Chapter 4: A Lap A Minute

Kimi woke up, her head feeling heavy. Something was on her mind, but she couldn't think what of. Her alarm buzzed in her ear. Ugh.

Kimi blinked her eyes open. The sunlight was filtering through the pink shades in her room. She glanced at the clock.

9:17.

Soccer practice was at nine-thirty.

"Shit," she muttered, throwing her covers off. Suddenly she felt exposed. Looking down she realized she was only in her panties. Then, everything from last night started to come back to her.

The date. The Carnival. The talk with Tommy. Her desperation to get over him. Her inviting Phil into her house. Then to her room. Then inviting him to spend the night…

"Oh my God," Kimi wheezed, wanting to hyper ventilate. She quickly pulled open her drawer and pulled out he inhaler. She clicked the top and took a deep inhale. Almost no one but her family knew she used one. It was one of her little secrets that she kept to herself.

Now she had another one to keep.

"Shit," she breathed, chest no longer tightening. "When did he even leave?" She pondered.

Kimi threw the inhaler back into her drawer and began to dress hastily into her uniform. Now what was she going to do? Did Phil think they were together? Were they together. Did she want thi?

No. She didn't.

She wanted Tommy.

Kimi thought she might cry. Why was she so stupid? Did she need to make things so difficult for herself?

Not only that, something else was bothering her in the back of her mind. What was it?

She didn't have time to think about it. Kimi quickly grabbed her duffel bag out of the closet and rushed downstairs into the kitchen to fill up her water bottle. Just as she turned the tap on, Chuckie walked in, wearing the same clothes she had seen him in last night.

They both stared at each other blankly for a moment. Chuckie's cheeks turned beet red and he went to the refrigerator.

"So," Kimi started. "Have fun last night?"

"Don't start teasing me!" Chuckie said, pulling out some milk. "And before you say anything, no we didn't do anything."

Kimi couldn't help but smiling devishly. "Oh, really now?"

"You know Emily," he said. "She wouldn't do that! Neither would I in fact, pervert."

Kimi actually laughed despite herself at the moment. "Okay I'm the pervert."

"Seriously," he continued. "We just talked about astronomic and played videogames last night."

Kimi finished filling her bottle and screwed the cap on. "Yea, yea, I believe you, nerd."

Chuckie began pouring himself a bowl of Captain Crunch, his favorite for ten years straight. "So how was your date with Phil? You two fall magically in love or anything?"

Immediately Kimi felt uncomfortable. "No, and I don't want to talk about it."

"Did something happen?"

Kimi huffed and stuck her bottle in her bag. She was so going to be late. "No!"

Chuckie chuckled. "Haha, okay, Kimi. I hope you two used protection," he joked.

"Just shut the hell up Chuckie!" She yelled, storming out of the kitchen, leaving Chuckie unfairly confused and hurt.

As she stormed out, she angrily huffed out as she slammed the door. As she trudged down the street, Chuckie's taunting words haunted her. Now she knew what had been bothering her all morning.

Had they used protection?

~~~~~BREAK~~~~~~

Kimi arrived at practice ten minutes late. Her coach was pissed. He told her she'd be running a lap for each minute she'd been late that day before she could join practice.

Ten laps.

Wonderful.

After her laps, she was exhausted. After the fourth one she realized she was going to be too tired to continue with practice if she kept at her normal pace. She decided to slow it down. By the time she was done everyone else was on half time break.

When she walked into the soccer benches, Jojo was standing with Lil and the ace goalie on the team, Mariah, on the other side. Kimi grabbed her water bottle and strode over to them.

But if she was expecting a warm welcome she was completely mistaken. When she made her presence known, Lil gave her the angriest stare and turned to Jojo. "I'll be sure to pick some up tonight. See ya." Lil stalked away without a word to Kimi.

"What the fuck is her problem?" Kimi asked, feeling that familiar anger rise up in her throat.

Jojo shook her head. "Dude, she is pissed at you like for serious."

Mariah nodded. "Yea she came in all heated today."

Kimi sighed. Things were going so well between her and Lil. She thought they were good.

"Why? Did she say?"

Mariah and Jojo both stayed silent and looked at each other for a long moment. The silence was killing Kimi.

"Well?"

Mariah sighed. "You better tell her," she said. "I don't want to be any kind of way involved." She started walking to the gate. "See you guys tonight."

Kimi looked at Jojo. "So what'd she say."

Jojo sighed. "Okay, Kimi straight up, I don't know if it's true but Lil said you slept with Phil."

Kimi's heart fell into her stomach. Suddenly she felt nauseous. But how…? "What?"

Jojo nodded. "Yeah. She stormed into the locker room this morning on the brink of tears and all pissed off. She told everyone how you were a slut and slept with her brother. And she says you don't even like him even though he likes you and you're using him to get back at her."

Kimi's mouth dropped open. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. How could Lil go around and say that about her. Then she remembered.

Lil is a stone cold bitch.

"Oh my God!" Kimi plopped down onto the bench, feeling like her legs couldn't support her anymore.

Jojo sat down next to her, placing a hand awkwardly on Kimi's back. Jojo tried hard, but she was bad at showing affection and comfort.

"Listen, I don't know if it's true, but Lil is gunna ruin your life over this," she told her. "She told me and Mariah that her and Phil had a catastrophic fight over this when he showed up this morning. This isn't going to go away."

Kimi sighed. "Yeah, I know."

Kimi glances up at looks out the gate. Lil is now doing passes with Alex. Kimi knew she should have never trusted Lil. Now the bitch has ammo against her. And worst of all, Lilwas going to tell Tommy. He'd never come back to her after that.

What the hell was she going to do?

Sorry for the years of wait you guys. I know this is short but hey, im saving the party chapter for later. I think it'll be the best one in this story so far.

Better Days!