Jess kicked the ball. It went into the net. She smiled. Jules kicked the ball next. The same thing happened. Practice never bored them though. Their dreams had finally come true. Jules even had a new American boyfriend while Jess had given her heart to her ex-coach back in England, Joe. Not that her parents knew, as far as they were concerned she was engaged to her best friend Tony.

"What are you going to do?" Jules asked as she changed into some casual clothes.

"I don't know, my parents are probably going to throw us an engagement party when I get back", I said as I bit my lip.

Jules grabbed the soccer ball and the two girls grabbed their respective gear before leaving practice. College had been going good for them so far, the two girls had received good grades throughout the year and were both excited to go back to England to see their families.

They got back to their room on campus about half an hour later and Jess immediately checked her email. Nothing, she sighed, she shouldn't have such high expectations, it was probably early morning over there and she had sent the message just before practice.

"So, what do you want for lunch?" Jules asked as she scanned the fridge for food.

"My turn to cook something, you're getting Indian food today, besides, my mum will be highly disappointed if she finds out I didn't cook any Indian meals while I was here", Jess said as she made her way to the kitchen.

"Do you have everything you need?"

"Yeah, this is enough", jess said as she pulled the ingrediants out of the fridge.

Jules turned on the television which was set to WUSA, this had become a permanent fixture. She watched it while Jess cooked their lunch. They were good players and Jules was hoping to one day join one of the teams whilst Jess had her heart set on going back to England to join their new Pro team.

The phone rang in the midst of this and Jess quickly answered it. It was Tony he called to confirm that Jess' assumption was correct, her family would be throwing her an engagement party.

"What am I going to tell Joe?"

"You're smart, you'll think of something, anyway I have to go, Pinky's cooking lunch God help the poor thing, she burnt breakfast so here's hoping we can actually eat something for lunch", He told her, "See ya."

"Okay, bye", Jess said and she clicked the end call button. What if she actually had to marry Tony?

Jess finished cooking lunch and they both eagerly ate it, practice was a real energy drainer. Jess got up from her seat after she ate to check her email, sure enough, Joe had replied.

Hey Jess,

Congrats on your win on Monday! I hope everything's going well. Tony told me about your engagement party. Yeah, I know the next team you're up against, they're quite mean at times and really up themselves, they should be a challenge but you'll have a good game. My surgery on my knee went well, the doctors said I should be able to play again soon, don't know whether or not they're right I guess I'll find out soon. Stay safe.

-Joe

"You coming tonight?" Jules asked as she poured herself a glass of juice.

"To where?"

"We're going clubbing remember?"

"Oh, okay, yeah I'll come", Jess told her.

Jess dressed in a light blue knee length skirt and a short light pink top. She did her hair similar to what she had done the night she had gone clubbing in Germany. She grabbed her makeup and made a dash to the bathroom before Jules could and applied it carefully, she had recently bought dark green contacts and put them on her eyes, with some hot pink lipstick applied lightly then covered in a layer of lipgloss and some eye makeup and foundation she was ready to go. The bright colours contrasted nicely to her dark skin and brought out the colour of the green contacts she was wearing.

"Jess, you look gorgeous!"

"Thanks Jules, you didn't scrub up too bad yourself either", Jess remarked.

"I wonder what Joe's reaction would be if you went out clubbing wearing this without him there", Jules smirked.

"He'd be fine with it", Jess stated as she folded her arms.

"Why don't we find out?" Jules said as she brought her phone out and went to go take a picture to send to Joe but Jess turned on her ninja skills and quickly went and grabbed the phone out of her hand.

"Why don't we just go?" Jess asked with a smirk, "if you're lucky you might even get your phone back."

"You're so unreasonable", Jules pouted and Jess broke out laughing, "What?"

"Do you know how ridiculous you look?" Jess asked between laughs.

"Fine, Lets go", Jules said smiling and dragging her laughing friend out the door.

They arrived at the club and met some members of the team they were pitted against for their next game. The captain greeted them but there was still hostility lingering through the air, some of the blonde Americans looked upon Jess with disdain, maybe because she was Indian.

"So, you think you can beat us?" Their captain asked as she sipped a glass with her small finger raised.

"Easy", Jules said nonchalantly and brushed her hair behind her ear with her hand.

"What about you, currymuncher?" The girl asked, allowing the racial insult to just slide of her tongue, just adding coal to the fire.

"Oh yeah, you dumb blonde Americans won't even know what hit you", Jess said and walked off, she hated it when people insulted her race, that had been the final straw for her back in England, causing her to finally allow tears to shed, she refused to let it happen this time, she didn't want to appear weak in front of the tea that they had to beat at their next game.