Serendipity

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Emma's POV

"When do Jessie and the rest of the Canadian's land?" Ash asks as we walk into the team chill room.

"They land in Auckland in a couple hours." I say as I hold the door open for Shadow.

"Sweet." Ash says.

"Emma we're ready for you." One of the team media people says.

"Alright." I say then I walk over and stand in front of the camera were using for team bonding.

The national team and I are now in Australia to play our January friendlies against Australia and New Zealand.

We got here yesterday so Vlatko's letting us have today and tomorrow off to get rid of the jet lag.

"Emma can I clarify something with you?" Sonnett asks.

"Sure." I say as someone from the USWNT media team mic's me up.

"Was the reason you cried after the Canada game because of Jessie's..."

"Yeah." I say as everyone looks at me. "Her due date would have been that day."

Nobody really knows what to say so we just move on to filming the video.

"Hi everyone and welcome to the Guess the Song Challenge." I say then I look at the people behind the camera "At least I think that's what this is called."

"It is." Ash mouths.

"Cool." I say then I look back at the camera. "So if you don't know by know, my name is Emma Harris and I'm pretty sure I was roped into being the host of this video because the team wanna hear me sing."

"Pretty much." Everyone says.

The whole team is watching the video being made.

"Well okay then." I say then I motion to my shirt. "As you can tell I'm wearing my UCLA crop top hoodie."

"GO BRUINS." Sam shouts making me chuckle.

"Well the reason I'm wearing this is because of who the contestants are." I say then the 6 contestants come stand around me.

The 6 contestants are Christen, Catarina, Jane, Tierna, Sophia, Kelley

"I'm surrounded by Stanford people." I say.

"GO CARDINALS." Kelley shouts.

"You're mascot's a damn tree." I say. "Chill."

"Children." Hope warns from behind the camera.

"Sorry." Kelley and I say.

"Are we in teams?" Jane asks.

"Uh." I say then I look down at the card I was handed. "Team 1 is Sophia, Jane, Catarina and Team 2 is Christen, Tierna, Kelley."

"We're gonna win." Kelley says as the teams separate then we all sit down in chairs.

"So." I say as I look at the card and pet Shadow's head. "The rules are you have to buzz in to answer and you have to say a line in the song to get the point...But I get final say on if I'll allow the line."

"What does that mean?" Catarina asks.

"So if you say a line in a song and I think it's wrong then I can google the song and see if that's the actual line." I say.

"Ah." Catarina says then I'm handed another card.

"Okay instead of buzzer noises how about you just say your name." I say.