Hiya,

Thank You everyone who is reading and reviewing this story. In this chapter i put in a little of my friends personalitys and how we act when we're together so i hope you enjoy. (Yes anna, i know who you are and yes this is the chapter you helped me write.)(ThReE AqUiLa, i dont know how your grading system works but on a Higher paper at G.C.S.E level you can get A* - C, normally only the 1st and 2nd sets do this paper.)(Ichihime i set this after snakehead so please tell me if there is an inconsistency.)

Chapter 5

"Sorry I'm late coach"

"Luke explained, Start warming up" was the only reply he got before Mr Dean, who everyone on the football team called coach, started yelling at Dan for losing the ball due to loss of control. Alex kept the smirk of his face as Dan turned bright red, he glanced at the benches and, sure enough, a few girls were sat their watching the team go though the starting exercises.

Surely they have something better to do, Alex thought, but then again obviously not. He was just finishing the warm up exercises, when he felt something coming towards him,

"Heads up Alex!" He heard Luke and Tom scream at the same time. He took in the situation in a second, the ball was travelling to fast, if he ducked, it would most likely hit one of the girls sat on the benches, if it hit him on the back of the head it would hurt like hell, so he did the only thing he could.

Alex turned and twisted his body and jumped so the football, that was travelling at abnormal speed, hit him hard on the chest, pain shot though him but he ignored it, the ball fell to the floor and he kicked it back to it's owner, who was stood white faced, the ball rolled to a stop in front of him. Everyone looked at Alex, because he was away so often it was easy to forget that until his uncle died he had been No. 1 on the team, no one knew where he stood now because he was barley there anymore.

"OMG" everyone stared moving at once, Sam, the one who had kicked the football, was running white faced towards Alex, the coach, and what looked like half the squad, was close behind him, but tom arrived first

"I saw where that hit, are you ok?" he asked quickly not realising that Luke was right behind him, Luke frowned in confusion,

"yeah, talk later" Alex said swiftly as Sam reached them and stared apologising immediately and coach and rest of the team crowded around Alex, some asking if he were ok others congratulating him on his quick thinking. Alex assured them all he was ok, and waited patiently for the crowd to disperse.

"Did you see that?" Nancy said for the 5th time.

"For the 5th time, yes, we did" said a frustrated Melissa looking up form her book.

"Well you obvious didn't" muttered Angharad sarcastically

"excuse me?" was Melissa incredulous reply.

"OMG he's so hot" gushed rose

"hands off, he's mine" said a deadly serious Nicole,

"oh, you can have him" Anna joked "but Luke's mine"

"yeah Nicole you always go for the drugged up one" Cherise laughed

"do you really believe that?" Melissa contemplated quietly. The group all stopped and turned to look at Alex as one. Alex's' head snapped to look at them as if he had sensed their gaze. The whole group bust in to laugher with a single voice heard clearly above them all

"what are we laughing at?" Samantha's timing was impeccable as usual. Nearly all rolled their eyes but a few sent sympathetic glances in her direction. The boys all froze their heads slowly turning to look at the unluckily 13 who were caught gossiping about them. The few sympathetic glances turned to glares as the group realised that they in turn were being watch.

"Sam" said Carrianne in an agitated tone.

"SHUT UP" the whole group shouted in unison.

The boys smirked and continued with their exercises, Alex half heartedly joined in, keeping the girls in his line of vision, he had had a horrible feeling that they had been talking about him a few minutes ago, but he didn't think it was as a drug addicted/gang member until they had cracked up, then he had a scary thought, opinions could have changed within the school, it might be something good, he laugher darkly to himself, as if.

Football continued as normal, or as normal as it could get with 13 girls on the sidelines. After the warm up and skill practice sessions the coach called for game and everybody ran to their positions. All except Alex, who slowly made his way to the coach. He was halfway there when the coach yelled

"Alex, Forward, Ben, Goalie, Sam, Bench." All stood and stared at him, "NOW." The 3 of them moved a once, Alex and Ben taking their old positions and Sam, who Alex thought was fairly new to the team, sat angrily on the bench.

No-one knew what to make of this new development, Alex looked wary and alert, Ben looked happy back in his old position as goalie, while Sam had resorted to arguing with the coach about it.

"He's hardly ever here"

"My decision is final" their voices were loud enough to be heard by the entire team and the girls sat on the sidelines, but only a few of them seemed to be paying attention to the argument Alex noted, but they were not yelling at each other, yet, thought Alex

"But he's…"

"I've heard enough, and I don't care what rumours surround him". The coach added as he saw Sam about to open his mouth again. The game progressed and Alex's team won with a final score of 4-2. As everyone started to run toward the changing room, Alex walked slowly wanting to prolong the inevitable.

He saw Tom look around for him and nod his head in the direction of the changing room, Alex nodded. He sighed as he saw tom run to catch up with the others, he would listen to their gossip and relay it to Alex later. Luke also looked around and seeing Alex quite far back waited for him to catch up.

The girls who had stayed to watch the football match carefully got to their feet and started to head towards the gate,

"I'll be right back" Melissa said hesitantly

"I'll come" Angharad said having a general idea of what she was going to do. Melissa and Angharad set of at a run after dumping their bags on Cherise. The group watched them curiously.

"Where are they going?" asked Molly

"To talk to Alex" Cherise sighed.