He was handing it to me.

Chapter 7 — Fourteen Years

That frightened four-year-old grew into a young man six feet two inches tall, fast as weather, with a left foot on the soccer field that had started to bring serious men with clipboards and college logos to our little stadium.

By his senior year Keegan was the varsity captain, and his team fought its way to the state championship.

I had been at nearly every match he’d played since he was seven — I could count on one hand the ones I’d missed, and each of those still bothered me.