Try Me || Erling Haaland

Chapter Six

Erling had just challenged me to play a game of football against him. But me being me, I couldn't leave it there.

"Actually, I have a proposal," I announced as I held my finger up. They all looked at me in anticipation.

"Go on..." Jack encouraged, wanting to know what I was going to say. 

"You give me enough time to have some training and then we play with an audience. Both the men's and women's teams," I proposed with a mischievous smile. 

Erling looked at me for a few seconds as he pondered about what I had just said. He bit back a smile as he nodded his head silently.

"Deal," He finally responded. 

"Deal," I repeated with a smirk. 

♡

Yesterday was an extremely busy day. Monday's were always my busiest days of the week, consumed entirely by university and rugby. I had been in uni from 9am until 6pm and had to speed to rugby training straight afterwards in the evening. 

I would always try and get as much work done as possible on Monday's as I didn't have much time throughout the rest of the week because of rugby. 

By the time I was finishing university on Monday's, it would already be pitch black outside, I'd be hungry and I'd be rushing to get to training. Every single week. I would treat myself to a McDonald's after Monday training sessions as I'd never have chance to eat beforehand, but that's something that nobody from my team needed to know about. 

Training was getting more intense, especially with it being the last session before our first game. Usually training was fun and light, but everyone was feeling the pressure.

The week had flown by since Sunday's game, it was already Tuesday.

"Ten more seconds!" Ben, our instructor shouted to me.

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning we had strength and conditioning sessions, Ben would push us as hard as he could to ensure we were the strongest we could be. He would focus on us all individually and make us unique plans for what we needed to focus on, depending on our positions.

I was doing a weighted plank, with 20kg worth of weighted plates stacked on my back. It was even worse than it sounded.

"Hurry up!" I panted, my arms and legs starting to burn.

"I can't make time go faster," Ben laughed as he continued to count down.

"Try," I said in a strained voice. He had finally reached the final second and I felt the weights being removed from my back.

I let my body fall flat on the floor, spread out on my stomach like a starfish.

"Get up," Ben chuckled, as he prepared to move me onto my next exercise.

"Just leave me here," I groaned.

The alarm rang which signalled the end of the hour long session.

"Lucky escape," He shouted in my direction as he walked across the room to stop the alarm.

I stood up as quickly as I could, ready to leave before he forced me to do something like an upside down squat. Sounded like something he'd do, he's insane. Who enjoys exercise?

♡

My phone pinged as I got in my car. 

From: Chloe

Coming training today? 2:00pm

To: Chloe

Only if we can go for a milkshake before 2:01pm