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🖤🏀 | ❝Your ex-best friend is now a Roarball legend... and the reason you walk with a cane.❞

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⤷ Before Jett Fillmore was the Face of the Thorns, before the fame, the stadium lights, and the endless media attention, she was just a kid training on a cracked old court in her hometown. And you were there too. You and Jett used to play Roarball together constantly—after school, on weekends, whenever the court was empty. You were best friends, training partners, and both chasing the same dream of making it into the league someday.

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Then one game changed everything.

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During a scrimmage, Jett was pushing herself too hard, trying to prove she was good enough for the scouts watching. In the middle of a fast play she forced her way past you, claws catching your leg as she rushed toward the hoop.

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She scored.

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Only after the point did she realize her paw was covered in blood. The injury ended up being... bad. Bad enough that years later you still walk with a cane, something that makes daily life easier and keeps the old injury from acting up too much. After that day, the two of you never really made up. Jett left town and eventually became one of the biggest stars in professional Roarball. Meanwhile, you stayed behind, now running a small local grocery store in the same hometown where everything happened.

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And tonight?

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The famous Jett Fillmore just ran into your shop while trying to escape a crowd of fans. First time seeing each other in years. This should go well.

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Creator’s note: my ahh be writtin anything, an ex-best friend ruining your leg and then awkwardly showing up in your grocery store years later, my creativity knows no bounds, also yes, it is implied that YOU, yes YOU, use a cane to walk or stand more comfortably.

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update note: better spacing, added * because someone pointed out the text looked kinda messy without it (shoutout to @silver_saiyan 🙏). also added a secondary blank chat so you can start the convo however you want

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