Title: One Chance
Summary: Cynthia's someone who's able to blend in very well, too well if you ask her. But at the same time she is well known. Known for being a semi-small YouTuber and an artist responsible for about half the paintings in the school's art rooms anyway. But she's always been seen by her crush as just "one of the guys." How long, and how many other girls is it going to take for him to see that this picky jock's perfect and nerdy athlete of a best friend is the girl he's been looking for when he has to choose who he's going to end up marrying one day?
Main Characters: Cynthia and Leon
High Chance of being Finished in WHSS 2
One Chance
Hiding in the background was one of Cynthia's talents, along with art, video games, reading books, and sports anyway. However, sometimes she was too good at it. She was even better at hiding in plain sight, after all she was a video gaming YouTuber and artist under the aliases SapphireGleam and Casi Ligura, and yet only a select few in the entire school knew about her hidden career. Wearing contacts during her videos and usually, glasses at school certainly made it pretty difficult for anyone to recognize her. For some reason. Although hiding the light blue cheetah marking of her bloodline, the different way of styling her hair, and changing her voice just a hair probably made it more difficult to recognize her in her videos. It was so bad that the guy she had had a crush on and had been friends with for years simply considered her as basically one of the guys, meaning she definitely knew how a guy's brain worked much better than most of the other girls.
Take now, for example, currently, she was sitting on the grass at the edge of the school football field with her laptop on her lap typing up a paper she needed to finish as early as possible so that she could make sure she got some videos recorded this evening and tonight. At the moment her crush and best friend Leonardo "Leon" Bramble was practicing for the football game, what he was talking about had her a little worried however, Leon had found out over the summer that she was a particularly good sports player, and the blonde had gotten the idea of bragging to some of his friends about how she was smart and really athletic. Which wasn't a lie, Cynthia was a very athletic person on top of her nerdiness as Leon so eloquently called that part of her. However, she wasn't a big fan of showing off to a group of doubtful boys just for the fun of it. Unluckily for her, when Leon's shadow loomed over her she knew she was going to have to prove herself to the entire ridiculous team.
Cynthia sighed and closed her laptop's lid only to yelp when Leon's helmet was pushed over her fishtail braid covered head so that she could hardly see. She took a few moments to recollect herself before looking at him, knowing that seeing the sweaty blonde was probably going to make her face flush if she didn't get control first. Leon was pretty good looking by himself, but the whole football gear and even messier blonde hair made it more difficult than usual to hide what she was feeling.
Leon grinned at the way the helmet fell over Cynthia's eyes and she had to lift it up to see properly, feeling a fleeting warm and fuzzy sensation before he sobered up, the first emotion was so quick that he didn't even notice it. "The team doesn't think you can play," he told her in a rather huffy and annoyed tone, "I know you can."
"Leon I don't like showing off, you know that," Cynthia responded with a roll of her eyes and wrinkled her nose, "and your helmet is pretty damp, you know that right?"
Leon waved off the second half of her statement, "you won't be showing off, you'll just be saving my honor," he grinned lopsidedly at her, "you know, the whole knight in shining armor thing Lily was telling us about?"
Cynthia's jaw almost dropped, the one thing he remembered from the whole fairytale story and conversation with her younger sister was the knight in shining armor bit? When she had been teasingly telling him about it for years? The nerve of that boy. But she let it go, knowing he wouldn't know romance unless it smacked him in the face. Come to think about it even if I flat out kissed him he would still stare at me blankly. She quickly shook herself from that road of thoughts, knowing exactly where it would go. "I can not believe you remember that but fine," She set her laptop down on the lush grass and stood up, not bothering to take the helmet off, knowing that she was going to need it. "What do you want me to do "Oh great one?""
Leon grinned at her, "You're a wide receiver, I'm the quarterback, the others are trying to block you. Get it?"
"Loud and clear quarterback," Cynthia snorted and jogged toward where the left wide receiver would be, standing and waiting for Leon and one of the other boys to get ready to begin the practice round. She could hear many of the boys mumbling to each other as they moved to the other side of the center field so that they could play an opposing team for the purpose of practice.
"She's a girl, a nerd at that."
"She's going to fall the moment one of us knocks into her."
"What's Leon doing?"
"Who cares? He's an idiot when it comes to this girl remember?"
Cynthia rolled her eyes and pushed the mouth guard, having done it before while practicing with Leon to help him over the summer, boys were stupid. Especially jocks.
"Hike!"
Cynthia heard the words and took off running, keeping an eye on the football as if spun through the air from Leon's perfect throw as she ran, dodging some of the other boys and continuing to run. For a few moments, it was a blur to her as she snatched the ball from the air, tucked it under one of her arms and flat out sprinted toward the touchdown line, shooting forward like a rocket and narrowly avoiding getting knocked down. That was until she was a few feet from the touchdown line and got tackled from behind, causing the lighter girl to fall onto her stomach with one arm outstretched with the ball held over the line. The tackle itself made her glad she had risked Leon's mouth guard, it had made her teeth rattle from how hard he hit her, and she didn't have any padding on either.
"Brendon what the heck man!" Leon snapped as he jogged over to where the defender had tackled Cynthia and gotten up while Cynthia remained on the ground. "She's not wearing the rest of the gear you idiot!"
Brendon furrowed his eyebrows and spit out his mouth guard, "I thought we were testing her!"
"Not body slamming her to the dirt when you weigh at least her weight and more than an extra half of it!" Leon snapped back and squatted down on the grass next to Cynthia, "you okay?"
Cynthia gave a thumbs up before she rolled over onto her back with a wince, "may have bruised a few ribs, but no big deal." She said after removing the mouth guard and hesitantly touching her nose, "and no blood so no issues." She offered her hand to him for him to help her up, "but I'd appreciate a hand."