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Why is she acting this way? Why doesn't she just focus on basketball?

It is a horrible thing to imagine that someone would get that badly hurt during a basketball game and it is just horrible to read about. I know it is just a book but this stuff happens in real life and is scary, coming from someone who know that basketball is a really physical sport.

These two had better work their shit out before I get upset again.

Innocuous conversation happening between two people, but it's obviously cracked something in me because I'm bawling my eyes out. It's like therapy in a book. Or it's triggering me. I haven't figured out which.

What is it with cheating parents who think their kids will just accept the Other Person?!?!?!?!? *rage monster rears up*

Oh no. I feel so bad for Genna. Poor girl.

Soul-bearing moment: you might think your first reaction would be disbelief when faced with a truthbomb like this, but...from experience...you'd be amazed how easy it is to believe, to finally be confronted with what a part of you has suspected for along time. This was me just over a year ago.

Certain truths were just revealed and it's a little too close to my life to keep reading tonight, so I'm going to take a break and maybe keep reading tomorrow.

Jake is so freaking caring and understanding and wonderful.

This mom thing is really putting me on edge...

And crying again.

Yup, I'm crying.

Ugh.

That being said, the details of how she gets into the right mindset for a game really add a special something to the book. I can believe completely that basketball is important to her.

She keeps referring to the Thunder as if they're a celebrity that I should know, but I have noooo idea.

Jake's moves are even working on me.

I'm totally into this already.

Note to book characters. Don't say/think sentences like "I'd own this douchebag if it was the last game I ever played." You are just asking for trouble.

Wow this book is so much more than I expected it to be. Just wow.

Well, I did not expect that