Lizzie
I looked around and saw everyone standing there and I smiled as I ran to hug the guys from my team in the middle of them all. "You ignored my birthday with a reason." I scream and they laugh as they hug me. I look around and see everyone standing and I giggle. I turn to Oliver, who is now behind me and give him a tight hug. "You all tricked me." I scream and they all laugh. Suddenly Sabine and Freyja bring in a huge box and put it on the ground. "This is the gift from all of us." Freyja says and I kneel, opening the box. I let out a little scream of happiness and pick up the two hairy cats. "Siberian cats." Ezra tells me and I smile as I pet them. One is Black and grey, the other white and grey. I smile as I pet the little ones and look up to everyone, smiling at me. I smile and hand one to Ezra and the other one to Joe. I look up and see everyone walking to me with gifts. The music goes on as I open all the gifts and thank everyone. I get a lot of stuff I really like, and the row gets shorter and shorter, when suddenly the last one is in front of me. Eefje. I look at her and smile. "Hey." She silently says and I smile. "Hey." I say and she hands me a little package. I open it and it contains my favourite MAC lipstick, Instigator. I look at her happily. "Ezra told me you were almost out of stock and that you were too busy to get a new one, so I thought I would get it for you." She says and I smile and hug her. After that I walk to the huge group who are playing with the cats. I smile as they let me through and I smile as the black one walks immediately to me, purring softly. Ezra looks at me. "Both are girls. Sabine convinced us it was the best." He tells me and I smile. The cat lays on my lap and I pet her with a huge smile. "I call her Molly." I say and then look to the white one. "And that one is Marmalade." I say and Ezra smiles as Marmalade plays with Enrique and Eefje. I laugh as Marmalade climbs or Enrique's head and looks like a little queen as she washed herself.
Hours later we take the shuttle back to the gaming house, the cats on my lap. Molly is already super attached to me and Marmalade is everyone's little friend. At this moment Marmalade sleeps on Aidan's legs. I smile as the shuttle stops and I lift Molly and bring her inside before helping the guys to unload my gifts. I smile as Ezra hands me all the cat attributes I got from everyone and lift them inside. I bring it all to my room and smile as I see that Molly immediately climbs on my bed and falls asleep again with Marmalade next to her. As soon as we are done, I go to my room and pet them. They purr in their sleep and I smile. I start putting up the cat play pole as Ezra walks in with a little package. "I forgot to give you this." He says and I open it. It contains food and water containers and I smile. "Thanks." I say as I hug him.
The weekend goes by quickly. Saturday we a had a small party with friends, Sunday we spend streaming and trolling on League, and then soon, Monday arrived. We were scrimming against Vitality and thinking about new strategies for the play offs, when suddenly Oliver walked in with Luis. I nod and keep playing. It was the last game, since we were 2-0 and wining this one too. I ulted on Vitality and not much later we ended the game. I rose as I closed League and went over to Luis. I gave him a quick hug before turning to Oliver. "My room?" I ask and he nods. We walk to the my room and pet Molly, who is sleeping on my bed, really quickly. He smiles. "Oliver showed me around already. So can we get to the basics now?" He asks and I nod. "It is easy Luis. People are specific, and so are we. And we need a specific person who is supporting the way of life we want to live." I start and he looks at me. "We sport at least twice a week here, eat mostly healthy, only on Saturdays we don't, then it is snack day. We need someone to analyse our games, but also to support our players in their healthy lifestyle." I explain and he nods. "I have a question, regarding my…" He starts but Oliver shuts him of. "She is welcome here too. In fact, we would love to have her here. And if she wants to cook, she is welcome in the kitchen anytime. We continued the Fnatic thing, I cook at lunch, and at night the one that is the least tired cooks then." Oliver explains and he nods. "I would like the job very much." He says and I smile. "And we would like you very much Luis." I say and he smiles. "When do you have to leave the Fnatic game house?" I ask and he sighs. "Tomorrow. It isn't much stuff I have, nor does she." He says and I look at Oliver. "Go pack them. We'll pick you up tonight. I will move in with Ezra, and Alfie can move in with Aidan." I say and Oliver looks at me. "And Oliver here?" He asks and I nod. "We still have the moving boxes. I will pack these and store them beneath the stairs." I say and Oliver nods. Luis looks at me. "Wait, you are gonna stay there forever?" He asks and I shake my head. "Hopefully, if we leave for Krakow, Ezra's dad is going to supervise a staff building. It will be one with a basement, so it is pretty huge and we all have our own bedrooms and stuff. Then we can move in our subs to this house. I will move to the staff house too." I say and he nods. "Well, I will pack then, how late will you pick me up?" He asks and I look at Oliver. "We eat at 7.30pm." He says and I nod. "We'll be there at 6.30pm." I say and he nods. "Thank you." He says, giving me a hug and then Oliver. "I guess we are a team again." He says, petting Molly. I smile as they walk out together. I lift Molly and walk to the scrimroom. "Well guys, we have a new coach." I announce and they cheer. Marmalade is sleeping in Ezra's lap and I smile as I see how lazy they are.
That night we are in the van to get Luis and his girlfriend. I sit in the bus with Oliver, smiling as we park in front of the gaming house. I walk to the door and ring. The buzz goes off so I walk in, up the stairs. I see an open door and walk in carefully. There is Luis and his gf saying their goodbyes to the guys. Martin walks up to me. "Weird to be back?" He asks and I shake my head. "At least this time you remember it." He jokes and I stick out my tongue. "Rude." He fakes being insulted. I smile and look at Luis coming at us, hugging Martin. "I will miss you." He says and Martin gives him a hug. "I will miss my breakfast buddy too." Martin jokes and Luis smiles. His gf walks up to Martin and gives him a hug too. "Goodbye." She says softly. We go downstairs and load in their stuff. I walk back to get the last suitcase, when Quaye stops me. "Take good care of them for me." He says and I nod. "I will, I promise." I say and he hugs me. "Have fun with them. Luis is really strong, it's a pity Fabian and him clashed so often." He says and I smile. "Yeah we've been admiring his way of seeing strategies and making us wonder what would be the better alternative for ages now. We are so happy he said yes." I explain and he smiles. "He'll be better off with you." He says and I smile. "Thanks Finlay." I say as I walk to the van. I load in the suitcase and get in the van, on the passenger seat. Luis and his gf are in the backseat, waving at the guys in front of their apartment complex. As we drive away, we wave at them. About 30 minutes later, we park in front of our house. Everyone runs out to help with the luggage and the delicious smell of baked potatoes and steak hit my nostrils. I look at a proud looking Freyja. "I didn't set the house on fire with baking the steak." She smiles happily and I laugh, giving her a hug. Luis looks around as we bring his luggage to my old room and his girlfriend helps us set the table. I smile as everyone gets along. "We must get to worlds with a team like this." I say to Oliver and he nods.
Not much later I am proved right. In the play-offs, we win against Fnatic, surprisingly. Fnatic made so many mistakes, and we were always there to profit from them. It was a 3-1, only dropping one game because I started with the wrong item. Luis and Sabine were ecstatic. "We might not win against Splyce, but we'll go win against the unicorns. Not a chance that they beat G2." Sabine told us happily after we won against Fnatic. We smiled as we cheered. Not only were we in the race for worlds, but also to finish high. Luis proved himself, every time we needed him to. His training schedule was almost precisely Sabine's and soon he bloomed with all kinds of strategies. Our sudden boost of confidence and aggressiveness didn't go unnoticed. We managed to go 2-3 against Splyce, placing us in the match for 3rd place with the Unicorns of Love. We were all already in shock. We never thought we would be able to make it to the play-offs, hell we thought we would be relegated by now. But here we are, heading out to Krakow soon.
To celebrate our small victories, we went out for dinner. Ezra and I were chilling out on the complete leftside of the table, while Sabine and Freyja drink some alcoholic drink. Erik, Aidan, Joe and Luis were armwrestling. Ezra suddenly looked up as a huge cake came our way. I look at him. "This must've been ordered by one of the guys." I say but Luis smiles as it's put down and the little firework-thingy is lit. "I ordered this because you've been so great and welcoming to me and my love. You not only had to adapt with a new crewmember right before play-offs, but also we had to finetune on so many levels. Suddenly I was in a totally new household, but saw you all tried so hard. When I was going through the cabinets to search for some granola, I saw you had no sweets or whatsoever. When I talked to Oliver, I heard that you kicked out all the sweets so I had less problems to adapt. So this is my little give back to you." He says and I look at the huge cake. He hands me the knife. "C'mon, cut it!" Ezra says and I cut myself a huge piece. Everyone laughs as I stuff it in my mouth. I giggle and cut another piece, shoving it into Ezra's open mouth. We all laugh and everyone gets a piece for themselves. I look around and smile happily. This split went better than I could've ever imagined. All but on one platform. That platform is love.
I love Eefje 'Sjokz' Depoortere, the most straight girl in this scene and the most unreachable for me…