CHAPTER 1

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This is the moment she has been waiting for. After spending two months running her heart out for the cross country team, Kate Beckett's time to shine was here. High school soccer tryouts. The official tryouts were scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon, but because she was already enrolled in sixth period athletics, she sat on the sidelines as she watched all of the returners warming up. She pretended to read one of her textbooks, feeling a little awkward about watching their practice. She was halfway through a chapter talking about the heart in her health class textbook when a shadow covered her. She looked up to see her Biology teacher standing a couple of feet in front of her.

"Kate, do you want to join in since you are already here? I'm sure the girls wouldn't mind."

She looks up and says with a nervous look on her face, "Uhh sure."

So she puts her cleats on, takes one last swig of water, and follows Coach Montgomery towards the practice.

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Two and a half hours later, she headed to the parking lot to meet her mom. Rounding the corner of the science building, she runs into someone. Everything in her arms goes flying to the ground and the person who ran into her immediately falls to the ground and starts to pick all of her things up.

"I am so sorry. I wasn't paying attention." He says, handing her books back. She looks up after pulling the books to her chest and sees the brownest pair of eyes she has ever seen.

"It's okay." She stumbles over. Why was she acting like this? She has never stumbled over her words just because there is a cute guy talking to her.

"I'm Will by the way." He says as his smile reaches the corners of his eyes.

"Kate." She says shaking his hand, noticing for the first time, just how cute his dimples were. As they shook hands, she couldn't help the smile that appeared on her face.

"Has anyone ever told you that you have the most beautiful eyes?" Will asks still holding her hand, slowly rubbing the back of it with his thumb, soothing her.

Kate ducked her head and blushed before retracting her hand and saying, "No."

"Well you do." He says before continuing with, "It was nice meeting you Kate."

She watches as he walks by her and then heads to her mom's car with a smile on her face hoping that she would get to see Mr. Brown Eyes again.

When Kate opens the door, and climbs into her mom's car, Johanna can immediately tell that something happened. "Tryouts go that well?"

"They did go pretty well, but that's not why I am so happy."

"Well then spill honey!"

"I was rounding the corner by my health class when someone ran into me. He picked everything up and then said I had beautiful eyes." Kate explained excitedly with that glossed look in her eyes.

"Did he apologize to running into my little angel?" Her mother asked pulling into the traffic.

"Yeah. He was really sweet." Kate blushed. Why was she acting like this? Kate had never felt like this before because while she had her fair share of guys ask her out, she never actually said yes to any of them. So why all of a sudden was she acting like she really wanted to go out with someone she just met?

"Well then, I like him."

"Me too mom. Me too."

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Days went by and the tryouts went extremely well. She had made it through the first two cuts with ease and even impressing most of the seniors, but she had yet to see Will again. And while she knew that the school was pretty large, it put her in a sour mood. She couldn't stop thinking about those brown eyes. So, walking into her Second Period Spanish Class, she nodded to the professor and took her seat, and right after the bell rang and she took out her notebook, the door opened and a young man walked in.

"Ahhh, you must be Richard Rogers. Welcome to Spanish One." Ms. J said warmly. "Let's see, who is the lucky oddball in this class. Ahh, Ms. Beckett. Looks like you finally have a partner." Ms. J nodded to her and with one look at the smug smile on Richard's face, she knew she was in trouble. While Will's brown eyes were truly breathtaking, they could never compare to the set of bright blue ones staring right back at her.

Making his way over to the seat open next to Beckett, he smirked the whole way. When he takes his seat, he turns to her with a smirk and says, "Rick Rodgers. Nice to meet you."

In her mind, Kate was wondering what she ever did to deserve this. All she wanted was to get through the class without having to worry about another cute boy, especially when she already had her eyes set on one with brown eyes.

Ignoring him and his bright blue eyes, she opens her notebook and begins to take notes as Ms. J begins her lecture. Feeling something brush her arm, she looks down to see a note balancing on her forearm. Picking it up she slowly opens it and reads it.

I told you my name, isn't it customary to return the favor?

Reading his note, all she could think about were the blue eyes that belonged to the author of this particular note. Oh god, snap out of it Kate! You should be thinking about brown eyes, not blue.

She chanced a glance over at him, but to her surprise she found him looking back up at the front of the classroom, so she picked up her pencil and replied trying to be strong and figuring if she was mean to him, he wouldn't take another pass at her.

Kate. But that's all you are getting. Now please leave me alone.

And so when Ms. J had turned to write down something on the board, she quickly tosses the folded up piece of paper back to him. Not even a minute had gone by when she felt the same brush against her elbow and saw that the folded up paper was once again on her desk.

Ouch. Has anyone ever told you that you have the most beautiful eyes? I have never seen eyes so hazel before.

Rick chanced a glance at the beautiful girl sitting next to him while she read the note and his smile grew even bigger when he saw the slight blush creep across her face. That was a good sign right? She was smiling and blushing?

Actually someone has. But it's not like I have to justify anything to you.

After handing back the note and hearing the bell ring, Kate gathers her things and quickly leaves the classroom heading towards the science quad. Hopefully by leaving so quickly, she could control her emotions enough not to let the little inkling get any bigger. So when Rick looks up after reading her response, she is nowhere to be found.

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Bio has come and gone, the only excitement that happened in that forty-two minutes was when she got a sneak peek at the final cuts for the Girls' Soccer Program. She had made varsity. She had made varsity as a freshman, and on top of that, she was the only freshmen.

Kate was so wrapped up in trying to text her mom the really good news that she wasn't paying attention when she rounded the corner and ran into someone. She hadn't realized it was the same corner that she had run into Will at.

Immediately looking up to apologize she saw the same set of brown eyes that she had seen after the first day of tryouts. "Will? Hi." Kate said surprised.

"Kate, how are you?" Will asks smiling down at her.

Fighting a blush, Kate says, "Really good. I made Varsity."

"Well then a congratulations is in order." Will says, making Kate blush once again as he takes a step forward and gives her a short hug.

"Thank you." Kate says looking down, about to turn and leave but stops herself and says, "Hey, do you want to go out sometime?"

"Yeah Kate. I would. How's Friday?" Will asks as Kate mentally checks her calendar for the next night.

"That works perfect." She says pulling out a note card and writing her number on it with a heart dotting the i in Katie.

"Great, thanks." Will says taking the note card, giving her a wink, and starting to turn around. "I'll call you."

Kate nods her head before heading into her fourth period class. Taking her normal seat next to one of the only friends she has, she turns to face Lanie with the biggest grin on her face.

"Girl just spill already!" Lanie says not even looking up from her notebook.

"I made varsity!" Kate practically shouted which got Lanie to look up at her.

"Oh my god! Congrats Girl!" She says giving Kate a quick hug before realizing that maybe that wasn't the only thing she wanted to share. "Okay, now what else is there? Because the look on your face is telling me that you are in dire need to share something that doesn't have to do with soccer."

"I may or may not have a date tomorrow." She says slightly blushing while running through the conversation she just had, which makes her smile grow even bigger.

"So, who's the guy?"

"His name is Will." Kate says thinking about the beautiful brown eyes.

"As in Will Sorenson?" Lanie asks concerned, "The tenth grader?"

"He's a sophomore? I didn't know." Kate says turning back in her seat to face the front of the class when he walks in. "Fuck."

"I know he's older, but I don't think your parents are going to care. They are awesome!" Lanie says still looking at Kate confused about the sudden change in mood.

"Huh, what?" She says finally looking back at her best friend.

"I said that I didn't think your parents would mind." Lanie said confused, "What's wrong?"

"Him." She says coldly looking across the room to where a young man was standing talking to Mr. S.

"Oohh who's this piece of hotness?" She asks turning back to Kate.

"The name's Rick Rodgers. Nice to meet you." A voice says behind Lanie that has a chill go up Kate's back.

"Also known as the pain in my ass." Kate mumbles under her breath as Mr. S starts his lecture.

As Rick took his seat on the opposite side of Kate, Lanie leaned over and whispered in Kate's ear, "Who is this guy?"

Kate ignored her for a couple of seconds before Lanie nudged her elbow encouraging her to speak. "Fine, he's new I think. Ms. J assigned him as my partner. He wouldn't leave me alone all period. Even after I asked him to."

"You guys know that I am sitting right here right?" Rick says with a quiet cough to get their attention.

Kate looked over at him, and rolled her eyes, a little upset about him ruining her great mood. She then went back to taking notes about the flow of blood through the heart. But even though she tried her very best to concentrate on the health lesson, those blue eyes just would not leave her mind.

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