Playing The Risk - Book One in The WSU Series

- Chapter Forty-Nine -

"You have seven days!" Coach yells, "all your hard-working is leading up to this!"

I have to win this.

"You have seven days to get your shit together!"

My dad called me yesterday— one hour that phone call lasted. One hour of my life I will never get back.

"I don't have to tell you how much this game means" he rants down the phone, "I know." I sigh, I'm so tired.

I'm tired of missing Ele.

I'm tired of thinking she'll come back to me.

I'm just so fucking tired of feeling tired all the damn time.

"Coach Marshall has told me you're playing better." All the anger I feel towards Ele— how much she hurt me I've been using all that energy towards football.

That's why I'm playing better— not because I'm finally single again, but because I'm furious.

"I see you've finally broken up with that girl" he spits it out, "I told you— no good comes from it. All they want is your money." He reminds me, "she was  never with me for my money." I remind him, Ele was with me because she liked me.

"Did she break your heart?" I can hear the sarcasm in his voice, "actually dad" I take a pause, "she did."

"Love is a fool's game." Was it? Love. I did love Eleonora Gomez. I still do. Does she know that? No. I fall back onto my bed, glancing over to my clock to see that it's currently 10:09pm meaning it was 01:09am for him in New York. "I'm gonna head to bed." Hoping he'll get my hint, "fucking win." That's the last thing I hear before hanging up.

Fucking win.

His words echo through my mind. I had seven days to get my head in place. Despite me not being with Ele I'm still thinking about her. Like what did she eat for breakfast this morning? Is she watching a movie with the girls now? After practice is over and I'm changed I head towards my car not waiting for the boys. My emotions are everywhere. I'm angry at everyone and anything.

"You know if you're gonna be angry at least tell us why." I hear Hayden yell before jogging up beside me. "I'm not angry." He laughs knowing I'm lying. "You gotta work up on your lying skills," Kian teases. He's currently leaning on the hood of his car while Alex has already left. "You'd know about lying." His family hasn't gotten to where they are today without telling a few lies.

"Have I ever lied to you?" No.

"You haven't?" I grab my keys before opening the door of my jeep, "I've never lied to you." I hear Kian say before his car door opens and slams close. "Can you not piss him off for once?" Hayden gets in the passenger seat next to me throwing me a look, "don't start."

"So, summer plans?" I think to myself— summer. It's in less than two months. "Fuck knows." Normally my family drags me away to spend some quality time, this year I'm sensing it'll be different. Everything going on with my parents and football— a vacation seems like a great idea. Just not with them. "I'm thinking Spain." Hayden says out loud, "isn't your brother currently playing in Spain." I glance over quickly to see his facial expression harden, "okay," he chuckles, "I'll pass on Spain."