We Come Alive 5

Epilogue: Clover Jones

Clover Jones

After the boys left her behind in Georgia, Clover went on to be the star quarterback at the University of Georgia. She was best known for her great attitude, greater skills, and greatest connection with her teammates and fans. Every time she won a game, she would give credit to her mom, her number one fan.

Clover instantly became best friends with Lo, her former high school teammate turned college teammate. The two were always together any time of day and we're inseparable from the familiarity between them.

Clover continued to walk with her eyes hurried in her phone screen while Lo was walking beside her back to her dorm building.

"You think he's proud of me?" Lo wondered, walking under the street light that lit up their path.

Clover nodded her head, locking her phone and looking up at him. "He's your son. He probably thinks you're the coolest thing on Earth. Anyway, you paying for breakfast tomorrow?"

Lo chuckled. "You big-time superstar can't pay for a meal?" He scoffed, stopping outside the door of her building while she opened it to go inside.

"I'm a college athlete." She pointed out with a smile. "I don't get paid..." she trailed off. "If we did, we'd be millionaires. Between me and you alone? Billionaires."

"Billionaires?" He laughed. "How about we bring it back down to a cool million? What'd you do with your million?"

Clover easily answered. "Buy my mom a house. She deserves it. White picket fence, nice lawn, with lots of space. What'd you do with your million?"

Lo thought for a moment. "Buy my son a race car bed. He wants one so badly. Maybe even buy my pops a car in the meantime."

Clover chuckled. "Cute. See you in the morning?"

Lo nodded agreeing to the plan. He watched her walk in and disappear safely into the building before he went off to his own dorm.

She dated Ricky for the first six months of college before distance broke them up. They both dated other people throughout college, but Ricky's didn't last nearly as long as hers. Clover dated a boy named Rory she met her freshman year of college and dated him throughout, but she ends it just before their senior year on mutual terms leaving them both friends and with no hard feelings.

Although she tried to seem like her college experience was only joyful, there were a few bad moments. Some of them surrounding her sexual assault case after her high school senior year baseball tournament party gone horribly wrong. After two years of court dates and questioning, Clover sat happily with her mom in the court when her assaulter Adrian Chadwick was found guilty of sexual assault in the second degree and was sentenced to five years in prison, of which he served two and spent the other three years on probation, and a $5,000 fine. His friends who helped him were each sentenced to three years of probation.

Despite only being in college, she won three ESPY awards: Best breakout athlete once and best college female athlete twice.

Clover decided to spend the last year of college without dating anyone, focusing on herself. She found that she had to fall in love with the most important person in her life, herself. After graduating from college, she got back together with Ricky that summer but did decide that she wanted to change her life going forward. The first step was after her entire life of being degraded and abused, Clover put her foot down and became estranged from her father. She didn't talk to him for six years. Those years being some of the biggest of her life.

Clover, at the age of 21 and only barely graduated, got drafted to the NFL to the Kansas City Chiefs. She becomes the first woman to get drafted and halfway through her first season, she becomes the first woman to play in the NFL. The Kansas City Chiefs went on to the Super Bowl the second year she's on the team. They won the game, but unfortunately, Clover didn't play as the starting quarterback, rather her playing as a second or third-string like she did most of her entire career.