A/N- Thank you all SO MUCH for the reviews so far! I love reading them, they're all so positive, haha. Enjoy chapter chapter 5! Quick note- the name of Emma's school came from the Kenan and Kel show, NOT Me, it belongs to them as well as everything else in the story except Emma, her mom's side of the family and her friends at school. Again, enjoy!-
-Capone Jr. High School, 2:30pm, Main Gym, No POV-
"Alright, welcome to the 7th Grade Girls Basketball tryouts! Unless you did track last year in 6th grade, for all of you this is your first time trying out for sports here. Basically I'm going to have you doing a couple drills like free-shooting, lay ups, all that stuff, then I'll get a feel for how you play by dividing you into two teams to play a 15 minute game, you should be out by 3:30 for those of you looking to catch to activity bus, but for now, let's warm up and give me 10 laps around the gym, go!" Miss Ryan, the 7th Grade Girls Basketball head coach said to a group of 7th grade girls wanting to be lucky enough to get on the team.
The girls all started doing 10 laps around the gym- Cassidy, Emma and Kayla all running together. At first, Emma was rather slow, but then through the corner of her eye, she saw the team manager, Blake Giroux, walk into the gym and lean against one of the walls. HE was why Emma wanted to join the team, the only reason. That perked her up, and she started running faster and was the third person to complete the ten laps.
Overall, tryouts were tough, a LOT of good Basketball players showed up and it would be tough for Miss Ryan to narrow the team down, though she could easily pick off two girls- Kayla and Cassidy. They both flat out SUCKED and actually made Emma look like Derrick Rose. Emma was good, but not Derrick Rose good, of course. Surprisingly, Emma was great though. She had nearly perfect layups, and when she did the free throws….
"None of them even have their stance right! It's no wonder over half of them aren't getting the shot," Emma complained about the girls. She just shook her head, seeing how bad they were. She knew even she could do better.
"Gonzalez! You're up!" Miss Ryan said, passing a ball to Emma, who caught it, then walked to the free-throw line.
Emma separated and bended her legs, then focused on her aim and the net, then followed through and the ball went right into the net, much to the shock of everyone. Emma had one more shot. She did the same as she did the first time, and just like the first time, it went in.
"Nice job, Gonzalez!" Miss Ryan praised Emma, who grew a smile on her face as she jogged back over to Kayla and Cassidy. "BOWEN! You're next!"
"Oh my gosh, you're actually good!" Kayla said to Emma, mouth dropped.
"Well it's not that hard…" Emma shrugged.
"Not that hard?" Cassidy practically laughed. "I missed BOTH of my shots!"
"You didn't have the right aim or stance!" Emma told her.
"There's a certain aim AND stance!" Cassidy asked. "My gosh…."
Emma rolled her eyes at her friends as she watched the remaining girls take their free-throws. After that, Miss Ryan divided the girls up into teams of two. Emma was separated from Cassidy and Kayla and put on Haylee Winter's team. Emma already knew Haylee would not only be on the team, but she would probably be captain. Haylee and Emma were MAGIC. Both of them led their team to CRUSHING their other team, even though it was a 15 minute exhibition game.
"Alright, girls! Next Monday I'll have the roster posted on the bulletin board outside the locker room, you can check it out before Gym Class, whenever you have it. Until then, hit the locker room, the activity bus leaves in 15 minutes!" Miss Ryan said.
Emma ran off into the locker room first. She knew she had to get home quick since today was the big day for her- She was moving into Phil's house. Since Phil was injured, she would have to really pitch in to help move all her stuff. Emma was so excited. She got to stay in Chicago and would get to live with Phil. She'd have someone to guide her and care about her unlike her parents, but since Phil's...well, Phil, she'll clearly still be able to do what she wanted. She already loves it.
Emma hurried up and changed- Blue Skinny Jeans, White T-shirt covered by a Black Hoodie and some black uggs. She locked up her gym locker then ran out of the gym and started running down the hall toward her regular locker, then opened it up and grabbed her backpack, then her cell phone. She slammed her locker shut then started walking back so she could head out the door while turning her cell phone on and calling her mom.
"Hey, Mom? I just got done with tryouts, are you outside?... Alright, I'll be outside by the benches…I love you, too, bye," Emma said, then sighing and hanging her phone up. She walked outside then sat on a bench, waiting for her mom to show up.
She waited nearly ten minutes for her mom to show up in a Van, which got Emma confused at first since neither her or Tony owned a van.
"What's up with the Van?" Emma asked, hopping in the front seat next to her mom.
"Look in the back," Charlotte told her, pulling out of the Middle School and back onto the street. Emma did as her mom said and looked back, and saw bags of Emma's clothes in the back. "Tony's with Aiden loading the bigger stuff in the Van he rented, oh and Phil said he was getting you a new bed."
"A new bed?" Emma asked, then a smile grew on her face. "Nice."
"You know since he's injured you have to put it up, right?" Charlotte said to her, adjusting her sun glasses on her face.
"Eh, I'm strong, I can do it," Emma smiled, finally buckling up. Illinois has strict laws about seatbelts, and Emma even got her mom in trouble with an officer once for not buckling up. She has yet to forget to buckle up since that incident.
The drive to Wicker Park seemed shorter than it was before, but whatever. When they got there, Emma noticed Tony and Aiden were already there- as well as Colt Cabana, who must be helping since Phil's injured. After they pulled into the driveway of Phil's loft, Emma saw the door was wide open, probably because the men were going back and forth through the house with Emma's stuff. Emma hopped out of her mom's car and into the house, running straight up stairs and down the hall into the room that would soon be hers.
"Oh…my…gosh," She said, in complete awe.
The room was pretty big, a LOT bigger than her old room. The walls were white, but that was fine, because pretty soon, those walls would be covered in Justin Bieber posters. In the far right corner was a bed, which was of course hers. That was all that was in there so far, however. Emma just hopped on her bed, and just laid there, then started reflecting. Last week, she found out her father was CM Punk, currently one of the best wrestlers in professional wrestling. A week later, she's moving in with him, full time. Not a once a week thing, a full time thing. Things were going pretty fast.
Emma was brought out of her thoughts as Tony and Colt brought in a big desk, with Aiden shortly behind with Emma's desk chair and red beanie bag chair.
"Alright, where do you want this to go?" Tony asked.
"Uh, how about the desk next to the door and the beanie bag next to the desk, leaving enough room for my tv," Emma said, getting off of her bed. The men, and Aiden, did as Emma asked, then after, Colt looked down at Emma and smiled.
"Damn, you're really small, kiddo," Colt smirked, looking down at her.
"4 feet and 10 inches," Emma just smiled.
"Even I'm almost taller!" Aiden said, who was only 2 inches shorter.
"Hopefully you both hit that growth spurt soon," Colt commented, before heading back downstairs, as well as Tony, leaving just Aiden and Emma. Emma just flopped down onto her beanie bag chair, while Aiden just shrugged.
"You know, I'm really gonna miss you," He shrugged. Emma looked at him real quick.
"Really?" She asked, rather shocked.
"You're my older sister, of course I am!" Aiden shrugged again. Emma got off of her beanie bag chair and got face to face with him.
"We can always video chat if you REALLY miss me," Emma said.
"It still won't be the same," Aiden looked down.
Emma just looked at her little brother, and he eventually looked back up at her, then they hugged, right as Phil walked past the room. He stopped and observed real quick, then bit his lower lip before heading the other way to go grab more of Emma's stuff, but was stopped by Tony.
"Philip," Tony said, looking at Phil pretty hard.
"Antonio…." Phil said, looking hard at Tony as well.
"You better not do anything bad to my daughter," Tony said to him.
"I'll be way better then you could ever be for her," Phil told Tony, who just rolled his eyes and was about to go back into Emma's room, but Phil stopped him real quick. "Oh, and don't forget this, but Emma's my daughter, NOT yours."
It was 10pm now. Emma's room had officially gotten filled with all of Emma's stuff, her desk, chairs, TV, dresser, clothes, and of course, her posters. Everything was falling into place for both Emma and Phil, and right now, they were both out in Phil's living room watching 'Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' while also enjoying some Strawberry ice cream.
"That Rodrick kid has some pretty good taste in music," Phil said, with a slight smirk on his face as he finished his ice cream.
"He's an idiot," Emma rolled her eyes, also finishing her ice cream.
"As if that Greg kid's any better?" Phil asked her, raising an eyebrow.
"They're both a bunch of idiots," Emma rolled her eyes again as Phil just laughed.
"You know, it's getting pretty late, you should head to bed," Phil said, catching Emma's attention.
"But it's only 10pm!" Emma protested.
"Which is PERFECT time for a 12 year old to go to bed, don't you think?" Phil asked.
"It's Friday though!" Emma protested again, right before yawning. Phil just smirked at her as Emma sighed. "I'll see you tomorrow morning…." She sighed in defeat.
"Good night," Phil said, before Emma hugged him good night, then went upstairs.
Phil sat there on his couch with a smile on his face. This parenting stuff was EASY. He couldn't figure out why some people complained about it. However, it wouldn't take long for him to realize how hard raising a child was….