They barely speak to each other for the next few days, only the minimum of surface courtesies, requests, responses. "You don't have to come," Zaida says to her mother the day before the Real game. "It's no big deal ( Read more... )

Public service announcement: staying awake until 5:30 in the morning reading football fanfic and alternately sobbing hysterically three years too late over Xabi leaving Liverpool and Stevie G and laughing hysterically over Ibra in the Underworld and Impossible is nothing is, to say the least, definitely not how you do reasonable mature human being ( Read more... )

"Alright," Pablo says, although David can tell that he's just dropping the subject. "Hey, did I tell you about how I saw my friend Asier the other day ( Read more... )

If it matters, I don’t know why I’ve never shown a single trace of the disease that rotted out your father’s lungs. I spent enough time with him, and to be honest I think it was more about putting out a challenge to whatever made him ill than being brave or compassionate-do you understand? I loved your father, and I did everything that I ( Read more... )