Normalcy

Jared’s always heard that time like, accelerates as you get older, and it makes sense, kind of — when you’re five, a year is twenty percent of the entire life you’ve lived, and now Jared’s not even at six percent — but it is actively insane how quickly the season runs down. Like, he swears one minute he was facing school and the preseason, kind of bummed because he wasn’t going to be able to spend all his time with Bryce anymore, and suddenly they’ve got two games left, a playoff position locked up, and he’s going to turn eighteen right around the first series (fingers crossed it is first, not only). It’s nuts.