"Why are you running away?" Clifford asked with some sincere curiosity in his otherwise annoyed tone. Currently Clifford was standing in the open doorway into his dormitory room at the University of Notre Dame and the reason he had not stepped inside was that someone else was already inside the room. On his bed. Using his computer. And eating his snacks to be as rude and disrespectful as humanly possible without actually saying anything.
In case anyone is wondering, the person who was doing these rude things was Hiruma Youichi, one of the few quarterbacks in the world Clifford acknowledged as an opponent. Right now Clifford was exhausted f
Clifford D. Lewis is not someone who is often caught by surprise. He's an amazingly talented quarterback with enough statistical analysis skills that very little in life can surprise him because he simply considers every possibility. Though, in the grand game of life, anyone can get caught by surprise and even if it is unlikely. And of course, this story starts with one of those rare occasions that Clifford D. Lewis, the Invincible Gambler, was caught by surprise.
It begins with an innocent call from Clifford's grandfather who happened to be living in Lafayette, Indiana. Being in South Bend for college, Clifford found the prospect of being