muse_shuffle | January Disc Two

Track 13. I will dedicate
And sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth
Of how my story's ending
And I wish I could know if the directions that I take
And all the choices that I make won't end up all for nothing
- ‘Crawling in the Dark’ – Hoobastank

Co-written with itwontstopme

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Jason didn’t really know what brought him to the empty Panthers stadium that afternoon. School was out for the day and with the football season over, the field was deserted and quiet. Home felt so oppressive and small these days. God bless his parents and all the effort they made to try and help him feel at home again, but it wasn’t working. He was restless in Dillon and no matter what he did, he couldn’t shake that feeling. He slowly pushed himself up to the fifty yard line, the wheels of his chair leaving tracks in the dirt on the sideline. The bleachers loomed up towards the sky across from him and he sighed, leaning forward and resting his elbows on his knees as he just watched the empty field.

There was no way to know how many times he had run the length of it or how many tackles he had instigated there. His eyes inevitably trailed to that one place that would haunt him forever. The tackle gone wrong. The interception and then ending up in a broken, crushed mess barely feet away from where he sat just now. That is where it all ended… or started, depending how you looked at it. It felt like a lifetime ago. Hell, it felt like it hadn’t even been him who spent the best years of his life training with blood, sweat and tears on this very field to become a professional footballer. And in a way it wasn’t him. He wasn’t the same person anymore that he was back then and never would be that Jason Street again.

( He tore his eyes away from that patch of finely cropped grass and looked up, squinting a little in the watery winter sun and realised then that he wasn’t alone... )

Sam Jameson [supermarketsam] referenced with permission


Word Count | 1,841

From the Three Amigos

You Are an Extra Point

You are reliable, steady, and a good team player. You may not take risks to get glory, but you always deliver on what you promise. When it comes to what you're good at, you know your stuff. You have years of practice to thank for that. Your success rate is unmatched. If you say you're good at something, it's likely you're the best.

What Football Scoring Method Are You?

Something to distract myself...

You Are a Cherry Flavored Popsicle

You are sweet and friendly. For you, summer is all about doing your favorite things. You are a nostalgic person. You love old fashioned things like ice cream trucks. You savor everything. Every taste of summer, the feeling of the sun, the smell of the beach... Of all the types, you love summer the most.

What Flavor Popsicle Are You?