Jamie Johnson Fanfic!

Ruby

"But why would Liam steal Kat's necklace?" Perrie wondered aloud to Dillon in the cafe; all around them, conversations of the same sort of topic could be heard from other members of Phoenix.

"He said he didn't steal it, so I believe him." Dillon said, taking a sip of his drink.

"I believe him to, I guess, but what is going on with him and Eric? I saw them fighting at training today, but Duncan split them up."

Dillon shook his head. "I have no idea, but they better sort this out before the Under 13s vs Under 16s game."

Perrie thought she misheard. "The what?"

"Mike set up a game between us and the younger team. For confidence or something." He said, shrugging.

At that moment, Kat and Ruby walked in, having a conversation about something to do with the necklace. Perrie strained her ears to listen.

"Sorry about your necklace, Zoe said it meant a lot to you." Ruby said.

"Yeah, although to be honest I thought she might have stolen the necklace just to get back at me."

"That can't be true. She actually just went back to look for it."

"But the pendant's gone down the drain."

"She obviously doesn't think so."

Perrie cut in. "Wait so, they found the necklace? It wasn't Liam?"

"Yeah." Kat replied. "But the pendant got lost." She said, her face clouding over.

"Oh. I'm sorry, Kat." Perrie replied.

"Anyway," Ruby said, dragging Kat away, and Perrie couldn't hear the rest of the conversation.

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"We all know the Under-13s have not had an easy season. So I need you guys to go out there and let them win." Mike said, the day after, as they sat in the changing room.

"You want us to lose? On purpose?" Dillon said incredulously.

"It will give them confidence! You lot need some match training." Mike explained. They'd all thought they were going to go out there and have a normal game with the Under-13s but they didn't know how wrong they were.

"Just act like you're trying to win, ok?" They all nodded.

"Now. Time to announce who's going to be wearing this." He held up the one thing they all wanted. The captain's armband.

As they ran onto the pitch, the small crowd of Dillons's dad, Ruby and Alba's mums and a few other people clapped and Perrie felt the weight of her armband on her arm.
"Go on my sons!" Dillon's dad yelled as his children rolled their eyes.

The ref blew his whistle and the game was underway. Kat and Zoe were playing well together, even though Kat had lost her pendant. which was her lucky charm.

Suddenly, Dillon did a brilliant pass to Perrie, who's role as centre-forward meant she was through on goal. But then she remembered that she had to lose. But she was through on goal, if she lost now it would look suspicious. No. She had to go for it. Just one goal wouldn't hurt, would it? The Under-13s could win it back.

Suddenly, in the crowd, she glimpsed the figure of Boggy, and next to him Jamie. Jamie whom she'd ran over. Guilt overwhelmed her for the hundredth time that week and she lost concentration and slowed down slightly, allowing for Alba to swoop in and steal the ball. Gaining concentration and snapping back to reality, Perrie tackled Alba to retrieve the ball, but she must have tripped over her legs as she went flying forwards.

"Hey!" It was Ruby. Perrie, offering Alba (who was fine) her hand, rolled her eyes as Ruby ran onto the pitch.

"You did that on purpose." she yelled, marching up to them like she owned the pitch.

"It was a perfectly good tackle, and back off! You're not even on the team."

"Yeah but my sister's on the opposite team and you just knocked her over."

"Oh you mean your sister who you haven't even bothered to check on? The one who's literally standing right next to me who you haven't even acknowledged. This isn't about Alba is it?"

But before Ruby could answer, Mike bounded over and yellow carded Perrie.

"WHAT? Are you havin' a laugh? That was a perfectly good tackle!" Dillon's dad called from the stands. At least someone was on her side.

"I'm okay, Ruby. Can we just get on with the game now?" Alba said, looking up at the girls as they continued to glare at each other.

"Yeah." Perrie said, not taking her eyes off this girl.

The rest of the match was dull. Perrie got passed the ball, she lost the ball, that was how it went. She tried to make it look convincing, but she guessed that it just looked lazy.

After the match, they sat in the cafe as the Under-13s celebrated. Nobody was ever going to tell them they won because the Under-16s had been trying to lose. Perrie overheard Alba and Ruby's conversation behind her, as Ruby congratulated Alba. Then she raised her voice, meaning for everyone to hear what she had to say. "The Under-16s might have stood a chance if their captain had shown up."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Pez said, turning round, trying her hardest to avoid an argument.

"Well which word didn't you understand. I'd be happy to explain them to you."

Perrie suddenly realised that Ruby didn't realise the match had been staged for them to lose.

"You think we lost because I wasn't there? Maybe you need your eyes testing."

"You know what I mean. Stop trying to be clever."

"No. I don't know what you mean. I was the captain. We only lost because..." she trailed off. "Because..." she couldn't bring herself to say it in front of everyone here.

"Oh don't worry. We all know why you lost, and you're gonna get thrashed next week at the cup."

"Wow. thanks for those words of encouragement. I forgot how much of an impact you make on the pitch, when you can be bothered to play. How are you goalie skills by the way? I don't think we'll ever win the cup without them." Perrie said back, sarcastically.

Ruby glared for a second and then disappeared outside.

Perrie turned back to her conversation with Dillon and Elliot.

"So, are we going to the match at the weekend?" They both stared at her.

"Ruby's our mate too y'know Pez." Dillon said.

"Yeah, well she's not a friend of mine." when an awkward silence crept in, Elliot responded with, "Yeah, i'm up for going to the match. What teams?"

"Hawkstone and Foxborough Derby this weekend." Dillon replied.

"Your brother playing?" Elliot asked Perrie.

"He's in America with my dad and sister, Gaby."

"Oh right, I was looking forward to seeing where your talent came from." he said laughing.

"Hey! I can play better that that, it was just that Mike told us to throw the game to give the Under-13s confidence."

"What?" said a voice from behind her. It was Alba.