This is my attempt at making the chapters longer. Yes, I've noticed how short they've been and I'm trying to fix that. Tell me if I do good?

The blonde-haired hazel-eyed 22-year old woman continued running down the path in the park. Her blond curls bounced up and down in time with her body. She had been running this same path for maybe half an hour. She looked ahead and noticed her tired friend resting on a bench, her head bent and her dark red hair covering her face. The woman smiled to herself as she looked at her friend's exhausted state. She looked behind her to see her two other friends much farther back, but still running. The woman finally caught up to her tired friend and stopped running in front of her.

"Come on, Maggie! You can do it!" The woman cheered her friend on.

"No way! I don't know how you guys do it, Crystal, but I've never been good at sports and running!" Maggie told her.

"But you said yourself that you need to get in shape!" Crystal protested.

"But this is too much! Even Lily and Jeanette can't keep up with you! It's from your days playing field hockey!" Maggie complained.

"We'll go out for ice cream if you do good today! Come on! Let's not let them catch up!" Crystal said about Lily and Jeanette.

"No way." Maggie said with finality.

Their long dark-brown-haired brown-eyed 23-year old friend finally caught up with them, out of breath.

"Are we stopping? Oh thank God!" She said as she laid down on the sidewalk path.

"Where's Jeanette, Lily? Wasn't she with you?" Crystal asked.

"Yeah, but she got tired and slowed down." Lily said.

"Isn't Crystal going a little crazy with this whole workout thing?" Maggie asked Lily.

"Yes!" Lily said without hesitating. "I think we should just play tennis."

"No way! I'm the only one that doesn't know how to play! You even taught Maggie!" Crystal complained.

The final friend of their group of friends since middle school finally caught up. Her short black hair stuck to her with sweat and her brown eyes were tired. She was 22 years old also.

"I'm done!" She breathed and fell/laid down on top of Lily.

"Get off Jeanette! Your sweat is adding to mine and you're heavy!" Lily said and pushed her off.

"You and Crystal are skinnier than Maggie and me! You didn't have that much of a workout!" Jeanette complained.

"Not by that much! And do you know how out of shape I am?" Lily said.

"We should play tennis." Jeanette stated.

"Yes! I was just saying that!" Lily agreed.

"Fine." Crystal sighed. "We can play on the park's courts. But only if you guys have your tennis stuff with you now!"

"Of course we do!" Lily and Jeanette both shot up and ran to their cars to get their equipment.

"Running they can't do, but tennis? They always have energy for that." Crystal said, watching them run. Maggie laughed and they headed to the tennis courts.

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Lily and Maggie were playing against Crystal and Jeanette. The score was 6-6 and they were in a tiebreaker. They both had 9 points and the team that got the next point would win. Jeanette served the ball in low and fast and Lily returned it back to her. Jeanette watched it bounce in and lobbed it over Maggie's head and near the alley by her. Lily ran to get it and managed to hit the ball after it bounced in before she stumbled. She rolled once on the ground and then laid there face down. The ball she hit bounced in but went past Jeanette and Crystal as they rushed over to the net to get a closer look to see if Lily was alright.

"Oh my god! Are you alright?" They both asked.

Maggie walked/jogged next to Lily to check on her. She hadn't moved since she fell. There was a few moments of stunned silence then Lily started laughing. She got up, with Maggie's help, and dusted herself off. She was bursting out laughing now.

"Was that in?" She said between giggles.

"Yeah. I think so. Why . . . ?" Crystal trailed off.

Realization dawned on Jeanette's face. "You little cheater! You fell on purpose!"

"Yup." Lily said and her and Maggie high-fived.

"That's not fair! You can't fake injuries!" Jeanette said.

"I can do whatever I want as long as I hit the ball in." Lily said. Her giggles were slowing down.

"No fair!" Jeanette threw her racket down.

"Guess you guys are buying us ice cream." Maggie said, referring to a previously made bet.

Lily and Maggie burst into laughter again.

HBHBHBHBHB

"You still did pretty good for your first time." Lily told Crystal as she licked her chocolate ice cream cone.

"Thanks. You still cheated though." Crystal said back.

"You guys need to let that go. It's ice cream, not a flat screen TV!" Lily said.

They were all currently sitting on one of the tables outside of the ice cream parlor. After Crystal and Jeanette paid for Lily and Maggie's ice cream, they had gotten their own and they were all now eating their ice cream.

"We need to get together like this more often." Maggie pointed out. "We never see each other."

"Yeah. Still friends since middle school. Wow." Jeanette said.

Three of the four girls were thinking about the meeting they had with a certain prince tomorrow as they ate and wondered if they would win the queen-choosing contest.

Sorry to throw tennis terms out there. If the ball's in you play it, if it's out you don't. In tennis you play games until someone wins 6 games, but you have to win by two. If the score becomes 6-6 (both sides have won 6 games), then you play a tiebreaker. In a tiebreaker, it's the first person to 10 points and you don't have to win by two. A lob is when you hit it high and near the back of the court, so only someone at the back can hit it. Did I do good with making this chapter long? :)