Page 22 of What Are The Odds?
Levi: Now I have an AFL team you need a hockey team.
Grace: Any red, yellow and blue teams in the NHL?
Levi: Given I went for your team, it’s only fair you should go for mine.
Grace: Which is?
Levi: The Islanders.
Grace: And they’re from?
Levi: New York.
Grace: I thought it was the New York Rangers.
Levi: Mention those traitors again and this friendship is over, Hughesy.
Grace: That team is banished from my vocabulary.
Levi: Good. What are you up to now?
Grace: Driving to Washington. We have a meet.
I’d done that drive more times than I could count for hockey. In fact, we had an away game against Washington coming up. It was a two-and-a-half-hour drive. And always fucking brutal after a loss. I guess I better make sure we won.
Grace: I owe you for this sim. This road trip without Spotify would’ve been unbearable.
Levi: What are you listening to?
Grace: Dice.
I picked up my AirPods that were on the coffee table and placed them in each ear. I searched Dice in Spotify, then hit play.
Levi: Not bad.
Grace: You’re listening to them?
Levi: Yep. Favourite song?
Grace: Hm. Let me think.
Grace: Double Espresso.
Grace: No. Reality.
Grace: Wait. No. Eyes Ahead.
Levi: Let me play them all and I’ll come back to you.
I lounged back on the couch, eyes closed as I played the three songs. Then a few others.
Levi: Plot twist. I’m going with Tickets.
Grace: I respect the honesty.
Levi: What’s your favourite band of all time?
Grace: What an evil question.
