Calm Before the Chaos

PIPER'S POV

The team broke apart, voices overlapping again.

There was energy, fire and determination. Everything that was necessary. And I admired them, their spirits for that.

Kellan glanced toward me immediately and smiled.

He smiled like the world was simple, like all that mattered at that moment was the game. He jogged over, towel slung around his neck. “You hear that?”

“I did.”

“Sooner than w