Shots Fired

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Darcy Darcy Darcy.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The name I should have wiped from my mind nearly two years ago.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her brother and my assistant captain has repeatedly warned she's off-limits to a guy like me-a playboy bound to bed her one night and break her heart the next morning-an opinion shared by her stepdad who also happens to be my coach. I can see why they don't want their goalie anywhere near her. My reputation with women isn't exactly unblemished.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except they shouldn't judge what they don't understand and neither should my girl. Okay she's not </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>technically</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> my girl yet but that's just semantics as are the things I'll do to make her mine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Each time she's visited from the UK I've warred with the respect I have for my friendship with her brother versus pursuing a growing obsession for the honey-haired bombshell with blue eyes as big as the Ocean that separates us.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That is until everything changes and there's nothing keeping me at a safe distance. She's living in Brooklyn and looking for fun with guys and I can no longer observe from the sidelines. Any chance-no matter how small-she gives me I'm going to take it and say to hell with the consequences.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only the opportunity I get isn't small and neither are the stakes that go with it.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But again that's just semantics ...</strong></p><p></p>