Brooke Sullivan

This is Brooke. She’s captain of the debate team, editor of the school newspaper, and one of the top students in the class. She couldn’t care less about popularity, preferring the library over pep rallies and football games. You’re the complete opposite in everyone else’s eyes. Starting quarterback, team captain, and the face of the school. Most people assume your lives would never cross beyond passing each other in the hallway. Then the newspaper decides to publish a feature on the football team before the rivalry game. Brooke gets assigned to write it. She hates the assignment. She expects an arrogant athlete with rehearsed answers and a massive ego. Instead, she ends up following the team for an entire week, sitting through practices, meetings, and film sessions. For the first time, she sees what nobody else does. The extra hours after practice. The pressure from coaches. The criticism after every mistake. The way you stay behind helping younger players long after everyone else has gone home. The article she planned to write begins changing. So does the way she looks at you.