Hey Guys! Thanks so much for your reviews on the last chapter, it really means a lot and it keeps me motivated to write :) Anyway, I know there was a slight wait for this chapter, but I've been very un-motivated lately and haven't been able to get into the swing of writing anything. BUT here is Chapter Three and I hope you all enjoy it!
Chapter Three - Game Night
Game Night.
Nellie could feel the anxiety bubbling up in her stomach as she sat in the backseat of Lindsay's car while her two best friends chatted excitedly about the game that was starting in approximately 40 minutes.
She usually loved going to the football games, but tonight's game was different. It was an away game against McKinley, which meant that their team wouldn't have the home field advantage, and McKinley always knew how to get under their skins to put them off the game.
The McKinley vs Carmel games always ended in trouble. McKinley had beaten them every single time they had played them for the past few years, and every time, a fight would break out. Her brother and his teammates were sore losers, she wasn't afraid to admit it and she also knew that McKinley were a better team, but that, she was afraid to admit. A Knight wasn't supposed to even think those thoughts, but growing up around the game itself and the team, she knew it was true and the rest of the school were just deluded, too busy concentrated on the rivalry.
"Alright back there Nells?" Marissa's voice broke Nellie from her thoughts and she looked up at her best friends concerned face.
"Yeah, just worried about Reece," Nellie responded, biting her lip slightly. She hated her twin 70% of the time, but she would always worry about him. Especially when he was around the McKinley football team. He had an ego that was too big for him to handle and a temper that he couldn't control. She had also inherited that same temper, but Nellie knew she could handle it, where as it only took one word for Reece to take it out of context and a fight will have broken out.
"Don't worry. I've warned Damian that if he starts anything, he won't be getting congratulatory game sex tonight." Lindsay piped up, keeping her eyes on the road.
Nellie laughed slightly as she looked at her friend ridiculously, "Linds, it would take a miracle for us to win against McKinley. He won't be getting game sex either way."
Lindsay shrugged and glanced at Nellie through the mirror, "He doesn't know that. He thinks we're going to beat them with flying colours."
Nellie and Marissa shared a look, both rolling their eyes at their friend. "I don't think that one will work on my brother though, do you?" Nellie asked with a raise of her eyebrows. Reece hated Lindsay from the first time he laid eyes on her back in freshman year, his reasoning being 'She's annoying as hell. Her voice sounds like a high pitched Whale.' Nellie was never sure how he had come up with that insult, but Lindsay didn't think much of it and annoyed him even more because of it.
"It might, you never know." Lindsay retorted with a smirk.
"Ew!" Nellie exclaimed, "I don't want to think of you having sex with my brother!"
Marissa laughed, "Maybe they already did it. That's why he hates her so much."
Lindsay let out a laugh, "He wishes he had me." She joked, wiggling her eyebrows.
"Ew, let's stop right now!" Nellie exclaimed, throwing her hands up in front of her face.
The two girls in the front giggled lightly as Lindsay turned the corner and they drove into McKinley's car lot. They could already see students stood around in groups, glaring at each other, and they just hoped that tonight wouldn't be like the last time where almost half of each team had been suspended from the next two games.
"Here we go," Nellie let out a breath of air and climbed out of the back seat. She noticed eyes immediately turn and glare at her as she shut the car door. All because she was Reece's sister and almost every single student at McKinley disliked her brother.
The team let out various cheers and whistles as they made their way out of the locker rooms and onto the football field where the stands immediately erupted into applause when they saw the McKinley Titan's.
Football was a big thing in this town, along with basketball and hockey, anytime a game was on, it was made a huge deal out of and it was an even bigger one when it was a game against two of the school's in town. It was rare that McKinley and Carmel played against each other, usually only twice in a season and then again if they were both in the playoffs. They had played each other once already at the beginning of the season and both teams had managed to make it this far into the season.
It wasn't a big deal if either team lost, because they were both in the top five out of the team's in the state, so they both still had a chance at making it to the state championship and winning the entire season, just as long as they won all of their other games.
"Dude, we got this!" Michael yelled through the various team player's, his arm falling around Blake's shoulders as they got pumped for the game.
Blake nodded in agreement though Michael didn't see as he was too busy jumping around in excitement.
It was only a few minutes later when another uproar sounded through the stands, and Carmel ran out from the other side of the pitch, their cheerleaders in front of them. A chorus of boos were heard from McKinley fans as the team cheered, tuning out the bad energy.
Nellie watched from the stands, she was sat at the front like always, with Marissa and Lindsay at her sides just in case they needed to calm any of their friends who were on the team down. Nellie almost always had to get up and talk to Reece during Time-Out's and Half time because he was always so angry when he played.
"Oh god," Nellie grumbled, covering her face with her hands slightly as she watched the two teams walk toward each other, each of them shouting insults at the other. "I don't think I can watch."
Marissa glanced at her, a nervous look on her own face, "Maybe they'll surprise everyone and be friendly?" She said uneasily.
"Yeah, and Lindsay's a Virgin." Nellie retorted with a roll of her eyes.
"Hey!" Lindsay exclaimed.
Nellie opened her mouth to reply, but her eyes caught her brother and he was making his way toward the middle of the field, she glanced across the field and saw McKinley's captain, Blake Jenner, also walking to the middle.
"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck." She said out loud, her eyes widened as she watched the scene play out in front of her.
Blake smirked as he reached the middle of the field, the referee stood in the middle of them. "Remember boys, we want a clean and fair game." He reminded the two captains, though neither would listen because this game definitely wasn't going to be clean or fair.
"Call it." The referee commented, flicking a coin into the air.
"Heads." Blake responded, not taking his death glare from Reece's matching one.
"You're going down, Jenner." Reece hissed, rolling his lips together.
"Keep telling yourself that." Blake responded, a smirk growing on his face.
"Heads!" The referee shouted and the two boys spat on the floor in front of them in unison.
"We're playing." Blake smirked and turned away, walking back to the team.
Nellie let out the breath she was holding in as she watched the two boys walk away from each other, "Okay, that didn't look too bad."
Marissa and Lindsay shared nervous glances, knowing that this game was definitely going to get alot worse.
"Hey girls," The three of them looked up to see Cameron and Jake, neither boys were on the football team, but they always came to support their friends at the games.
"Hey." Marissa and Lindsay responded, smiling at the two as they took seats next to Marissa.
"She alright?" Cameron chuckled, nodding his head toward Nellie as he draped his arm over Marissa's shoulders.
Marissa nodded slowly, nudging Cameron's arm off of her, "She's fine. Just worried about Reece."
"Aw Nells!" Jake's voice interrupted Nellie's thoughts and she turned to look at the boy, nervously biting her nails. "Do you wanna go and get snacks to take your mind off of the game?" He asked hopefully as the whistle blew and the game kicked off.
"Uh-" Nellie started and her eyes darted to the field as she watched Blake Jenner chuck the ball behind him to Charlie Lubeck who immediately got knocked off of his feet by Reece. "-Maybe later." She mumbled, watching carefully as her brother stood up and smirked down at the McKinley player.
"Okay." Jake nodded, masking his disappointment with a smile.
The game carried on like always, rough and dangerous. The player's didn't stop tackling each other as hard as they possibly could, a few player's had been sent off due to injury and by the time the first three quarters were up, both teams were lacking energy.
When the player's started heading to the locker rooms for half time, Nellie and Lindsay quickly got up from their seats to rush over to Reece and Damian, it was usually half time when a fight would break out on the way to the locker rooms.
"Reece!" Nellie yelled and rushed toward him, "How you feeling?" She asked softly, looking at the mud covering him and the slight cut above his eyebrow.
"Fine." He grumbled, though he obviously wasn't.
Nellie sighed and stepped toward him, "How's your knee feeling?" She asked softly, knowing he always had trouble with his knee after he fell on it wrong in their freshman year.
"It's fine Nellie." He frowned, but didn't object when she put her arms around him so he could rest some of his weight on her.
"Alright." She nodded, not wanting to hurt his ego by letting him admit defeat. "Let's go-"
"Giving up already Veitenheimer?" Blake Jenner's voice interrupted her words and the two siblings looked up to see Blake smirking at them.
Reece glared at his opponent, shuffling away from Nellie slightly. "Why? You getting tired?"
"Asif," Blake rolled his eyes, smirking across at him.
"Reece-" Nellie said softly as she watched her brother's body harden and she could tell he was getting angrier by the second, it wouldn't be long before he threw the first punch. "Please." She pleaded.
Blake frowned and looked toward the petite girl stood next to his enemy, it was his sister and was she trying to stop him from fighting? Blake had never seen that before - A Knight trying to stop a fight - well apart from last weekend when she had intervened before a fight had barely started.
"Go back to the trash bag you crawled out of before I make you wish you hadn't stepped foot on the field tonight." Reece hissed, ignoring Nellie's pleading tone.
"Reece, don't do this."
Blake's glare returned as he growled slightly at the slightly shorter boy, but his eyes flicked back to the girl as she spoke softly to her brother, her eyes pleading with him, but Reece carried on ignoring her as he kept his fierce glare fixed on Blake.
"Whatever," Blake snapped, pulling his eyes away from the small girl and setting his angry one back on Reece. "You're not worth it tonight. We're gonna kick your ass in the game anyway." He snapped and turned, walking away from them without another word.
As Blake walked into the locker rooms, he was immediately bombarded with hugs and cheers from his teammates, but his mind kept straying back to look in the girls dark eyes and he so badly wished he could remember her name. Shelly? Kerrie? Kelly? He cursed himself for forgetting the name that Shanna had told him just days before.
So, what did you think? I kind of liked this chapter, some blellie interaction even if they didn't say a word to each other! But, I'm thinking next chapter there will be some! yay! :) The next update will probably be after christmas now because I am headed to my dad's house tomorrow and then I'm going out Saturday night and I'll be too hungover to update anything on Sunday.. oops... hahah, yeah and then it'll be christmas! So, you'll have to wait til probably Thursday or Friday for the next chapter!
Hope you enjoyed this one, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it, hint, hint ;) I hope you all have a happy Christmas and spend some quality time with your families and friends! :)