We start a new feature tomorrow, a serialized pandemic
journal from two characters, Logan Matthews and Tommy West. It is planned to
appear every Friday, with the guys alternating weekly entries.
Tommy and Logan had realized their dreams at the end of,
their senior year at Dual Carolina University, setting school and some
conference records on the basketball court. They made it to the NCAA tournament
each year, never winning, but losing to Duke and their mutual brother, Antoine
Jackson, in their Junior Year. They joined the Chicago Minotaurs of the NBA,
and got married that night.
Both young men were realistic about their ability to play in
the NBA. They could make it, get some game time, occasionally start, but being
NBA players wasn't their dream. They had survived severe trauma as high school
freshmen, and it affected their lives for years afterward. Neither had
nightmares, both had been through counseling, and they came out the other side
of recovery stronger, and knowing what they wanted to do with their lives.
Logan had joined the team’s legal department as a paralegal while attending law
school. He would work with the team after passing the bar, and he was spending
most of his time protecting abused high school athletes. Tommy led the team’s outreach
program to damaged youth, using sports, experience, and the support of his
extended chosen family, to help heal.
Things were going swimmingly until New Year’s Day, when
Tommy noticed an inconspicuous news article about Taiwan. It seemed the island
nation had closed its borders to all foreigners, and would only allow its
citizens already abroad to return. When they arrived, they were put in isolation
for two weeks. Something about a virus.
They talked with Rick, a professor of medicine
who had been Logan’s uncle’s roommate in college. He told them he wasn’t a
virologist, but a friend in Taiwan had told him to get prepared to go into temporary
quarantine just in case. Neither of the newlyweds was particularly worried, but
they didn’t send it back when Antoine gave them a complete home gym. There went
the den.
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