1/29/2006

A/N: Hello to those who read this fic… Uh… well I'm going back to school tomorrow – so the next part would probably have to be updated over the weekend, which is only a couple days away.

A/N2: Ah, and continue to give me some feedback! Anyways – thanks for all your support everyone! ENJOY!

Part 23: Cooling…

Thursday – Lunch (Same day)

Everyone was still really shock about Sam's sudden anger outburst, they may be shocked but then they were also concerned. Sam was normally the cool, calm friendly person, who always seems so under control. Never would they have thought that she would lift that girl up off the ground.

"Sam…" Katie asked.

"Hmm?" Sam replied while taking a sip of her juice.

"You alright?"

Everyone on the table were now looking over in her direction, even Tad and Russell were there today, even though they normally were somewhere else on Thursdays.

"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" Sam said casually, as if nothing happened.

"But you like… totally lifted that girl up off her feet man." Tad said.

"Well she deserved it…" She replied just as casually as before, "She deliberately pushed me over."

"Well I guess she kinda did… but seriously you alright?" Jessie asked in total concern.

"Yes," Sam replied laughing, "I just got a little angry out there… Not to mention lack of sleep causes people to be just a little cranky, especially in the mornings."

"A little angry? I don't think I'll every be able to lift another girl up off their feet even if I was angry…" Becky said.

"Well Beck, sorry to break it to you, but it would seem a little harder to lift someone off their feet like that, if they were taller than you…" Jessie said, causing everyone to laugh.

Becky fake pouted and said, "Well it's not my fault I was genetically born short!"

Grace said as she patted Becky on the back, "Its okay… I totally feel for you."

Everyone laughed yet again. Then Sam said, "Well look on the bright side, you can be totally sneaky when playing sports..."

"Talking about sports…" Katie began, "If we win today's game, you guys wanna go grab some ice-cream or pizza's afterwards?"

"Yeah… Sure!" Becky said all excited.

"No problem, I'll just call home to tell 'em Jessie and I will be a little late."

"Cool. Sam you comin?" Katie asked.

"Of course, I am the captain after all…" Sam said mock-proudly.

Laughing, Katie rolled her eyes, then thought of the brightest idea, "Well captain, would you like to treat your friends to a victory meal then?"

Looking as though she got slapped across the face for no apparent reason, Sam replied with, "What?"

"Yeah you heard me captain." Katie grinned devilishly.

Sam sat there for a second thinking before she smiled genuinely and replied, "Fine… I'll treat you guys to dinner. IF… we win that is."

"Deal."

Katie extend her hand towards Sam, who was sitting across the table, they shook hands, and Jessie just sat there shaking her head at the two's weirdness.

"We get food too right," Tad asked, referring to him and Russell.

Sam looked at both of them for a second and said, "Yeah. Sure why not."

"Sweet… Now I'll definitely be there to cheer you guys on!" Tad replied giddy.

"Oh… so I see you need to be bribed into coming to cheer for your friends…" Katie said teasingly and everyone laughed.

"No… Just that getting food after helps inspire the whole situation more." Tad explained.

"Whatever…" came Sam.

During the Game…

The game was alright halfway into the first half, the score was one all, scored by Katie from Sinclair, so both schools were even. Not much injury happening, Jessie was playing, her ankle still in good condition by the end of first half. However that didn't last long, because Jessie was running with the ball, she was about to shoot for goal, but was just a second too slow, because a defender came right in front of her. Both girls kicked the ball at the same exact time, the pressure from the kick was so strong it caused Jessie's ankle to ache, and she lost balance and fell to the ground. But seeing that there was no physical contact, the game continued, Jessie tried to stand up, but her ankle was still lightly sore and weak. Having no other choice, she got pulled off the field by the coach, so she could rest her ankle.

After healing for the rest of the first half and half time break, Jessie was back in the game. It was a very eventful second half, though no one got another goal yet, but the game got everyone in the crowd at the edge of their seats, if not already standing.

Time was coming close for the game to end; both schools were frantic to get a goal in before the game was officially over. From a bit of frustration, a girl from the opposition team did the worse that could happen in a game, not keeping calm. The girl pushed Sam over when both were running for the ball. Not having the greatest balance when in a running state, Sam immediately lost balance, no matter how hard she tried to keep herself from falling, she toppled over and rolled a bit. The ref called free kick, and now was their chance of getting a goal, the crowd was quite, the score was one all, there was only five minutes left of the game.

Sam was nervous as hell, panicking on where she wanted to pass the ball, she looked around the field hopefully able to find a remotely free teammate. Through her near nervous breakdown, Becky caught her attention. She was subtly motioning with her fingers to pass the ball to her.

Sam did as advised, she ran up to the immobile ball and kicked it just hard enough for it to land within Becky's reach, making sure it doesn't go too high up. Becky quickly turned around with the ball, now facing the goal. Initially Sam thought she was going to aim for goal, but then she saw Becky do a kick, that was only powerful enough to count as a pass. Looking to where the ball was passed, out from behind the crowd of tall blue shirts came a small green Sinclair player. Instantly, Sam recognized that person to be Jessie. Jessie caught the ball, controlled it, dribbled a few steps forward and took a shot. Everyone from the opposition team were surprised when Jessie popped out from nowhere… heck, even the Sinclair team were surprised. As if everything was on slow motion now, the ball slowly flew towards goal, everyone turned their attention to the goal…

Once the ball hit the net, everything seemed to have gone back to a normal pace, there was an uproar of cheer from the crowd. Their whole team was jumping up and down from joy and victory, Jessie was hyper, doing cartwheels. Once Jessie decided to stop the cartwheeling the team ran towards her, Katie, being first to reach her girl, got jumped onto. Now a very ecstatic Jessie was being carried by Katie, and the rest of the team gave the star a big pat on the back, 'cause it seemed awkward to hug Jessie in such a position. Awakening them to the fact that there was still another three minutes left of the game, the referee blew the whistle.

For the most part of the last three minutes, once Upton Sinclair took possession over the ball, they did some small passing, doing the basic 'keep the ball off the opposition'. Before long, the ref blew the whistle and the game was over.

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