"I'll just be goalie"
I heard her say as she realized she was the last one standing to be picked.
"It's volleyball ain't no goalie"
She turned her head towards the teacher repeating herself once more,
He held the clipboard tighter in his forearm as he wrote, glancing in her direction before his eyes focused on what he was writing,
"That's next week but I have you down as goalie, Portia. "
"Go ahead and join Kentrell's team, please."
I watched as she faced forward before her eyes landed on me and then on the captain of the other team, mouthing to herself, I saw my name pass across her lips a couple of times.
I made sure to maintain eye contact and I saw her slightly point in my direction, with a squint of her eyes, she mouthed directly to me,
"Kentrell?"
I nodded as discretely as I could and she too nodded as she came closer to my side of the gym, before she joined the line, she walked right up to me before passing me,
"I'll do my best"
We nodded at each other and she disappeared into the ranks behind me.
