Flashback
"Great practice!" Coach McNee hollered out as the girls filed into a line to go towards the locker rooms. "Alyssa, I'd like a word with you before you go home tonight."
Alyssa nodded, knowing she'd messed up the last stunt as the extension, causing the two bases holding her at the bottom to fall. She'd been feeling off lately thanks to mounting pressure at home. Her father had been in a foul mood recently, berating her for not finding her mate yet. She was a straight A gifted student and the only thing that appeased him thus far was that she was well on her way to getting a scholarship for college. She was in the advanced program at her high school which combined senior year and junior year so she could actually graduate early from high school. Her teachers had even recomended
