Title: Forgotten Feelings

Author: LilAzNGuRLY

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Eli sees an old crush from high school who befriends Jessie and Grace. What will he do when he is confronted with his old feelings? (AN: I know, I know this chapter is really long. I hope y'all enjoy and if you have any ideas include it in you review or e-mail me at tennisgurly7@yahoo.com. Thanks and please R/R)

After Eli exited the parking lot he started to head toward Booklovers to head to work, he knew if he was late one more time Jake and Judy would chew off his head. While he was driving, he couldn't help thinking about the car.

*Why does it seem so familiar? I swear that I've seen it somewhere before. Who owns it? Was it Josh, the captain of the football team? No, he had a red mustang. What about Brad, I remember him always going somewhere in a silver Porsche.*

Then it finally clicked why the silver Porsche was so familiar to him.

"It's Alex's car, wait a minute, why the hell would she be back at the high school for? I can't believe I didn't realize it was Alex's car until I thought about Brad. I have to find out why she is there. I'll do it after work when I pick up Jessie and Grace."

He pulled into the parking lot and went into the store. He was actually on time for once.

*Let's see what Jake has to say about this. He'll probably be too shocked to even say something.*

He started for the stock room to stack some books when Judy came up to him.

"Eli? Wow, your actually here early. I'm really proud of you."

"Thanks Judy. Did you come here just to say that or do I have to do something else."

"Actually Lily called to remind you that the girls are staying after school till about 5 so you can either go there and watch them or do something till then. Ok?"

"Ok. Thanks Judy, better get back to work."

"Ok bye."

He tried to keep his mind off Alex and continue doing his work but he couldn't. All these questions were zooming around his head, like why was she there and where did she go off to after she graduated and the most important question was why they never got together? He also wanted to know that but never had the guts to go up and ask her; probably because she was always with Brad and he remembered that he never got along with Brad quite well.

He was so lost in thought that he never realized that Jake was behind him.

"Eli, what a surprise. I never thought this day would come; you are actually here on time. I am surprised."

Eli was startled to hear someone behind him but quickly got over it.

"Oh thanks Jake, appreciate it."

"Well no problem. Anyways the reason I am here is that since we don't have that many customers today you can leave whenever you are done stacking the books. Ok?"

"Ok thanks Jake."

"No problem Eli."

Eli started stacking the books faster so he could get to the school to watch the girls practice and to see Alex. Before he knew it, he was done and left to get to the high school He started to think up of ways to explain why he was there early.

*************************************************BACK AT THE HIGH SCHOOL***********************************************

Grace is at her locker getting her stuff together before she headed off to the tennis courts. She also needed to wait for Jessie to meet her so they both could go there together. She had met up with Jessie and Katie at lunch to discuss where they were going to meet; when Katie found out that they were taking tennis she instantly told them she was going to transfer to there class but unfortunately couldn't cause the class was already full.

Grace had just shut her locker when Jessie appeared already to go.

"Hey Grace, you ready to go?"

"Yeah Jess just hold on a sec while I stuff all this stuff in here."

"Ok, it really stinks that Katie couldn't join us."

"Yeah, but she can be in our class next year."

"Yeah I guess."

"Ok done lets go. Don't want to be late on the first day."

"Yeah let's go."

They started walking toward the courts and once they got there they didn't know whether to go straight to the courts or do go in the locker room and change. When they decided to ask an Asian girl that was standing nearby. She had dark brown hair probably down to her shoulders but they couldn't tell because her hair was up in a ponytail and she had brown eyes. She was lean but well built probably from tennis since she was holding a tennis racket but she looked about Eli's age so they wondered why she was there at the courts.

"Umm, excuse me. We wanted to know whether we were supposed to go straight to the courts or to the locker room to change."

"Oh you must be new, first you go to the courts to meet your tennis trainer and the coach and then go and change."

"Ok thanks for your help."

"Yeah thanks."

"No problem, I'm always here to help. So are you two new?"

"Yeah we are. I'm Grace and this is Jessie."

"Hi, my name is Alexia but my friends call me Alex. Ok so why don't we head down to the courts."

"Ok sure. I don't mean to be nosy or anything but aren't you a little too old to be in high school?

"Oh, I'm not in high school. I came here cause coach called me to be one of the trainers. I am actually in medical school right now.

"Wow, that's cool. What field are you planning to go into?"

"Well I was thinking that since I love babies and little kids I could be an O.B. doctor or a pediatric. But I haven't decided yet.

All the way down to the court, the conversation was mainly questions the girls asked back and forth to get to know each other.

"Hey Girls, you're here. Great, ok I need your name so I can check who your trainer is. By the way, my name is Coach Champion and he is Coach Hartman. Alex I need you to help the other trainers and give them directions on how they should help the players."

"K, coach. I'm on it." Alexia said as she walked over to the other trainers.

"Thanks Alex, ok and your names are…."

"Mine is Grace Manning and this is Jessie Sammler."

"Ok, let's see your trainer is Alexia Connors and she would be the girl who you were with 5 minutes ago."

"Wow this is so great, thanks Coach Champion."

"No problem, you girls are lucky. She was #1 on girls' varsity and was undefeated in district so you two will learn a lot from her. Well I had better tell the other players who their trainers are. See you girls later."

"Wow, she sounded really good. Grace, what if I make a complete fool out of myself in front of her?"

"You won't besides if you stink then I will too. Plus her job as our trainer is to help us get better. You never know we might get better than her."

"I doubt it."

"Hey Grace. Jessie. Looks like you're stuck with me for the year. Let's see what we should do. Hmmm, well first I need you to change into your workout clothes then well why we'll run to the school and back about 2 times for a warm up workout. That should equal at least half a mile."

"Ok let's go."

After the girls changed, they ran to the school and back two times with Alex, and were tired when they got back. They got a drink of water and then Alex decided to each them the basics: how to hold a forehand grip and a backhand grip. Then afterwards they practiced by trying to hit the tennis balls that Alex fed to them.  Before they knew it class was over.

"That was a great job today girls. Now just to let you two know that if you want to try out for the varsity team then write down your name and phone # and give it to me so I can call your parents to tell them all the details. Also, after school tennis practice will start next Monday. Ok you can go now."

"Wow that was some class. Yeah it was hard and fun at the same time."

"Yeah it was wasn't it? I wonder if Eli is here yet."

"You know my bro. He is always late."

"Yeah you're right."

********************************************************MEANWHILE************************************************

Eli is stuck in traffic trying to get to the school to pick up Jessie and Grace. He looks at the clock that reads 3:45.

"Great the class is probably over already. I hope Grace and Jessie are still there."

The traffic moves really slowly and Eli has been stuck on the same road for the past hour. And it didn't look like he was going any where soon.

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