Journey

25

Jucinara's POV

"It's so cold." I say as I shiver while myself and the ladies I'm with walk to our car after we did some last minute shopping at the Nike place in the NorthPark Mall in Dallas.

It's the last international window of the year and we're in Dallas ahead of our first friendly which is against Switzerland on the Friday after the American holiday of Thanksgiving.

Myself and the ladies I'm with went to the Nike Place to shop because the national team is doing a charity American flag football tournament tomorrow so we needed to get stuff for it.

"Oh my god." I hear Crystal say. "Juice you have icicles on your hair."

"Aww." I say. "That means their gonna melt on me in the car."

"Here." Talia says then she gets the icicles out of my hair.

"Thank you." I say then I hug my best friend.

"Welcome." Talia says then she looks at Nalu. "At least Nalu's warn."

I may or may not have bought Nalu a coat to wear.

She'll need it for the birthday trip I have planned for Christen in December.

"I'm glad she likes the coat." I say as we reach the cars.

"Where to for dinner?" Alyssa asks.

On my team for the charity American flag football tournament is Alyssa, Catarina, Sam, Tierna, Tobin, Crystal, Talia, and myself.

"Can we get in the cars and decide?" I ask. "I'm freezing."

Everyone nods so Tobin, Myself, Sam, and Talia put our stuff in the trunk and get into our car while Alyssa, Catarina, Tierna, and Crystal do the same in their car.

Once we're in the car, with me, Nalu, and Talia sitting in the back, all of us search for restaurants around here and eventually decide to go to a mexican food place called Meso Maya Comida y Copas.

After we decide where to eat, Tobin pulls out of the parking lot and heads to the restaurant.

"Snuggle with Nalu time." I say then Talia and I wrap our arms around Nalu and hold her.

"Aww." Sam says.

"So how are the twins T?" Tobin asks.

"They're good." Talia says with a smile. "Amy said she just dropped them of with A. J. in LA."

"I guess they're spending thanksgiving with my favorite criminal minds character?" Sam ask.

"We weren't planning on them spending the holidays in LA, but A. J.'s husband called me and said A. J. was having a hard couple of weeks so Amy, Xena, Lanie, and Axel flew on a private plane to LA so that A. J. could be with the kids and hopefully cheer up."

"Amy?" Tobin says.

"She and Xena are having Thanksgiving with Amy's family in the LA area."

"Oh."

"Why did we have to switch around the teams we play this international window?" I ask.

We were supposed to play Switzerland first then Norway, but for some reason we play Norway then Switzerland now.

"Apparently things got mixed up with Canada, Switzerland, and Norway so now we've flipped the opponent." Tobin says.

"So I guess both us and Canada had Switzerland then Norway on the schedule?" I ask.

"Yeah." Talia says as we pull up to Meso Maya Comida y Copas.

After we're parked, we wait for the other four members of our party then, when they arrive, the 8 of us and Nalu head inside and get a table.