Forever Is Now

Truth Be Told

Alliyah | pov

"Okay girls, it's fitness today since we don't have a complete team," Coach Biles yells with a whistle in her mouth and blows it.

"So just because Mackenzie isn't here, 13 of us suffer," Amira has that usual ugly face she makes any time things don't go her way.

I'm about to answer this girl but Daphne beats me to it. "To play full court you need 14 people. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Also when you weren't here, we went through the same thing." Daphne is not the type of girl to tell anyone off but I'm not complaining.

"And it was a great day," I say to Daphne.

Tiffany just laughs and I wink at her. "Where is she?" She asks as the assistant coach explains burpies to us like we haven't did it a thousand times already.

"No clue, let's get this over and done with. We'll talk after the torture" the HIIT always kicks my ass. I need this day to end now.

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Two hours later, Biles blows her whistle to tell us that practice is over.

"I'm slapping Mack when she comes back. It was brutal," Daphne lies down on the bleachers. We're waiting the boys to finish chasing each other for a ball.

From the corner of my eye, I see Valerie walk up to us and I already know it's going to be a long wait.

Noel quickly moves to sit next to me and leans closer to me, "If she's coming, the other one is not far behind."

I know she's talking about Monica and I don't have the energy, after the practice we had. She's going to have to keep the nonsense to a minimum, especially since Kenzie is not here to defend herself or hold me back.

"Hey guys," Valerie says as she sits down next to Tiffany. We all say hi and she immediately gets into a conversation with Tiffany.

"Maybe it will be normal, like no bullshit," I whisper back to Noel and not 5 seconds later, Monica is making her way to us.  "Spoke too soon,"

"Hello ladies, you guys look terrible how bad was practice?" Monica sits by Daphne.

Daphne gets up and hugs her friend and says, "It was difficult. Ran more times than I can remember," quickly going back to laying down.

Tiff claps her hands "The boys are done, we can get going," she says.

Ivan walks towards us, after showering with this teammates. "Mack still not here?" He asks the group, while Luther, Micheal and Shawn wait for us at the bottom of the bleachers.

Noel answers him, "No why?" We all walk off the bleachers and meet the boys.

"Wayne ditched practice. I saw him talking to the coach and then dipped," Ivan responds and hungs his arm on Noel's shoulders, getting his hand slapped away by Shawn.

Micheal being just as slow as Tiff is, asks "Should we call them?" Already pulling out his phone.

"Nahhh, if something was wrong they would have called by now," I quickly cover them.

A few people in this group are still oblivious to what's going between Kenzie and Wanye. I don't want to say anything, it's not my place.

"What do we do about little bitch over there?" Noel points to Monica who is walking ahead of us with Daphne and Micheal.