I got this idea randomly and thought it would be interesting adding a new girl into the mix with all of the other Dillon characters. This is just getting the story started and the intro so there isn't much about the normal characters on the show, but I'll start bringing them in really really soon. Right now I'm just kind of building on my character and her family and explaining why she is in Dillon and what she is all about. Hope ya like it!
Harley zoomed into the parking lot and illegally parked next to the stands, putting her feet on the ground below her and straddling her motorcycle. She put the kickstand down and swung her leg over, taking off her helmet and shaking out her long strawberry blonde hair.
She looked around the parking lot after taking her keys and clipping them to one of the belt loops in her jeans. There weren't that many cars there yet, but she was pretty early for practice so she had plenty time to change in the locker room.
She would be lying if she wasn't feeling nervous, which was a little silly really. Harley was about to go start her first practice of preseason with the Dillon Panters girl's soccer team.
She had just moved from Philly with her family. Her father had left them when she was really young and her mom was able to take care of her and her siblings for the most part, but as they got older and got more involved in sports and after school activities that all required more money, finances got tight.
Her mother thought the only solution was to move out to Dillon, Texas, her hometown where her sister lived. Harley's Aunt Maria owned a good business in the area and could easily have her mom work for her. The kids could also go to a relatively good high school, known for it's great sports teams.
While the move really did make sense for the family, Harley couldn't say she was happy about it. She really liked Philly and loved the summers when they would go spend time at the shore in South Jersey, but in the end she had to put her family's needs first. Plus, with all the soccer she had been playing she didn't have much time to even go to the beach when they still did live on the East.
Harley seemed to be naturally athletic as her older sister, Samantha, older brother, Curtis, and younger brother, Aiden, all played sports of some kind. Curt was a great football fullback, Sam was awesome at track, and Aiden just played any sport he could play any second of the day.
Sam was a Sophomore in college and was on the track team, but wasn't as serious about running and cared more about her studies and her dream to become a nurse. Curt, who was only a year older then Harley and was a Senior in high school, seemed more relaxed about everything, and Aiden was only in seventh grade and too young to be serious. Harley was the most intense out of the Parker kids when it came to her sport.
She was a pretty modest person, but she even had to admit, she was a damn good soccer player. She had received a lot of awards back in Philly and was rumored to be the best high school player out there.
When she wasn't in season in the fall, she was playing indoor soccer in the winter with her club team and then outdoor in the spring. In the summer she would try playing in programs that dealt with development for the USA National team, but she hadn't been officially selected to any of the teams yet since even the training teams, like U-19, and U-23 were still too old for her.
She always had planned on using her soccer to get her into a good college.
When the high schools down in Texas had heard wind of her arrival, many tried to grab her and almost recruit her.
She thought this was pretty weird since she always was under the impression that high school football in Texas was the end all be all, but many towns wanted to start boosting up their girls sports team to try to get more attention to other sports, make more money, and seem less sexist.
They didn't really say that last reason to Harley but anyone could guess. What modern town wants to be accused of being sexist these days and giving a bad rep to the whole state?
The family as a whole decided to send both Curt and Harley to Dillon since they had a great football team and some McGarity guy who was a supposedly a huge booster for Dillon sports hounded them to send their kids there.
Which is why Harley was still standing where she was, helmet clutched in her hands, with a Nike sports bad slung across her back. She wasn't as nervous about the soccer part per say, but more about the getting to know a new team part.
Harley wasn't shy at all after you got to know her, but she was always apprehensive about meeting new people. She wasn't a huge people person and didn't like crowds or anything like that. She was more of a like to be by yourself type.
Suddenly, a hand lightly came down on her shoulder, causing her to jump a little as she quickly looked over to see who had snuck up behind her.
A girl with brown hair pulled up into a pony-tail wearing dark jeans, cowboy boots, and a teal short sleeve shirt was smiling at her and said, "Hey! Are you the new girl? I didn't recognize you so I'm assuming you are. Small town and everything."
She had a pretty heavy southern accent and seemed to have the classic Texas charm. Harley cleared her throat nervously and said, "Yeah, yeah um, I'm Harley, and uh yeah, guess I'm the new girl," She said with a slight smile.
The other girl laughed a little and said, "Well I'm Aubrey and the whole team has been talking about you, feel like we've been waiting you to come forever," Aubrey noticed Harley's face got a little red and quickly said, "but hey, we're super excited to have ya'll on the team, so don't look so nervous! Where are you from by the way, you have a weird accent?"
Harley relaxed a little and replied, "Oh Philly, I've gotten that a lot since we moved," she shook her head up and down, used to the question and looked at the ground, "I think it's something with the a's." She looked back up chuckling a little and feeling more at ease. At least the first girl she met seemed pretty nice.
"Well it's refreshing," Aubrey replied with a smile, "lets go to the locker room and get suited up for practice and have you meet the other girls. I'm just warning you, you are in for one hell of a ride here in Dillon." Aubrey began walking backwards to the locker room with a devious look. Harley laughed a little and began following her. If only she really took the words to heart.
Harley made her way out of the locker room complex at Dillon talking to some of her teammates after a long hard practice.
They had been going through pre season for about a week now and still had two more weeks left of two a days before they started school.
While they were all tired and pretty sore by now, they were relieved to have completed at least one week of pre season, with only one practice on Saturday and Sunday off.
While Harley was still getting to know the girls on the team, she didn't feel as shy anymore since they were all pretty accepting and easy to get along with. Maybe it was that southern hospitality, who knows.
The team was showing how close their chemistry was growing by hanging out most nights after practice or on the weekends when they weren't together. Their assistant coach, Jane Barby, or Coach Barbs as the team called her, liked to stress the fact that whether they liked it or not, they were a family and had a stronger bond then most other friends did.
Even though some of the girls might not have even talked to each other if they weren't on the team together, there was a certain feeling of every girl has everyone's back no matter what.
After going through every grueling practice and drill together, it made sense that even if you might not like someone on your team that much, you're still going to be there for them.
Harley was walking along with Jess, a relatively tall, at least compared to short 5'2" Harley, brunette girl with great skin and a down to earth personality. Harley had become fast friends with her and Aubrey after the first week of practice.
Harley quickly filled in the position of center mid based on her skills of distributing the ball and her speed, and Jess played right mid along side her, so it was natural they became close.
Aubrey proved to be a pretty good center forward with her quick feet and bursts of speed, so Harley also had to interact with her on the field a lot.
Harley was a little worried how the team was going to react to a new girl coming in and filling an important role and starting position but it seemed as if they were more excited to have someone who was as skilled as she was on the team.
Harley was especially worried what they were going to think of her after she told the team one night after practice about her anger problem.
Harley had a quick vicious blinding red-hot temper that caused her to get in many fights and a lot of trouble with the school district. As a result she had listed on her permanent record all of the fights and charges she had put against her along and a diagnosis of anger management.
This wasn't something she was proud of at all and knew it would cause her problems getting a job and a college, but she had taken lots of anger management classes back in Philly and made many improvements.
She pretty much had her anger under control by the time they had moved, but now being in a new school and town with new people to light her fuse, she was a little worried she would start acting up again.
She felt the team had a right to know, as legally the coaches already knew when she tried out for the team and they saw her record. Besides the team and the officials of the school that knew about her problem, she didn't want anyone else in the small town finding out.
She was already different enough from everyone by being a "Yankee", why add on angry to the stereotype?
The team surprisingly took it well and promised not to tell and to help her if they ever thought she was going to act out of her anger or if she started to get mad.
In the end Harley realized she shouldn't have been so worried about telling them, every teenager is bound to have some problem or quirks about them that they had to deal with.
As Jess and Harley made it over to Harley's truck, she had to leave the motorcycle at home today because she also had to take Curt to his football practice, they looked over to the football locker room, seeing the guys strolling out looking fresh from their showers.
Harley had heard a lot about the football team in the short few weeks of living in Dillon, from her brother and from her team.
Basically, the whole town revolved around the team and the players and their games on Friday nights under the lights.
They got special treatment from all over town, ranging from free meals to getting sold alcohol even though they were underage, and having their schoolwork done for them by something called rally girls.
Harley thought this was all a little much, but she had heard Texas high school football was nuts so she couldn't be too surprised.
One thing was for sure, she was not going to get involved with any of the players and deal with that kind of drama that for sure would come with it.
Curt finally walked out of the locker room, laughing at someone one of his teammates who had longer brown hair had said. Harley hadn't really met any of the players yet since normally she didn't drive Curt to practice and she had been spending all of her time with the team.
Even though Curt was older, he didn't have enough money for himself to buy a car while Harley, who was obsessed with going fast and loved driving had a motorcycle and an old Jeep.
The Jeep was used and not that nice, but she figured it was practical to have a car just incase. The motorcycle was her prized possession and she took it to practice most days, but today the football and soccer practice happened to coincide so she helped Curt out by giving him a lift.
"I didn't know you're brother was friends with Riggins," Jess said giving a sidelong look over at Curt and the guy with long hair walking over.
"I didn't know who Riggins even was before you said that," Harley replied smirking and shrugging a shoulder, gripping her sports bag that was slung across her other shoulder.
"Well let's just say he's your typical heartthrob, badass, football jock, teenage boy who likes to take advantage of the rally girls and the free beer," Jess said looking back over at Harley and smiling, "to be honest he is good looking, but I wouldn't want to do anything with him for fear of catching something," she continued, her expression changing to something of disgust.
As they got closer and Harley got a better look at him, she narrowed her eyes, checking him out. Jess was right, he was a good looking guy. Really good looking. But sensing what kind of guy he was from Jess' description she knew to stay away. That didn't mean she wouldn't be nice or be friendly or anything, just not anything more.
They finally reached the girls and Tim looked immediately at her with interest. It wasn't everyday you saw a new pretty girl in Dillon.
"Oh, shit, yeah Rigs you haven't met my sister before. Tim this is my younger sister Harley, Harley this is Tim," Curt said gesturing with his head over at her, "I actually think you guys are in the same grade."
Harley held out her hand and said, "nice to meet you."
Tim looked down at her hand and brought out his and nodded, as his hand shook her's he looked up and asked, "Junior?"
Harley nodded her head and said, "Yup," dropping his hand down and grabbing onto her bag again looking over at her brother, "you wanna head out, we gotta go get Aiden from the pool."
Tim took the opportunity when she wasn't looking at him to check her out. She was a short, petite girl, but he could tell she was in good shape from her toned arms that were showing from her tank top and the shape of her legs from her tight skinny jeans. She didn't have a huge rack or anything, but the size fit her form nicely. It also was obvious she had a pretty toned stomach from the little strip of skin that showed from her tank, and Tim could already tell she had a nice ass from where she was standing. She had strawberry blonde hair, that looked pretty long, but he couldn't really tell because it was pulled back. She also had a nice golden tan and some freckles spotted across her face from the sun.
All in all, Curt had a looker for a sister.
Tim missed what Curt had said because of his checking out Harley, but assumed he agreed to leave because Curt slapped his hand on his shoulder and said, "alright Rigs, well I guess I'll see ya later, remember what I said about the car."
Tim looked at Curt and nodded his head and slowly said, "yeah I'll let you know."
Curt let go of his hand and Harley started making her way around the car and looked over at Curt then at Tim with her eyebrow raised and asked, "car?"
"Yeah, Tim said he knows where I can get a deal for a pretty cheap car so I don't have to be bumming rides of you and other people all the time," Curt replied opening the passenger door.
Harley snorted and said, "yeah I'll believe it when I see it when you finally get a car."
Tim got a full view of her backside as she walked around to the driver side and his assumption about her butt was completely confirmed. Tim wasn't usually an ass man, but he could be converted after seeing that.
Harley got into the driver side and called out to Jess saying she would see her later and shouted over to Tim across Curt, "nice meeting you again."
Tim was a little surprised and said, "yeah, yeah you too," and nodded over at Curt before the siblings drove out of the parking lot.
He looked over at Jess and she was looking at him with her arms crossed over her chest shaking her head.
"What?" He asked without any emotion.
"You know what. I saw what you were looking at. And don't even," Jess said narrowing her eyes and then turning around walking away from him. Looks as if h wasn't too sly with checking out the new girl.
He began to walk over to his own car and thought how he probably wouldn't actually try anything. She was the younger sister of one of his teammates and even though Curt was knew, he was a good player and a pretty cool guy. Also, Tim had enough drama with Lyla and that whole mess to deal with.
Might as well make things easier for him and just keep messing around the with rally girls no strings attached.
But that didn't mean he couldn't at least mess around with the new girl at all. She was new to Dillon, and who better to get show her what Dillon was like then him?
He smirked to himself and got in his car, driving away and thinking how fun this new school year was actually going to be.