this hard work does bear some fruits after all" Pablo has a quick glance at VA's girls' basketball schedule for the season.
"Let's not forget about quiz bowl and how I feel we may have been putting the cart before the horse... Holy Beggar!"
"What do you mean, my love?"
"For the past month or so, we kept begging money in preparation for getting a second squad at the HSNCT"
It's just that the math team is not as good as it used to be. And certainly not with two quiz bowlers in tow. When we were in middle school, I kept hearing about how the math team bankrolled all academic teams here at VA. Now quiz bowl must shoulder more of the financial burden than it used to, Audrey muses, while she receives an email from the coach. Detroit Catholic Central wants to host a double-header of a show, the first part being a Lincoln-Douglas debate round, with their coaches judging, the second being three quiz bowl games: A vs A, B vs B and middle school vs C. Next week, on Thursday.
"Remember when I said our best bet to accomplish this is the ESA Cade Cane Classic?" Pablo asks Audrey, while she is still deep in thought.
"The field is large. Its final size is twenty-four teams, so we both need to finish in the top four for this to happen" Pablo checks against the tentative field.
"I'm confident Lilina and I have improved enough to make it to the top-four here. Time to kiss, I guess..."
As the two kiss each other, their quiz bowling worries melt away, and they feel this kiss is more pleasurable here than their previous one at center court, since here, they have actual intimacy. But once the kiss ends:
"Last time, we kissed at center court, and we had dozens, if not hundreds of people seeing us kiss each other as they left the fieldhouse. It made me feel a little uncomfortable then" Pablo recounts his experiences of kissing her. "This kiss feels so much better"
"Thank you. It seems like you finally opened up to the world of intimacy, and that I'm more than just a brain or a basketball player" Audrey points out before going to bed.
The following morning, the pair awakens early, and Audrey seems to feel more pain than Pablo did upon getting out of bed.
"I'll go brew some coffee, how much milk and sugar do you want?" Pablo asks his girlfriend about the coffee before he brews it.
"The painkiller takes time to brew, when you will be done brewing it, I will be back to put the milk and sugar myself!" Audrey then tells him where the ground coffee is.
Audrey being in the bathroom, Pablo, on the other hand, prepares four cups of what Audrey calls a painkiller. He also grills some whole-wheat bread so that they can use whatever spread they want on it. Peanut butter for both quiz bowlers.
And, of course, the teenagers are ready to go earlier than the parents, they eat cereal together to supplement this hasty breakfast. Fortunately, they are done with their homework for the week, and can't help but think of the opponents they will face.
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Can't Stop the Questions
RomancePablo, a sophomore playing tight end for Venomous Agendas High, plays the best football game of his life, but as the season comes to a close, his coaches tell him he can't rely on football to go to college, forcing him to buckle down on academics fo...
