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~Harley's POV~

"Hi everyone!" Autumn's voice carried across the parking lot. She's running toward us like she has thought of an amazing idea. Oh no. Her last 'amazing' idea had us taking hundreds of photos. I didn't really mind, but it was a little exhausting.

"Hey Autumn." I nod and Berry waves as Autumn approaches.

"Okay, so you know how you guys are recruiting students, right?" She asks a semi obvious question. The school has officially been open for a week now and students have been coming in at a steady rate.

"Yeah. Why?" Berry asks.

"Well, there's this guy at Hearst. A friend of mine. And he's been having a bit of trouble at Hearst. Do you think he could come here?" She asks hopefully.

I raise an eyebrow and glance at my sister, who looks as unsure as I do. "You know we wouldn't mind having him check out the school, but..."

"...whether he wants to join or not is up to him, not us." Berry finishes my sentence. "But you can still bring him over."

"Okay! I'll be back soon!" She dashes off to get this friend of hers. She returns a few minutes later with a guy that was clearly a football player with his Hearst football jersey. He has tanned skin, dark spikey hair, and arms full of muscles. Pretty good looking, if you ask me.

"Hey, the name's Julian." He introduces himself. "Autumn said you guys are recruiting." He shakes both me and my twin's hands.

"You heard right. I'm Harley and this is my sister, Berry." I introduce, ignoring the slight throb in my hand. This boy's got a grip.

"Julian's the star football player over at Hearst, but like I said earlier, he's been having a few problems. You guys remember Max, right?" Autumn continues at our nods. "Well, he just joined the team a few weeks ago, and the principal is already insisting that he plays Julian's position!"

"That's messed up." I say.

"Totally." Berry agrees.

"Look, I didn't sign up for a share circle where we talk about our feelings." Julian scowls. "This is my problem. No one else's."

"I just think it's unfair and you shouldn't be treated like that! You can join this school!" Autumn suggests.

"Well, here's the big question: how's your football team?" He asks us. I, the brave person I am, step back and let Berry explain to him how we don't exactly have one yet.

She catches my movement and gives me a slight glare before turning back to Julian. "It's...a work in progress. We're just starting out and all." She explains.

"No team?" He asks in disbelief. "Then this was a waste of time. Autumn, you don't know me very well, but I'm a football guy. What would I do here? At least at Hearst I had some time on the field."

"Like I said: It's a work in progress." Berry says. "You could help kick start the team. If you join the school."

"Oh yeah? You know a lot about football?" He asks in a slightly disbelieving tone. I don't really blame him since we look more like Barbies than athletes.

"I don't." Berry answers honestly but juts her thumb at me. "Too confusing for me. But she picked up on a lot more than me over the years."

"I do know my fair share about the sport, I guess." I shrug.

"Oh yeah? Then let's see what you've got at this school. Have somebody go long." He says and positions the football that I didn't notice was tucked under his arm.

"Hey, Lindsey!" I shout out to a passing Jock girl. She looks up in curiousity. "Ready to go long?!" She immediately goes into a stance and shouts back. "Always ready!"

"Then go!" Julian yells then pauses while Lindsey runs. Then he throws the ball in a perfect spiral.

"I got it!" She yells and catches it with relative ease.

"Nice catch." Julian says with an impressed smile. Lindsey skids to a halt, but collides with a classroom. "That last part could use to work though."

"Agreed." Both me and Berry say at the same time. I return Lindsey's thumbs up that she gave to say she was alright.

Julian turns to us with a slightly regretful look. "Sorry guys, but you don't even have enough room to throw a ball. I'm not crazy about Hearst, but at least they've got a field. Anyway, I've got to head back. There's a big game today, and there's even going to be a college scout there." He turns to leave, but then glances back. "Hey Autumn, you coming?"

"I wasn't really planning on it...since I'm not really into football..." She answers sheepishly.

"Oh. Right." He says, slightly disappointed.

"I could make an exception. I mean, maybe I could take some pictures?" She suggests questioningly at us and I shrug. We can't answer for her!

"Yeah? That would be cool. I mean, if you want to. It's not a big deal." He waves at all of us and walks off.

"Well, sounds like he's out." Berry sighs.

"I don't know. We might still have a shot at recruiting him." Autumn says. "But he is right about the lack of room though."

"Well, we did buy a new space a few days ago." I suddenly remember. "We can use that for the field."

"Nice!" Autumn smiles. "I guess we should buy game tickets so we can watch Julian play."

"You go on ahead. We'll catch up with you in a little bit." I say. "Got a few things to take care of."

"Alright." She smiles. "See you there!" She leaves and heads toward Hearst.

"Please tell me I'm not the only one with a bad feeling about this game." Berry says as we walk back to the buildings. We still have to lock the buildings up.

"You're not. You're definitely not."

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