My best bud dares me to play football while wearing a plug.

It’s the most ridiculous dare yet. And we have a long history of ridiculous dares.

I’m a straight, 200-pound linebacker. I’ve never had anything up there. Ever. Now I have to make it through an entire practice with this thing shoved inside me.

Problem is, it feels good. Alarmingly good.

So good that when my friend inspects me after, I start having thoughts I shouldn’t. I want him to put something else in. Something bigger. Something attached to him.