When I woke up the following morning I had the usual feeling of excitement in me. Jumping out of bed I went and grabbed a quick shower before doing my hair half up half down and my make. Last thing I did before I went down stairs was I chucked on my uniform. Grabbing my bag which i'd packed last night before i headed down the stairs. Much to my surprise when I turned the corner Adam and Kono were there.

"What are you guys doing here?" I questioned, surprise clearly evident in my voice

"We brought you and Steve breakfast before your big day" Adam answered before Kono handed me a bag. Looking inside I saw my favorite breakfast pastry

"Thank you guys" I replied "Thank you for everything"

"Ah well there's something else" Kono replied smiling "i'm on pick up duty this evening and we're coming to the game"

"I love you guys so much sometimes" I replied pulling Kono into a hug

"It means you can have a drink without them being all over you afterwards" she whispered before puling away "Oh and your staying the night at mine so do you want to go grab a bag really quick?" nodding my head I returned my pastry to the table and bolted off up the stairs.

When up stairs I grabbed my emergency Kono kit, added my toothbrush and a few other things and flew back down the stairs. By the time I got back Steve was in from his run and eating his breakfast.

"Hey kiddo ready for you big day" Steve asked through a mouthful of food. Giggling I responded

"Yeah can't wait games going be great and i'm not a kiddo any longer, haven't been in about 6 years"

"About that" Steve started "I know you want to be all grown up and that now that your going to party's and all sorts just be careful and call us if you need us yeah? we may get disappointed in you but we'll always help you" He finished.

"I will don't worry" I replied going over to hug him. Taking the last bite of my pastry I started "thanks so much for the breakfast guys but I have to go as me and the gang all meet before school to make sure we all look the same I'm game days so bye"

"We will all see you later Grace have a good day" kono said before I handed her my overnight bag, grabbed my school bag and left for school.

Game days are always fun, we have first three lessons as normal but teachers know were all going be distracted and as long as we're vaguely quite don't get anoyed at us, the we have early lunch, we have a school peprally which is like an achievement assembly where the marching band preform, we preform and the football team is announced and then everyone else goes home, we have last minute practice and a small dinner given to us by the school and we go play/preform.

Driving to school I listened to my music as always and by the time I got there I was super hyped up about the game. Walking over to the cheer meet up I saw most of the other girls were already here. I went straight towards meh and Katie and we chatted and gossiped and check how we each looked. After the bell rang we waited a few minutes before walking into school together. We walked basically as a pack gradually filtering into our first lessons of the day.

Luckily my first two lessons passed extremely uneventful and I was able to chill a bit and go over routines in my head for later. Break time I met with all my friends at our usual spot and went to sit down when I noticed Jake looking me up and down so just for the pleasure of it I turned around before sitting down to tease him and followed it with a wink. Every so often during break one of us would catch the other staring and would smile before looking away to carry on our conversation. We'd decided to keep our relationship a secret from our friends until the party tonight so that nothing was let slip to any of my ohana who were coming later.

The peprally was fun as always and I loved performing for all of the school before the game. We kept two of our new routines a secret as a surprise for tonight and I just kept getting more and more excited. Over the course of the next few hours I managed to get a 10 minuet alone talk in with Jake in a classroom, towards the end of the conversation this came up

"I cant wait for us to tell our friends so we don't have to be so secretive anymore" Jake said leaning back in his chair

"I know it will be nice to have everyone apart from five-0/family knowing" I agreed "your nervous about the game"I carried on sensing something was wrong "you'll do great I promise, you work so hard, it will pay off"

"Thank you" he replied looking up "sometimes your positivity gets me so sucked up I feel like I can do anything" he said before adding "I love you"

Without thinking I replied "I love you too" and gave him a quick peck on the lips before pulling him out of the room by his hand.