The first day had gone mostly smoothly, with no major slip ups except for knocking over a beautiful blonde. It was weird because every time I thought about her, it was always beautiful blonde not Olivia. The guys were becoming more friendly and open, now that I was part of the team.
The lessons were alright so far on my second day but I was bored in all and couldn't wait to get onto the field for practice at the end of the day with the guys.
It was lunch and I spotted the guys, Duke was waving me over. I may have been part of the team but I wasn't part of the group just yet. I had to somehow make them like me, more than a teammate – a friend.
'Hey guys.' I said, smiling.
'Heya.' Toby said, looking up, nudging Andrew. 'Look who it is!'
'Duke, don't faint but look.' Andrew said with grin.
Duke shoved him and told him to shut up but he couldn't stop looking at the figure behind me. Intrigued, I turned and found myself looking at the beautiful blonde. Olivia was in the lunch queue with a bunch of girlfriends, looking happy.
'You like her?' I asked, but it was pretty obvious from Duke's face that he was completely head over heels for Olivia.
'Yeah, he totally loves her.' Steve said with a grin at the captain.
The whole team were smirking at Duke's gaze at Olivia, he seemed completely entranced. He then shook himself out of it and glared at all the guys.
'Olivia Lennox.' Toby said, thoughtfully. 'Too good for the likes of us, she went out with a guy older than us. Mature. He broke up with her and ever since she's been staying away from guys.'
'She wants to find a guy like him who could probably do everything.' Phillip said with a wink.
'But our Duke here thinks he can do just as well.' Gavin said with a laugh, as he looked at Duke who was getter more red and angry.
'You know, I imagine that the song in Duke's head every time he sees her is probably…' Toby thought, and then there was a glint in his eyes as if he came up with an ingenious idea. 'I'll make love to you, like you want me to.'
At those starting words of Boys II Men, all the guys on the table began to sing except for Duke and I. Duke was looking livid, especially when the rest of the canteen were looking at our table, some laughing and others joining in. I felt sorry for him, so I told the guys to die it down a little. Eventually they did but receiving whistles and claps from the surrounding tables.
'You guys are jerks.' Duke declared furiously.
'Come on, chill out.' Phillip said, rolling his eyes. 'It's a joke.'
Duke grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him close so they were pretty much face to face.
'It's a joke?! How funny do you think it will be when I kick your ass?' Duke growled.
Again being the mediator, I pushed Duke off Phillip who was being a bit of a dick when he smirked at Duke. Toby and Andrew tried to calm him down, slowly he calmed down but still flicked dangerous eyes towards Phillip who just smirked and sauntered off to another table, followed by others members of the team until it was just me, Duke, Andrew and Toby.
'Why don't you ask her out?' I asked, tentatively.
'He's scared.' Toby said simply, but earned a death glared from Duke. 'Come on, dude. Don't look at me like that. If it wasn't that then you would have asked her out.'
'Shut up.' I said, getting angry myself at the guy's attitude, Duke was a nice guy and having a go at him wouldn't help with his confidence to approach Olivia.
The guys looked at me surprised but did so and Duke gave me an appreciative nod while Toby changed the subject and we started talking about our first game which was going to be in a month and two weeks' time.