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@Shaleen—Everything you said about Kaden and the Kaden/Yash friendship: Yes!
And good call on Nate being saved from finding out about Arabella mid-game. I wouldn’t want him to forever equate Arabella with a game-losing fumble.

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Chapter 28 (Yash):
> From “It’s become a two-man game—me against Nate.” to “I’m not the whole team, I reflect. I have teammates.” in a few dozen words. Yash may have started summer school already a pretty good guy, but he still matured a lot in P-E-E.
> And Coach Finnerty’s quick T.O. restores a bit of my confidence in her (after a few odd moments when it’s seemed like she’s not fully with it).
> The callback to “flattening the parabola”!!
> Both Nate and Yash (and both of their teams) trying to console Kaden is pretty awesome.
> Arabella makes the decision to be true to her “fairness” philosophy when she nods to Yash. Good redemption for her story arc. And she has a convert in Nate—nice.
> I wish the idiocy of the toilet protestors were harder to believe. The times we live in.

ONE MORE CHAPTER. I don’t want to see it end, but I can’t wait for the final ribbons to be tied on the story.