Age Is Just a Number

Chapter 6: Aren't you a lesbian?

"Welcome to tryouts ladies, I'm Coach Corcoran. The girls soccer team at Barden hasn't had the best reputation over the years but we're going to change that this year. Today we will be testing your speed, agility and of course ball control." Coach Corcoran was a new faculty member at Barden High, probably because he looked like he had just stepped out of college. He was tall and rather muscular built, he had a handsomely chiseled face, stubble across his chin and short blonde hair. In other words, all the girls were drooling over him, all the girls apart from Beca of course (who as we know, is the closeted lesbian of the girls trying out.)

"I'd bang him any day of the week." Beca almost jumped out of her skin once somebody whispered into her ear. The girl looked over her shoulder to find a much taller but familiar brunette with her hair braided to one side smiling down at her.

"Eh, he's okay I guess?" Beca replied with a shrug, trying to focus on what Coach Corcoran was saying but instead the girl behind her stepped forward so she was by her side. The shorter girl looked up at her, where had she seen her before?

"Are you blind?" She asked incredulously in a hushed tone and Beca just wanted oh so dearly to reply with 'No, gay.' Then it hit her, a light bulb lit up in her head. She knew she had seen the girl somewhere, she was in some of her classes!

"Hey, you're Stacie right?" Beca whispered, unfolding her arms to point at the girl.

She nodded. "And you're the smart ass from English aren't you?" She added with a quiet giggle.

"That would be me." Beca was kind of glad she actually kinda knew someone there. The two girls returned their attention back to the man standing before them.

"First of all girls, get yourselves into pairs." Coach Corcoran nodded his head towards the teenagers and they all began to pair up.

Stacie and Beca looked at each other and shrugged, nodding as if to say 'why not?'

"I want you to line up along this line. This drill is going to test your speed, in your pairs you will take turns to sprint to the cones lined up there and back again." Coach Corcoran walked up and down the line of girls, pointing to the cones behind him. "You will run up, run back, tag your partner and they will do the same. You will do this twice each, understand?" He asked as he finally stopped walking back and forth. There was a chorus of 'Yeah's' amongst the girls and Coach Corcoran raised his whistle to his lips. "On my whistle ladies."

Beca had decided between her and Stacie that she would go first. When the whistle was blown, Beca was off like a flash. Yeah she was taking double the strides to match some of the other girls but she was damn fast, being the first to tag her partner.

"Nice work." Coach Corcoran smiled as he stopped behind Beca, making her turn around. "You and Conrad are the only seniors trying out and I'll be needing a captain." He smirked before walking away.

The rest of tryouts were a success for Beca and Stacie, both of them earning a lot of praise from Coach. It wasn't only that, the two girls were beginning to form a bond, mostly realising that they shared a similar sense of humour which had them laughing at the same thing. They also wouldn't shut up, they just kept gabbering on with each other and that continued when they were in the locker room, getting changed back into their uniform (A white shirt/blouse with the school's logo on it, a maroon necktie with the logo on it and unfortunately for the seniors, the school's blazer. Beca was glad she could still get away with her black skinny jeans though.)

"So do you think you've made the team?" Stacie asked. Beca was buttoning up her school blouse when she turned around to face Stacie but unfortunately coming face to face with a sight that she didn't really expect: Stacie was only in her underwear, shimmying her skirt up her legs. Beca had never noticed before but Stacie was pretty hot. Okay sue her for finding someone attractive! God, why did she have to be the only lesbian in a locker room full of straight girls?