Scarlett was a 16 year old girl from Leeds, she had one older brother called Liam who she was really close with. Liam was 19 and lived in an apartment in Manchester for uni. Scarlett lived with her mum and her dad lived down the street. Her parents split when she was little so she has basically always known them apart but still has find memories of them all together!
Scarl plays for Leeds untied firsts and she has just finished her GCSEs. She lives a 20 min drive from school so her mum picks her up most days.
"Hey kid, how was school?" Julie said.
"Ye it was alri, bit boring but lunch was good"
"Awww glad to hear, your training stuff is in the boot so we will take you there straight away" Julie said and scarl nodded as they drove off. It was a 1hour drive to the training ground where scarlet trained for 2 hours.
After training when she was about to leave her coach Matt asked to speak to scarlett and her mum
"Look, I've had a call from a coach who is interested in signing you if you happy to chat about it. His name is Gareth taylor and he's the Man City women's first team manager" Matt said with a massive smile and Scarlett couldn't believe it
"Wait - what?!?" She screamed and Julie and Matt smiled
"So he's asked if you could go up to Manchester tomorrow and meet with him?" Matt said and scarlet agreed straight away, they chatted about logistics of it and how she will get there tomorrow and her mum quickly booked the day off work, they drive home exited telling eachtoher all the things that might happen the following day.
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The next dah they were up bright and early to head down to Manchester. Scarlett was wearing a Nike tracksuit which her mum had tried to get her to change but she refused cos apparently "comfort is key" ! They took the 4 hours drive down and got to Manchester at about midday.
They parked in the CFA and they both sat their speechless. Scarlett couldn't believe that herself, a 16 year old kid was about to walk into one of the best clubs in English football to talk about her career with them. Her brother Olly had drive down from his uni which was close by to come with them and met them in the car park.
"Hey superstar" Olly laughed and Scarlett ran into his arms as they all joked about how surreal this is for them. They walked through the doors and he's the stood there waiting.
He was a tall man with dark hair and a friendly smile, he put out his hand for them all to shake and led them through, what only Scarlett could describe as Disneyland for footballers, into a large office with a big window looking over the academy stadium - the women's first team pitch.
Scarlett sat on the chair in between her mum and brother and opposite Gareth and they began to talk.
"So, Scarlett, this must be very exiting and surreal for you right now" Gareth smiled and Scarlett nodded "don't be scared, so I've kept a tan on yoh the past 3 seasons and your development has been amazing to see, the goals and play that you've scored and created this season has been incredible, your such a creative player for your age. At only 16 you are faster than a large proportion of the players here at the women's club. Your football and ability to read the game is way ahead of your age and it's Great to see. Anyway instead of boosting your ego too high (!) ive decided with help of some of the staff that we would love to give you a co tract for the up coming season with our first team here at Manchester City." Scarlett sat there speachless and looked at Olly who smiled and nodded, scarl went back to looking at Gareth and nodded
"Yes 100% yes, this is a dream come true. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity" Julie smiled at her baby girl who seemed to be the happiest she's seen her in her life!
They sorted out the deals and signed papers and where Scarlett was going to live. Olly shared a flat with some uni friends but the block opposite his building (where some of the city players live) had an apartment going so they decided she would live there. There was a player from the Man City boys academy who needed a place to stay aswell who was 1 year older than Scarlett which they decided they can flat share. They drive back to Leeds to pack up Scarlett a stuff and in a matter of hours she was back in her flat in Manchester.
"This is scary" scarl whispered as she walked through the door
"Yes, but it's your dream, and your living it" Olly smiled and she nodded, they put up her bed and her bedside tables and put her clothes in the fitted wardrobes. Scarlett put up some LED lights as Julie went to the shops to get cutlery and plates for her to use.
"I'm really scared Ol" Scarlett say sitting down on the bed
"I know you are, so am I scarl. You will do amazing, I'll visit you all the time and I'm only a 5 min walk away. Love you kid your making everyone so proud" Olly said and hugged her and scarl nodded and wiped away a tear.
"How come dad didn't come down?" Olly asked and scarl shrugged "work I guess like always" and Olly nodded a little disappointed.
They soon left Scarlett to settle in. She had tomorrow off and then she needed to start training on the Wednesday.
Scarlett sat on her bed as there was a knock on the door and she went to answer it.
"Hi I'm jack, your flat mate" he said and put out his hand for scarlet to shake. She did so but coukdnt stop thinking of how fit he was.
He was a 6ft boy with brown curly hair, he was muscly and physically fit with legs which had solid muscle on that you could see as he was wearing grey joggers shorts, he was carrying two bags of clothes and he hid tan stood out amount his white T-shirt.
"Come on in, I'm Scarlett by the way" she said and jack smiled as he put his bags in his room and sat at the breakfast bar that they had, Scarlett stood at the door and closed it as she looked at jack
"We'll come on, order some food and we will get to know eachtoher" he smiled and scarlet nodded and they started laughing about what food to order.
