The morning light crept into the room just as Korra's alarm went off. She let out a groan of disapproval and unenthusiastically raised her hand and slammed it down on the clock to turn her snooze on.
"Mornings are evil…" she mumbled into the pillow still half asleep.
This process repeated itself a few times, hitting snooze every nine minutes to get any more amount of sleep she could. She was about to hit snooze one more time when her mom came in just before she had the chance to close her eyes again.
"Korra honey, you're going to be late for school. Get dressed, your breakfast is almost ready."
Reluctantly Korra got up. She loved sleep but the smell of grilled cheese cooking in the kitchen was to tempting to forgo. She dragged herself out of bed and made her way to her closet staring at her clothing options. Making choices this early in the morning was never a good thing to do so she decided to eat something before she required any more brain functions. She followed the lovely smell of grilled cheese to the kitchen where her mom had already set out a plate for her on the kitchen table next to her dad.
"Good morning Korra" he said from behind his newspaper, "how was your sleep?"
"Not long enough…" Korra groaned as she took of bite of her meal.
"Well I hope you rested enough for practice tonight, they'll be scouts from Southern University at your game at the end of the month, you need to practice as hard as you can."
"Tonrraq let her eat in peace!" Senna scolded.
"I don't know how much I'd love living with snow all year round but I'm excited at the chance" korra replied, "speaking of practice I better go pack my equipment" she finished as she took the last half of her breakfast and went finish getting ready.
"If you get ready in the next ten monists I can drive you" her dad offered.
Not having to take the bus to school was never an offer Korra could turn down, she got ready as fast as she could.
The drive to school wasn't a long one, but this morning it seemed like it took forever. Her father would not let up about the scouts coming to her game. Korra was the captain of the school's hockey team which was ranked first overall, she loved playing and was very excited at the idea of scouts coming to watch her play but thinking about it made her very nervous. Besides she had a few weeks to prepare, no sense stressing about it just yet. Unfortunately her Dad didn't see it this way. Luckily she would be able to escape soon as they were pulling up to the athletic complex.
"I just want whats best for you Korra. A scholarship to Southern University would look very good to future employers." he kept on.
"I know dad, I'm working hard at it, I'll see you tonight" she replied as she closed the trunk of the car after getting her equipment out.
Her dad kissed her on the head wishing her a good day at school before getting back in the car and driving away.
Korra let out a sigh as she walked into the complex. She entered the building to find Opal and Kuvira just ahead of her, they turned around at the sound of the door to the building closing behind Korra.
"Hey Cap, going to drop your stuff off?" Opal asked. She was a left wing for the team and an excellent playmaker, she was even ahead of Korra in the standings when it came to assists.
"Yeah, then I've got to run back across campus to get to homeroom in time. You guys are so lucky your classes are close to the complex." She replied as she walked with her teammates towards the locker room.
"Maybe its a good thing your homeroom is so far, it'll help you work on your cardio and then maybe one day you'll be able to get by me" shot Kuvira, a defender on the team who lead the team in penalty minutes.
"You know what's funny, I remember you falling on your ass after I deked you out of your socks last time we di in practice" Korra shot back with a lop sided grin on her face.
Kuvira gave Korra a glare and kept walking towards the locker room. She was much to proud to admit defeat so she just kept her mouth shut.
Just as Korra dropped her bag down on the floor in front of her spot in the locker room the bell for homeroom rang. Shit - "Gotta run, Mrs Izumi will not let me be late again, I'll catch you guys later!"
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Korra made it to homeroom just in time panting heavily after running across campus.
"Glad to see you on time today Korra," Mrs Izumi said passively as she walked behind Korra to close the door. Korra gave her a fake grin and looked about the classroom to find Bolin waving his arms gesturing for her to come and sit by him.
"Morning Bo" she greeted him as she sat down.
"Hey Korra! Why are you all sweaty?"
"I had to run from the complex to get here on time or else Mrs Izumi would have burnt me alive or something."
"Oh right! You have practice tonight!" Bolin realized, "It's not so bad though right, you have gym first period anyways so you'll be getting sweaty anyways. I on the other hand have science with Mr Baatar, he's great but man I can't do science this early in the morning."
"Anything this early in the morning is bad Bo." Korra replied, both of them laughing.
After earning a glare from Mrs Izumi for being loud and having gone through the attendance they were finally set free by the bell ending homeroom.
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Korra made her way to the changing room to get into her gym clothes meeting up with Opal along the way. Opal looked over at Korra as she took off her shirt to change, "Jesus Korra how hard have you been hitting the gym lately? I don't think there's room for anymore abs on that stomach."
Korra laughed, "Well I don't really have a choice the way my Dad has been pushing me about this Southern University thing."
"Oh right the scouts! Don't worry Korra you're amazing on the ice, they'd be crazy not to offer you a scholarship. Don't stress! Besides I don't think having an eight pack vs a six pack will increase your odds of getting in" Opal laughed.
The bell rang to begin class and the girls went out to start their warm up laps. Korra always found herself at the front of the pack when they would run, contrary to Kuvira's jab at her early she had excellent cardio.
She could hear footsteps getting closer to her in the background, "Hey!….Hey Korra!" it was Mako, Bolin's older brother.
"Is your Dad a baker? Cause you've got some nice buns."
"Oh god Mako…what's wrong with you?"
"Hey whats the use of having a gay best friend if I can't try out my amazing pick up lines on her?" He joked.
"Seriously where do you get these things? Do you write them down?" She retorted.
"I do actually! How about this one, 'Are you a campfire? Cause you're hot and I want s'more,' or how about 'Are you religious? Because you're the answer to all my prayers.'"
Korra rolled her eyes and was lucky enough to be saved by the sound of Mrs Su Yin's whistle before she had to endure listening to anymore of Mako's cheesy lines. As she looked past Mako to where Mrs Su Yin was standing she saw Jinora, a right wing on her team and her line, she was also Mrs Peman and Mr Tenzin's daughter.
"Hey Jinora!" she yelled as she and Mako walked over to her. "You ready for practice tonight?"
"Hey! Actually I don't think I'll be there tonight. I'm going to go home after school to spend time with the baby."
"Oh right of course, I completed forgot to ask you earlier but I was distracted by some less that brilliant pick up lines that were being thrown at me," she stuck her tongue out at Mako. "How is everyone? What did your Mom end up having?"
"Everyone is great! We have another little brother, Rohan. Meelo is so excited. He sees him as the start to his army."
"Thats awesome, congratulations on being a big sister again." she smiled at Jinora. "I was supposed to have your Mom for second period english. I wonder what the sub will be like, hopefully she won't be boring."
"Hey you three! We're all waiting!" Mrs Su Yin yelled across the field.
"You guys can talk about the mystery sub later, we better head over" Mako said grabbing Korra by the arm as the three of them ran towards their teacher.
