Two weeks and one soccer game passed by relatively quickly for Adora, who chose not to worry too much about Catra outside of the field since the other girl either got defensive or just all out ignored her. During practice and games they talked—or rather Adora talked, Catra just jeered and poked fun most of the time. Adora knew that was just Catra being Catra, really. But something about the awkwardness that still hung around the girl seemed to throw her off.
Why was Catra so awkward if she hated her? Besides that, Catra wasn't being in particularly mean about anything, just competitive which was by Adora's standards was better than whatever that first week of half-focus was. But there was one thing that Adora couldn't figure out: Why wasn't Catra being honest with her?
She could tell when something was bothering the other girl but what she didn't understand was why Catra—and to an extent her friends—seemed to be trying to keep it a secret. Was it something I said or did in the past? Was it something thank Beatrix or Hector did? She wondered, although something seemed to tell her that it was one of the latter that had caused this whole mess.
And her money was on Beatrix—after all the woman hadn't been a mother to either of them but she had treated Catra more like a object than a person.
"Are you sure that this is a good idea? I mean Catra has been...Withdrawn since they transferred here and I don't think that she'd appreciate us just dropping in like this." she said, snapping out of her thoughts as she followed Bow into a part of town she didn't recognize.
"Scorpia knows we're coming, she invited us remember? Besides she said Catra would probably be asleep most of the day since we had a game the other day." he answered simply
"Remind me again why I got drug along to this? I mean I understand that Adora actually knows these people but from what I know about Catra, I'm pretty sure that I don't want to be within five feet of her. I mean she's snide, rude, not to mention the fact that she..." Glimmer began although Adora cut her off.
"Trust me when I say that she meant it when she apologized and at least she didn't hit you in the face with a soccer ball. It could have been worse than a milkshake."
This earned confused looks from both of her friends before Glimmer spoke again, eyes hardening
"wait, she hit you in the face with a ball and you still want to be friends with her?"
Adora just rolled her eyes and walked on ahead "It was during practice and I was the goalie. It was an accident and she wasn't the only one who kicked the ball way to hard that day."
"You invited who here? Really? Are you out of your mind? Like yeah, I understand inviting what's his face, Kyle and maybe Bow but the whole damn team? Seriously?"
Scorpia couldn't recall if she had ever heard Catra's voice going as high as it was in that moment or seen her look half way panicked.
"Hey, I am over the year book this year and I want to make as many friends as possible okay? Besides, it would do you some good to actually be social for once." Scorpia countered and if looks could have killed, she would have fallen dead there.
"There is just one problem, everyone on the team hates me or did you forget that little detail?" Catra practically snarled just as the doorbell rang.
"Go put on something decent besides your pajamas while I go answer the door. Not everyone hates you on the team, Bow and Adora doesn't."
Catra found that she had no choice but skulking back to her room, slamming the door behind her while she tried to figure out just what the hell she would wear. Was this thing going to be formal? Semi formal? Casual? She was seriously going to kill Scorpia for not telling her about this beforehand.
"stupid Scorpia, stupid soccer, stupid party...Ugh what the hell am I going to wear?" she mumbled to herself as she stalked over to her closet, muttering all the while as she searched through her things.
This better not be one of her wild ideas to set me up with somebody or some shit. I swear that girl has mud for brains sometimes. Maybe I can just hide in here for a while...That way I don't have to deal with idiots and weird whatever-the-hell-we-ares. What are Adora and I anyway? Rivals? Enemies? Ugh...I woke up from my nap at the wrong time today.