A/N: Hey everyone! I know I have 3 stories that are up right now, 2 of which are being updately regularly! This has been on my mind for a very long time! I just needed to write and get this idea out there. I hope you enjoy, i'll probably update this regularly, who knows?
Disclaimer: I do not own SoN
CH.1- Take a break
"One more!" I shout at my coach. Here I am. This is my home. Walking onto this pitch, this is what I want to do every single day up until I graduate from this place. This is my life. This is my dream, same shit, different day.
"Are you sure? You've been at this for an extra two hours Spencer! Take a break or something!" My couch shouts to me. Practice ended two hours ago. It was a long practice full of conditioning and weight lifting before coming out onto the pitch and doing some field work.
"Yes! I need to work on PK's!" I shout back, before I clap my hands and signal my coach to go again. I'm standing in front of the goal line.
My name is Spencer Carlin and I am busting my ass as a goal keeper for the UCLA Bruins women's soccer team. I was the best goalkeeper at my high school. My dream is to be a professional athlete and I'll work hard each day to make sure that happens.
I watch every move my coach makes before he kicks the ball. I take a deep breath and wait until he kicks the ball as hard as he possibly can. I'm watching the ball come in, for a second, everything seems like it's in slow motion. I watch as the ball curves. It looks as if it's going to my right but quickly curves to my left. I'm patient enough to let the ball come in a little farther before jumping to my left with my hands out, diving and smacking the ball away. Once I feel my hands hit the ball and push it away, I look to the ground and see how far above ground I am. I close my eyes and let myself hit the ground and tumble until I can control myself enough to get up.
"That was perfect Spencer!" I hear my coach yell. I hold my hand up into the hair to give him a thumbs up before I pick myself off the ground.
"One more!" I shout again to him.
"Spencer come on, we got to go!" I look to my right and see my teammate Ashlyn.
"After this one!" I shout to her.
"You said that an hour ago!" She shouts back.
"I mean it this time." I yell back, I hold one finger to my couch to tell him one more.
"Ashlyn just let her before she throws a fit!" My coach yells to her.
"Ugh, fine but hurry it up!" She yells, setting our bags down.
"Ready!" I yell to my couch. I wait until he kicks another ball to me. When the right time comes, I jump towards the top right corner of the goal and block the shot. I groan as I see how high I jumped and how far I have to fall. I close my eyes and let myself take another tumble before getting up.
"Finally!" Ashlyn shouts. I get off the ground and walk towards her, taking off my goalkeeper gloves.
"Shut up," I laugh, throwing them at her.
"Dude what the hell?! Do you realize how bad your gloves smell?" She asks, catching them then dropping them into my bag.
"That's what you get for rushing." I respond. "Hold on, going to help coach get the balls." It took about five minutes to run and grab the balls and put them back in the ball bag.
"You did great today kiddo." Coach Kinna says, patting my back.
"Thanks for working extra with me." I smile as we walk towards Ashlyn.
"No problem, it's why I wanted you on this team." She smiles.
"Thank you, I'll catch you later Coach." I wave bye then pick up my duffle bag when we reach Ashlyn.
"Finally Carlin, Ali is waiting for us with that blind date of yours." Ashlyn says wrapping her arm around my shoulders. "Bye coach!" She yells.
"Harris, I told you no more blind dates." I groan, pinching the bridge of my nose as we walk to the locker room.
"Too bad, Ali kept bugging me to get you to go on this date so you're going." She says.
"Are you two like, every going to get together or what?" We walk into the locker room, I grab a clean towel off the racks and go to my locker.
"I want the timing to be right. I don't want to jump into things quickly with her Spence." Ashlyn sighs, leaning against a locker.
"Understandable but um, you two have been closer than ever since I don't know like, freshman year. You two hit it off the first day you even met. Everyone sees you two together, we're all just waiting for the one and only Ashlyn Harris and one and only Alexandra Krieger to try have a happily ever after!" I laugh, nudging her before grabbing my clean clothes from my bag and walking towards the showers.
"Nice to know my teammates are shipping us. Other than that, I'm scared ok? I don't want to ruin anything, but I know I've fallen crazy in love with her." Ashlyn shouts out to me.
"Then suck it up and talk to her Ashlyn! You of all people should know every freakin flirtatious thing she does. Everyone notices the vibes you two send off to each other! Just talk!" I shout back as I get into the showers.
"We'll finish this later, I'll be outside!" She shouts. I hear the locker room door close. I close my eyes and let the water relax my muscles.
15 minutes later, I was dressed up in sweats and a cut off with my hair in a bun. I walked out to Ashlyn and studied her face.
"What?" I ask, adjusting my bag strap.
"Alright, we are going to our place and fixing your outfit because that outfit," Ashlyn moves her finger up and down, "is not cutting it." I groan as she grabs my arm and starts pulling me to my car.
Luckily, Ashlyn and I and a few of our roommates live in one house that's cheap enough and well enough quality for us to all afford. Also, it's even better due to the fact that it's like 15 minutes away from the soccer stadium.
"I seriously can't believe you were planning on wearing a cut off and sweats to the date. Trust me, hair was good, outfit was a big no." Ash comments while I stand in front of the mirror.
"Will you just shut up and help me with my bow tie?" I ask, my irritation level is rising.
"Calm yourself." She says, walking over to me. I clench my jaw when Ashlyn smacks my hands away. I try to wait patiently as she fixes my bow tie then my shirt collar then vest.
"Tada! Perfecto" She says, kissing her fingers before opening her hand.
"Thank you." I say, letting go of my fists I've made. It's sort of habit that I do that. No, I didn't want to hit Ashlyn. I just do that every time I'm angry or upset or irritated.
I turn to face the mirror and look at my outfit. I have on a white button down dress shirt with a red bow tie and sleeves fooled up. Not only that, I have on dark navy blue skinny jeans on with a black vest that's not buttoned. I look down and make sure my shoes look good; I fell in love with these boots the second I bought them. They're Steve Madden Chukka boots.
"Earth to Carlin, you look great." Ashlyn says while checking her watch. "Damn it Spence, we're going to be late."
"You owe me for this." I groan, grabbing my phone and wallet as we leave.
Ashlyn got all crazy with the driving. She couldn't stay away from her love bug for too long. We ended up having to meet Ali and my date whose name I do not know, at this Chinese restaurant. We walked up to door and I pulled it open and held it for Ashlyn to walk in first before I walk in.
"Ashlyn!" I hear Ash's name being called out, I look over to see Ali waving us over to the table.
"Ali, I love you, you got a booth." I said, hugging her when we reach the table.
"I know you Spence." She laughs, "You're picky as shit." She laughs a little harder with a serious tone as well.
"Yes I know, I'm sorry." I say, I look to my right to see a girl who looks very familiar. "Hey, you must be my date." I say, sitting down across from her.
"Yup, you are?" She asks, holding out her hand.
"Spencer Carlin." I answer, shaking her hand.
"That's a unique name for a girl. I'm Tegan Stone" She tells me, letting go of my hand to sit down.
I moved to sit on the inside of the booth so I'm across from Tegan. Once I sat down, Ashlyn sat next to me so she was across from Ali.
"So how do you three know each other?" Tegan asks, motioning towards Ash, Ali and I.
"For starters, hi I'm Ashlyn Harris." Ashlyn waves then smiles.
"Ok well on that note, Ash and I are goalkeepers for the soccer team and Ali is a defender for the soccer team so we are all In the back line. We met freshman year when we started playing so soccer." I explain with a chuckle.
"That's awesome; I hear the women's soccer team is really good." Tegan says.
"Not to be biased but, yeah we're pretty awesome." Ashlyn says.
"Ashlyn will you just focus on your date please?" I ask, smacking her arm.
"Ow! Dude Ali isn't my date, we're here for you." She says and the second those words leave her lips, Ali's face drops. Unfortunately, before Ashlyn looked over to her, Ali immediately wiped the look off her face. It was gone before you even saw it, but I noticed it. I got hawk eyes.
"You're an idiot." I deadpan at Ashlyn. "Just, focus on Ali." I say, nudging her then winking so no one but her could see.
"Oh right! Anyways, sorry and continue." Ashlyn says to Tegan then turns her attention. Tegan has blonde hair and bright blue eyes, she basically looks like me without looking like me? If that makes sense.
The rest of the night we all told stories of one another and our life. It was a fun night which is shocking because I hate that Ali always sets me up on blind dates so I never enjoy them as much. We all got along pretty well and from what I've learned; Tegan would fit in very well with us soccer girls.
"As I was saying, Ashlyn had some sort of stomach flu and Ali was helping us practice our goalkeeping so she kicks the ball super hard and it goes straight at Ashlyn's stomach. I mean luckily, she caught it so she sort of lessened the blow a bit but it was still super killer and the second she dropped the ball. Ashlyn ran over to the side of the net and blew chunks on the field. It was so gross but so funny. Obviously we helped her because we felt bad from laughing but it sucked." I tell my story I have of my best friend that causes all of us but Ashlyn to laugh.
"Hey Tegan, did I tell you about the time Spencer got hit in the face by a ball so hard she ended up crying for her mom?" Ashlyn says, catching Tegan's attention.
"No I do not believe you have told me that story yet." She replies, raising her eyebrows.
"It was I think junior year, during practice and we were having a scrimmage game. It was blue versus red and I was the blue team goalkeeper and Spencer was the red. Our friend Tobin Heath was coming up and our other friend Alex noticed she was running up on Spencer's right side of the goal. Alex was thinking, why not? It's a good play minus well take the chance. So Alex kicked it over to Tobin and Tobin just bombs and I mean really hard like break your nose hard towards Spencer." Ashlyn starts to explain.
"I hate you, you're the worst friend ever." I say with a chuckle.
"All you see is Spencer dive to block the ball. Kudos to the fact she blocked it but sucky to the fact she blocked it with her face. So the ball hits Spencer in the face and the second Spencer hits the ground, her hands are against her face as she rolls around groaning and crying. I could hear her yell. 'Fucking A! I need my mom! She's a doctor! Where's my mom?!' The back line for her team check on her and the coaches and trainer rush over and check on her, when they got her to calm down we saw that her eye was starting to get puffy and what not. Luckily she didn't get a concussion but she was sporting a black eye for a while. After that we've made fun of her since." Ashlyn finishes. Now everyone but me is laughing.
"You suck you know that?" I say, smacking Ashlyn's arm. The four of us are walking Tegan home from the restaurant since she only leaves right down the street.
"Aww, is Spencer going to cry for her mommy?" Ali teases me with a smirk.
"Don't judge me ok,that was like the worst pain I've ever experienced when it comes to getting hit in the face. Some girls haven't even hit me that hard." I confess.
"Oh so girls have hit you in the face?" Tegan asks, quirking an eyebrow.
"Maybe." I chuckle out nervously, rubbing the back of my neck.
"That sucks. Why'd you get hit?" She asks.
"I used to be an asshole." I laugh.
"Are you still an asshole?"
"You tell me, have I been one at all tonight?" I ask nicely
"Well." Ashlyn tries to butt in.
"Besides to Ashlyn." I quickly cut her off.
"Hmm, I guess you haven't been then if we're excluding Ashlyn from the equation." Tegan laughs.
"Great! There's your answer!" I say, holding my right arm for her to grab. I smile then look over to Ashlyn and Ali. Ali is holding onto Ashlyn's arm as they walk and talk. They're stuck in their own little world.
"Do you think they are ever going to notice that they have a thing going on?" Tegan whispers to me.
"Hopefully." I chuckle, looking to her.
"Do you think we have a thing going on?" She asks with a smile then bites her lip.
"Id say there's a chance." I smile then continue to walk.
The rest of the time we just walked and talked. We continued to tell stories and have a night full of laughter. When we got to Tegan's place I walked her to the door while Ashlyn and Ali stayed back.
"I surprisingly had a very good night tonight." I admit.
"That was a little assholey." Tegan says with a serious tone.
"I'm sorry, let me rephrase that." I giggle then clear my throat, "Ali is always trying to set me up on blind dates. I usually don't enjoy them but tonight I did so thank you for a good night." I smile shyly.
"I was kidding." She says, stepping closer. "Thank you for a good night as well." I suck in my breath when Tegan leans in and kisses my cheek. "I don't kiss on the first date but a kiss on the cheek is an acceptation." She whispers in my ear before pulling back.
"Thank you." I respond, letting out the breath I was holding in.
"Goodnight Ashlyn, Goodnight Ali!" Tegan shouts out to my best friends.
"Goodnight!" They shout back in unison.
"Goodnight Spencer" She waves as she walks backwards to her door.
"Goodnight." I smile wide and wave back, making sure she gets inside before I turn to walk back to my friends. I stop when I see them moving a bit closer each second. I smirk and cross my arms then lean against the wall to let them have some space.
Ashlyn and Ali's faces are like only a few inches apart to where they just have to lean in a little and their lips will meet. I shake my head getting impatient. This causes me to quietly walk around them, chuckling to myself when they don't notice me. I walk a little farther away and lean against the railing of stairs at a random house.
As I'm waiting, I pull my phone out and turn the data on phone back on. Right away messages and notifications come pouring in. I laugh to myself at everything I'm getting. I start scrolling through my favorite app, tumblr until I'm distracted by a very angelic voice.
"Excuse me but, what are you doing in front of my house?" By the tone, I can tell it's a girl. I look up to see a brown curly haired girl with beautiful big brown eyes staring weirdly at me.
"Oh um, I'm waiting for my friends." I say, pointing over to Ashlyn and Ali who are now kissing. "Score one for Ashlyn. Score one for Ali." I say with a smirk.
"What?" The girl speaks up.
"Huh?" I ask, turning back to her then focus again. "Oh sorry, um I'm waiting for those two girls over there. I just had a date who lives a couple doors down and they got distracted so I walked over here to give them space." I explain.
"Didn't need your life story but thanks for telling me." She says with an attitude.
"Wow, ok." I scoff, crossing my arms. "You're a feisty one, can I get your name?"
"I'd rather be unknown to you. Until then, can you like leave?" She asks,
"Once you realize how much of an ass you sound like." I spit back. It takes the girl a few seconds to think.
"Damn it," She shakes her head and pinches the bridge of her nose.
"Uhh."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be a bitch I just had a really tough and horrible day. Sorry for taking some of it out on you." She apologizes.
"Its fine, you can make it up over some coffee?" I ask.
"Um thanks but no thanks. I'm a little bit too busy lately." She answers. Rejected, that's pretty awesome.
"That or you really just don't want to go on a coffee date." I say.
"Maybe I really do just want to be unknown to you." She responds.
"Trust me; we'll end up here again one day." I say, pushing off the railing. I walk past her and wait a minute for Ali and Ashlyn to catch up.
"Ready?" Ali asks, walking up with her arm looped with Ashlyn's.
"Yup," I nod, walking off with my friends, I turn around to face the girl who is now watching us walk away. "I'll see you soon mystery girl." I wave then turn back around.
"Who was that?" Ali asks, breaking the silence.
"Unknown." I reply with a smile.
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