Past Memories

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Emma's POV
We celebrated Alex birthday to a minimum this morning and now we are in the locker room for the match against England. We have warmed up and are about to line up in the tunnel

I'm standing behind Alex as we slowly start to walk out. When we finally can start the match England has a really good chance in the 3 minute but I managed to get a hand on it giving them a corner that went to no where

Kelley now has the ball on the right side and are searching for the cross. She get to the end line but managed to get a pretty good cross into the box and on the back post Christen comes running heading us into the lead. As she's looking up into the sky I think everyone know she wish her mom was here but she sadly past not to long ago

Unfortunately for us they get a goal just 9 minutes later and their was no way I was going to get a hand on redirected ball from Ellen White.

It's now the 31 minute and we are owning this game when Lindsay send a perfect cross that lands right on Alex head who just head in past the keeper with out any problems but what's most funny to me it's she celebration and the reference to her joke with Kelley and Allie. That's the tea

And let me tell you. The rest of the match was in tense but I managed to keep the balls out. Until the 79 minute when one of their forwards get taken down right in front of goal and after 5 minutes of VAR reviewing the referee point at the penalty spot.

My heart jumped out of my chest right then and there but a tried to look as calm as possible when they placed the ball on the spot. I studied her as much as I could but when the ref blow her whistle I still hadn't one clue so I did what every keeper would have done. I took a chance

As soon as her foot hit the ball I dove to my right seeing that it's my best side and man I got lucky because I can see the ball going right into my gloves and as soon as I feel it I curl up to a ball wanting to be sure that I actually saved it

I soon feel teammates patting my back and saying how good it was. So I get up on my feet before I boot the ball up field. The only thing that happens after my save was that England got a red car but with only about 5 minutes left it didn't do to much of a change

I had just caught the ball when the referee blew her whistle. I shot the ball straight up in the air before celebrating with my teammates. We had just made it to the final in a world championship. We didn't celebrate to long because it isn't over yet.

Everyone made their way into the changing room and got ready for the trip back to the hotel. The buss ride was filled with laughs and bad jokes from Kelley and Sonnett. Even Carli and Becky laugh at some of them

When we get to the hotel we do recovery and then eat some dinner and at the end of dinner you can really feel how tired everyone is but lucky for us the final is played in Lyon and we are already here so we just have to prepare ourselves as good as we can for the game against either Sweden or the Netherlands. They are playing tomorrow so after that we know

I make my way to my room and start to get ready for bed and when I have brushed my teeth and put on a par of sweatpants and fall flat on my bed passing out with in a few seconds but what feels like five minutes later I'm woken up my a light knock on the door so I groan as I get up and open the door still half asleep and to my surprise Alex is standing on the other side. Am I really surprised tho?

"I can't sleep and Kelley is out like a light so can I come in" She ask really cutely if I say it myself

"How can I say no to you" I open my arms so she can step into them before I close the door behind her and we walk over to the bed. As we get under the covers she snuggle into me

A faint "Love you" can be heard before she is fast asleep in my arms. I kiss her head before I let sleep over take me too

The next morning might have been one of the best mornings in a while. I wake up with Alex still in my arms and fast asleep so I play with her hair for a bit until she starts to move

"Good morning love" I say in a soft voice placing a kiss on her cheek

"Good morning babe" She answer in that hot morning voice anyone would fall in love with. "I could get used to this"

"Sleeping with me"

"Yea and especially waking up in your arms" She place a small kiss on my lips before we go back to cuddle. We spend the first hour of our day just cuddling and talking in bed while I run my fingers through her hair.

We then decide to take showers and get ready before going to grab breakfast. So she walked back to her room while I got in the shower and started to get ready.

We meet up in the lobby 30 minutes later and made the 10 minute walk to a nearby cafe. I ordered for both of us before also paying for everything which Alex wasn't a fan of but didn't argue

We eat as we had some small talks and 1 hour later we made our way back to the hotel through the streets of Lyon. When we got to the hotel we just watched a movie in my room until it was lunch. Which was a team activity so everyone meet up in the lobby and we went out.

Lunch was good. Except that Lindsay and I had to do all the talking but after lunch Jill had planned some activity so we made our way back to the hotel and in to the conference room before we were sat down

"Okey. So now that everyone is here let me tell you what we're doing. I thought this would be something fun to do. So today we are going to take DNA tests and then send them into a lab and we will get them back at the next camp or victory tour depending on how the final goes. And just to set it straight we are watching the game tonight between Sweden and the Netherlands"

And with that some guy told us what to do so we all did that and almost two hours later we were sitting down to watch the other semifinal