The Boy Who Gave Up the Race to Save His Rival

Coach said. “You got ten minutes?”

“For what?”

“To see how fast you can run when you’re not wearing grocery dust.”

Marcus almost smiled.

Almost.

“I don’t have running shoes.”

Coach Brooks looked down at the ruined pair on Marcus’s feet.

“I noticed.”

The next day, Coach Brooks brought him a pair of old running shoes in a plain paper bag.

They were not new.

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