Chapter 1: The Girl Who Used To Be, Kimberley Wilson
"She Grew Up Nice"
The Wilson family was moving boxes inside their new house in a small town called Dillon. After years of visiting and spending their summers here Mrs. Wilson finally decided to move her children and herself closer to her side of the family, especially closer to her mother, who was getting old. Kimberley Wilson had just grabbed a medium-sized box and went inside to put it in her new room, when she came back outside she saw some guys walking towards her brother, Brian. She instantly recognized them: Tim Riggins, Aaron Carters, and Lane Wilinsky
"Ey yo, what's up Bri?" Lane asked cheerfully with a big smile on his face.
Tim Riggins just nodded to his friend without saying anything.
"Need a hand?" Aaron offered, catching a box in the nick of time before Brian dropped it
"Yeah, sure man." Brian answered, distracted.
"Kimmy!" A girl yelled out the window of a car that was still moving.
Kimberly looked to her left and smiled when she saw her best friend, Kate, waving frantically at her. She also moved here just 6 months ago and was willing to show Kim around Dillon, (since she hasn't visited for a while.) Kate and Kimberly have been best friends since they were born, they had a lot of things in common, they were always there for one another, they did everything together, understood eachother, and are practically like twin sisters. Except Kate was a couple of months older. Both of their moms were also best friends and grew up together in Dillon.
"Hey girly, what's up?" Kim asked, meeting her halfway.
"The sky, duh?" Kate answered, then laughed.
"Lameee!" Kim fired at her, making a face.
Both girls looked at eachother and laughed loudly then started grabbing boxes to put away inside.
The boys witnessed their commotion and just looked at them for a while as they started to walk away carrying heavy boxes.
"Hey guys." Kate said to them when they passed by, while Kim just smiled sweetly at them.
"Hey" Brian said shyly gazing at Kate as both girls walked away while the rest just nodded towards the girls.
"Whoa, who's that girl with Kate, man?" Aaron asked curiously his head quickly turning towards the guys for an answer.
"Yeah, I haven't seen her around. She's hot!" Lane added looking back at the door where both girls had disappeared to.
"Dude, she just moved her. And she happens to be my sister, dumbass!" Brian said protectively.
Both Lane and Aaron's face turned red but smiled guiltily. Tim just snickered, rolled his eyes, and shook his head at them.
"Stupid." He whispered, grabbing a box.
"Shut up Riggins. I bet you were thinking the same damn thing." Lane snapped.
Tim decided to ignore this.
"Well, Riggins, do you?" Aaron asked, interested in what he had to say about Brian's little sister.
Tim looked at each of them knowing he couldn't ignore the question.
"Well..." He started, hesitating.
"I mean, s-she grew up nice. I guess." As soon as he said those words he quickly turned, grabbed a random box, and walked away before Brian had anything else to say.
"Psh. 'I guess'" Aaron mimicked.
"'Grew up nice', my ass." Lane disclosed.
When Kim and Kate got inside the house they noticed the hard-work that Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Saunders and Kimberley's sisters had put in in decorating the house. They got most of the house done: living room, dining room, kitchen, and even the bathrooms. All that was left to do were the bedrooms.
"Wow you guys, job well done!" Kim said, looking around in approval.
"Yeah, it's great!" Kate chimed in.
A few minutes later the guys crowded the room, putting down boxes.
"That goes over there, and you can put that over here. Thank you, dearies!" Mrs. Wilson said joyfully.
"Well, that's about it, guys. The Wilson family just have to decorate their own bedrooms and then we're good." She sighed.
"FINALLY!" Kim exaggerated, coming to view from behind them. Kate, just right behind her, giggled.
"Oh hey, Annie and I are going to the store. Do any of you want anything?"
"You know what sounds good right now?" Lana asked.
"PIZZA!" Kristen and Kim yelled excitedly at the same time.
"Oh yeaaah!" Brian smiled, nodding in agreement.
All the girls were in Kristen's room chatting away, while the guys stayed in the living room, hooking up the tv. When Kimberley went to get some sodas, Aaron looked up at her from the couch, he noticed he wasn't the only one checking her out. When he turned his head to see if Tim was done hooking up the tv already he saw Tim squinting his eyes seductively and observing her with interest, obviously distracted by the sight of her. He nudged Lane to get his attention and looked from Tim to Kim then back to Lane, smiling deviously.
"Dude, I still can't believe that's Kim," Aaron said quietly as Kim walked down the hallway back to Kristen's room. "Football playing, dirt throwing Kim." He added slowly staring into space remembering how Kim used to be.
Tim scoffed. "Don't forget: aggressive." They laughed. Now it was Tim who was staring into space remembering the once a upon a time memories he had with Kim. He knew that they were really close back then when they were kids but hadn't realized how extremely close they used to be until that moment. He was saddened by the fact that they drifted away and acted as if they were strangers towards eachother, which in a way they kind of were due to Kim's few visits to Odessa over the last few years.
"So Rigs, what did you mean by 's-she grew up nice'" Lane asked, imitating Tim from earlier. Aaron tried not to laugh, and Brian had a serious face on.
"You know what I meant." Tim answered plainly shaking his head and coming back to reality.
"No, I didn't know what you meant. Please, enlighten me. No, us. Please enlighten us." Lane smirked pointing to Brian and Aaron making sure they too were listening.
Tim sighed in annoyance, he was hoping to avoid this."She grew up nice, Wilinsky, isn't that enough? What else do you want me to say about it?"
"Well, you can explain by what you mean by it. I mean, that's not very descriptive. You know?" Aaron acknowledged.
Tim sighed in annoyance for the second time that day.
"I can explain that!" Lane smirked, sitting up, and raising his hand.
"Please, Lane, enlighten us." Brian said speaking up.
"Glad to," Lane answered. "Well, I don't know about you guys but I almost didn't recognize Kim today -"
"You didn't recognize her, dumbass." Brian interrupted.
"Anywaaays," Lane continued, giving Brian a look. "She grew up nice in so many levels, if you get what I'm saying, huh?" Nudging Aaron and looked at Tim but went serious after seeing Brian's face. Brian was squinting his eyes at him, arms cross and looked as if he was going to murder Lane in his sleep. Lane stopped talking.
"Uh - well, what I mean by it, Wilinsky, is that she's different now somehow. It's like she's not the Kim we remember, you know? She's all...girl now." Tim shrugged, trying to break the awkwardness that Lane had started. "Not only that, but she's real pretty, too." He added in a whisper-like tone, which you could barely hear, except for the four guys sprawled in the living room talking about the girl who used to be, Kimberley Wilson.