Sidelined

~BECKETT~

My father did not sit down. I didn't expect him to. I knew I was in for a lecture after doing the opposite of what he asked.

He stood in front of my desk with a printed notice in his hand like he had been waiting all morning to put it there.

"The league came to an agreement," he said. "You sit the next four games out."

I froze.

What the fuck? I'd never been suspended for that long before