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Chapter 4 Eden You can’t imagine my surprise one afternoon when I got home from practice to see a friend request from Nick Barnes pop up on my computer, and on several different social media platforms. I guess it wasn’t a total surprise that he reached out to me, but what I did wonder was why now? It had been all over the news the year before when he’d been traded to the Austin Athletics. At the time I had watched his arrival with curiosity. Eleven years ago, my mother had whisked me away from LA, and cut ties with Lucinda Barnes and her brood after my father and Ziggy Barnes were killed in a plane crash together with their pilot, flight crew, and the other members of their rock band Blacksmith. I hated moving, but I hated everything that year. My father had been my rock, and losing him