Pom-Poms and Passes
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They used to share everything, birthdays, secrets, dreams. Now, all they share is a rivalry neither of them wants to admit feels like love.
Harper Lane and Jace Collins were once inseparable. Born on the same day, raised side by side, they were best friends destined for a lifetime of joint birthday parties and inside jokes. Until everything shattered on their fourteenth birthday-the day no one showed up to her party and everyone went to his.
Three years later, Harper is head cheerleader. Jace is the star quarterback. And they're not speaking.
Everyone at Ridgeview High thinks their rivalry is legendary-pep rallies, game days, hallway run-ins that border on war. But behind every sarcastic comment and stolen glance is a tension neither one of them can shake.
Now that senior year is here, so is everything they've tried to ignore: the lingering pain, the unsaid words, and the terrifying, magnetic pull of something more than hate.
Because love and football have one thing in common-
One wrong move, and you lose it all.
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