Three Knots for Three Souls

Chapter Four

1,122,024 boys play football in high school. Only 3-4% go on to play collage football. Then approximately 7% go on to play professional football.
Very few kids who play football are good enough to play professionally, yet somehow James Addams was good enough.

This made him his father's pride and joy. This also caused Jessie to be shoved into the background.

By junior year Jessie had started to drift apart from his brother, neither of them were happy about that, but didn't know how to reach out to the other.

That ticked off Elsa. A lot. It was the day before school started when she dragged them into the old tree house in the woods that they had built in third grade.

When they got there she set out all of her supplys. A long red suede cord and a pair of scissors.

She took the cord and wrapped it around her own wrist three times added about an inch and cut it. After pushing over to Jessie he did the same, then James.

She tied each cord together creating a long loop before twisting it so it stayed around Jessie's wrist.

"Three knots for the three of us," Jessie got it first, relizing. She nodded and James laughed, "Why does Jessie get to wear it?" he was still grinning so they knew he wasn't really upset.

"You can't wear bracelets on the field Jem," Jessie said teasing his brother.

They got closer after that, sleepovers started agian, and James would come down and watch Elsa paint while doing his homework. They were back to normal, behaving like siblings, behaving like they used to.

The main difference was that James almost always had dates on the weekends, which made it hard since they always watched Project Runway on the Friday night.

James normally ditched so it was just Jessie and Elsa, until Jessie got partnered with Maggs Fray and for a month she also spent Friday out in the shed watching Project Runway with Jessie and Elsa.

James had just broken up with Hanna and dicided to stay in and hang with Jessie and Elsa. He was unaware that Maggie was there too.

They spent two hours after the show ended arguing about everything they could.

They started dating soon after, they made quite a pair, the best football player in the county and her blue eyed, blue haired self.

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Lucas Novell was another newcomer to town, he was moving in with his father while his mother was working overseas in Japan.

Jessie was assigned to show him around the school for the rest few days, just so he didn't get lost.

Elsa found them making out behind the sports ahead bfore the week was out.

James was worried about Elsa not approving of him, but instead he ended up knowing sign language and they had covensetion all night, until she excused herself a bit early. Luke ended up permently joining the Friday night Project Runway viewings where James convinced him to try out for football with him, he did and made the team.

That left Elsa the only one not dating anyone, Maggs and Luke tried to set her up a few times - but to no avail, she refused to date.

Then the prom rolled around, Mags tried everything to get her to go with somebody, anybody. Still she refused.

Luke was the one who got her to agree, five simple words were all it took, "I'll teach you to drive."

She had a date and a dress by the next week. She ended up going with Luke's cousin, he had just gotten dumped and spent most of the night pinning over his ex. That suited Elsa fine, he read most of the night. It drive Maggs nuts.

True to his word Luke started her driving lessons that weekend. Her Aunt never had time to teach her, and the twins simply wouldn't.

After several months of practice she did get her drivers license. The day after she got it Elsa drove Jessie to school. The agreed that only in an emergency that she would drive.

Elsa's aunt however thought she was a fine driver and got her an old, cheap minivan.

Seating for 7 and only $3,500. Gotta love small town pricing.