Her Eyes

12. Mate

Alexa's POV

I hadn't seen Leah much at all over the past 3 days. We had exchanged a few fleeting glances across the lunch hall or in the changing rooms but we were never alone. I'm not sure if this was just coincidental or if Leah had been avoiding me.

It was now match day -1 and we were out training in the afternoon ahead of our match against Norway. Alex was firing in balls as we practiced corners and I noticed Leah bent over with her hands on knees and ass out preparing to jump in. For a split second I pictured all sorts of filthy things we could do in that position but quickly snapped my attention back to football, get a grip Alexa.

Rachel and Lucy were getting on the end of almost every ball and I wanted to show myself off to Sarina so readied myself for the next ball coming in. I leapt up and managed to just get my head to it, firing it into the top corner right over Mary's hands. My celebration was quickly cut short as I came crashing down to the ground with someone on top of me. It was Leah's body on top of me.. obviously. As she held herself up on her forearms, our faces were inches from each other. I could feel the weight of her body, her heavy breathing and could see her eyes dart to my lips. I really had to stop myself from kissing her then and there on the grass.

Suddenly, aware of all the girls around us, Leah laughed and pulled us to our feet "Sorry mate!"

Mate? I mean technically we were mates but it felt like there was so much more between us already, what about in the shower the other day? I tried not to let it bother me as we finished up the training session but the word kept floating around in my brain.. mate.

We all had a quick shower and then filed into the movie room for tactical training. After a couple of hours reviewing the footage of the Austria match and analysing Norways' formation we were all mentally tired but ready for the match the next day.

After the coaching staff had left we lounged around chatting about all sorts, I was sat on the floor between Alessias legs, her arms lazily hung round my neck.

"How long have you been single then Alexa" asked Lucy as we caught up

"Asking for you are you Luce?" Kiera joked nudging her girlfriend in the side

"Haha uh it's been about a year since me and my ex broke up" I replied, very aware of Leah sat opposite me as the girls listened in

"Was your ex a girl?" asked Chloe

"Yeah, she was my first girlfriend, we had been together since we were 17" I replied looking down as I felt pretty awkward talking about this here

Sensing my awkwardness Tooney jumped in "Ready to get back out there then ay Oakes? We can find you a blonde bombshell"

I just laughed in response but then Jill piped in
"You two would make a fit couple" nodding at me and Alessia with her arms draped over me.

"Oooh Alessia and Alexa has a nice ring to it" joked Tooney

"Yeah yeah" I replied as Alessia just laughed and blushed

The conversation moved on from me but I noticed Leah hadn't looked up to make eye contact with me since that joke. My attention perked up when Leah was asked what her type was.

"You're a nosey lot aren't you?" she joked as she bit her lip and thought for a second, god she looked good when she did that.

"Uhh they would need to be family oriented, passionate, kind, understanding of my focus on football... looks wise I'm not too picky but I love green eyes, tanned skin, maybe tattoos" she added

"God not asking for a lot are ya Leah" laughed Kiera

I tried not to blush as Leah pretty much described me, apart from the tattoos. Georgia caught my eye and looked at me knowingly.
God this girl is so confusing she has hardly looked at me all day, called me mate and then described me as her perfect type?!

Authors note

Heya sorry I've been away but I'm back at it now. I find the head fuck of a girl being hot then cold quite easy to write I feel like we've all been there 😂