Chapter 1:
Here I was standing in front of a mirror brushing my teeth for the fourth time, because that's what I do whenever I'm nervous. It keeps me occupied and calms my nerves. I bent down and spat into the sink the last remnants of the tooth paste. Turning on the tap I rinsed the brush and my mouth before spitting again. Looking up at the face in the mirror that was pale and worried.
"Come on Korra you can do this" I say to my reflection trying to put on a brave face that just ended up in a crooked smile and droopy eyes. I bowed my head staring at the sink with my hands either side supporting my weight. Whispering to myself I say
"Korra you know what you are doing, you can't back down," And with that I looked back up at the mirror my mouth set in a firm line of determination. I walked out of the locker room and onto the field towards the coach and rest of the players. With pats on the back and quick nods around the team I focused on the coach. It's the last game of the season, the grand finale the 'Fire ferrets' against the 'White falls Wolfbats'. Jogging on the spot keeping my leg muscles warm I was pumped and ready to go. The team put their hands in and chants to rile each other up then pumps their hands down breaking away. I jump sideways to my starting position as centre forward blocking out the sounds of the crowd. To knock me out of my focus was Mako the second striker coming up behind me. "Hey Korra pass to right wing first," He said quietly so no one but me could hear.
"Are you sure?" I said turning slightly to look at him. He gave me one of his famous mischievous grin.
"Have I ever been wrong?" Actually I could think of multiple instances where he's been wrong off the field however he was mostly accurate when it came to soccer.
"Alright we will do it your way," And with that he turned around and got into position, both of us focusing on the game.
The whistle blew and I kicked the ball off to right wing. Mako and I along with left wing raced forward finding clear spots for the ball. As if Mako was controlling the game there came a blind spot down the line on the right hand side of right wing. A team mate from the other team saw their mistake and started to run to cover it, I acted quickly and ran towards it myself calling for the right wing to kick it. I got there before the other teams player and was about to gain control of the ball when I was pushed in the back from the momentum of the other team, causing me to lose balance and fall forward. I closed my eyes and braced for impact. Fortunately for me I landed of something soft and mushy. I opened my eyes to look at my landing pillow to meet two beautifully enraged emerald green eyes. Unfortunately I landed on the schools most precious student, woops. I'll never hear the end of this. I blinked a few times to remember how to use my motor skills and got up, holding my hands out to help the gorgeous girl up. To my surprise she didn't knock them away and when I looked at her face again she didn't look so angry just stunned. "Well thank you for giving me a soft landing and sorry for any injuries," I said with a nervous laugh before running to the sidelines to do a penalty kick.
The rest of the game I found myself losing focus at times, just picturing the emerald eyes and those soft hands, then I'd glance every now and then into the stands to catch a glimpse of her sitting or standing. Usually when I saw her in the corridors, yes my eyes would follow her as she walked by but that was more because she always caught the attention of everyone, she just had that type of aura around her. Mako must've noticed something was up because he came up to run next to me.
"Oi Korra what's going on with you? You never get this distracted" He said with a puzzled look.
"Uh... Yeah I just have cramps…" I answered slowly wincing at how lame of an excuse that was but he just rolled his eyes and said under his breath, "Women." I glared at his back as he raced ahead to intercept the ball. The rest of the game went fairly quickly. The crowd would boo or cheer as players either blocked or scored goals. Bolin our goal keeper did a great job with keeping the ball out of the net and the game ended with the Fire Ferrets side going into a frenzy of victory.