Chapter 17 Practice day 1

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School was the same old for the boys, but after school was the best because they had football practice.
Coach would make them line up side by side and have them do hardcore drills to better there skills for the up coming national championship.
"WHEN I BLOW MY WHISTLE YALL ARE GONNA HUSTLE THROUGH THE CONES AND RUN BACK WITH HIGH KNEES!" He yelled at them in an informing way
after the whistle was blown the boys did the drills up and down the field sweating their asses off.

Zara and Angel had showed up to watch. Angel had been following her everywhere and Zara tried to ignore her but she kept trying to make conversation.
Angel had a dry and quiet personality. So it was even harder to keep a conversation with her so it was even worse when she tried to start them.

Two hours ago at lunch
"Hey how's life been." She spoke awkwardly to Zara at lunch
"Good..??" Zara answered with an awkward smile
"That's cool... so how are you grades going?" Angel questioned again
"Uhmm.... ok???" She uttered with confusion on her face as she ate her food.

She hadn't seen the boys all morning because as soon as they reached school they had to go to practice.
So she tried moving tables to go eat some where else and just as she turned around Angel was right behind her with a smile.
"Listen why don't we just part our separate ways"
Zara suggested
"My mother said we are family and that we should stick together. Why don't you agree?"
"I don't know bro maybe it's cuz you showed up on my porch and ruined my morning." Zara uttered in an annoyed tone.

"I didn't have a dad for 16 years, I only recently found out he was a dead beat and not dead. So my dad abandoned me and didn't think twice about it.
Imagine how I feel?" Angel expressed sadly as she picked up her tray of food and stormed out of the cafeteria.
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Entirely after Zara felt bad and decided to hang out with her overall.
Maybe a sister won't be that bad after all. She thought to herself.

"That's him." Zara smiled pointing at Owen
"Wow... he is really hot." Angel gushed eyeing Owens him shirtless, even though sweat was dripping from his body it was still so hot. He was wearing a crop top and a grey thick head band.
Zara waved at him. And he waved back

"Yo when did Zara start showing up to practice?" Leo  blurted as he stood with in a circle of Zayn, Marty and Owen.
"I told her she can come it's cool." Owen responded keeping his eye on Zara.
"Who's the brown chick next to her." Marty intervened
" I'm not sure-" Owen replied turning his attention to Angel
however he got interrupted by his coach.
"BOYS GET YOUR ASS BACK IN THE GAME JEEZ WE HAVE A NATIONALS NEXT WEEK!" He barked at them as they jogged back to the field.

"Who is the guy besides him?" Angel asked
"Oh. That's Leo, one of his best friends.... wait. Do you like him?" Zara nudged her shoulders raising her eyebrows at Angels question.
"Absolutely not." Angel replied quickly in defence "he is just cute to me that's all." She added
"You guys would be adorable !!! I hundred percent ship it." Zara joked poking her in a friendly annoying way. She really did feel bad for what happened at lunch and hoped that her niceness was some sort of apology. However Angel was still awkward and didn't know how to socialize properly.

Back to the boys the first scrimmage started.
"ALRIGHT WE PLAYING BLUE42 EVERYONE GET INTO PLACES!" The coach yelled and the boys
jogged over to the separate teams of 11.

Leo - Quarterback              
Marty- full running back
Cody - half running back
Angelo- wide receiver
Darren- wide receiver
Ralph- tackle guard             The rest of the team was
Elliot-tackle guard.               On defence.
Cameron -tackle guard
Lewis-tackle guard
Landon-tackle guard
Logan-tackle guard

"BLUE 42 BLUE 42! READY SET HUT!" the ball gets thrown to Leo while Cody goes out wide to receive the ball holding his hands out letting everyone know that Leo is passing it to him. The defence team turns their attention towards Cody but Leo faked the pass and threw it to Marty and he bolted down the field stopping him in his tracks Owen tackled him before he had a chance to get a touched down.

Marty is really small so he hit pretty hard as the team shocked at how he fell.
"Marty you good bro?" Owen asked patting his back
"Yea I'm good." When he responded he seemed a little mad
" Sorry bro I didn't mean to hit you that hard." Owen stated trying to shake his hand. Marty shoved his hand out of the way and stormed back to his side of him team members and they gave him a pat on the back for support.

"What was that about?" Angel asked
"I'm not sure." Zara replied looking at the tension between both teams.

The game continued and Leo was trying plays that involved Marty getting the ball and each and every time he would get tackled by at least one of the guys on the team.

"We might have to switch it up. Because they know we're gonna keep passing it to Marty. So I'll take ball and tackle guards stay with me and support me as I run." Leo informed his team members in a clear stern tone.
"BREAK." They  spoke loudly all at the same time and went to there positions.

"READY SET HUT" as Leo yelled his chant and was given the ball. Marty coming to it again hard as he fake passed it to him which he made look real and bolted down the field as the tackle guards were pushing anyone out of the way.
Marty noticed Owen being in the same position he always was and ran up to him and tripped him before he got the chance to tackle Leo.

Leo managed to score a touch down. He slammed the ball on the grounded and jumped around with his team mates.

Zara and Angel were cheering from the bleachers.
Soon after they all went home.

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