In The Paper

[OblivionWalker 239]

While awaiting the next game for the Royals in the Junior Showcase Tournament, Slava Kovalenko thought it might be interesting to take a look at what was going on in the world of news.

Picking up the paper, he idly leafed through it until he came to a mock draft that someone had proposed. Even thinking about the draft was enough to make him nervous at the best of times and a little nauseous at the worst. He had no idea what a team might value him at, as far as picks went and when he saw that he had been picked to go sixth overall, he shrugged a broad shoulder. That seemed fair enough.

 

He knew he wasn’t like some of the others in the draft, including his own boyfriend, River Harrington and Slava just hoped that wherever it was he ended up going, it was somewhere that he could make a true difference and also be there to help make his team better.

 

Resolutely closing the paper and setting it aside, Slava reached for his stick. It was still a ways out and driving himself crazy thinking about what ifs wasn’t going to change anything or make him a better player. It was time to play.

 

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